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Power Politics in Africa

Nigeria and South Africa in Comparative Perspective

Edited By: Olusola Ogunnubi, Samuel Oyewole

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This collection examines power politics in Africa, focusing on the strategies of regional powers like Nigeria and South Africa. It contrasts the struggle for hegemony with pan-African solidarity, contributing a vital African perspective to a largely Eurocentric field.

This collection of essays examines the subject of power politics in Africa, paying special attention to the interests of African regional powers, as well as…

This collection of essays examines the subject of power politics in Africa, paying special attention to the interests of African regional powers, as well as their capabilities and strategies in the international arena. It provides a theoretical bridge between concerns for militarised national interest, perpetual distrust and insecurity, struggles for power and hegemony in power politics, and the spirit of pan-African solidarity, brotherhood, consensus, cooperation and integration. It is on these bases that this volume offers rich empirical insight into leading regional powers in Africa with special attention given to Nigeria and South Africa. It serves to contribute African perspectives to the field of International Relations, particularly regarding power politics, which is important in terms of Africanising the narratives of a subject matter that is largely considered as Eurocentric in African and other non-Western societies.

Olusola Ogunnubi is a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and a Visiting Scholar at Carleton University, Canada. His research has focused on themes related to power dynamics of Africa’s regional powers (namely South Africa and Nigeria), and he is particularly interested in the intersection between soft power, foreign policy and hegemony.

Samuel Oyewole is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria, and a PhD candidate at North-West University, South Africa. His research has focused on emerging development and security challenges, and opportunities, in Africa, as well as how major actors in the region can design appropriate policy strategies, annex their potentials and utilise relevant capabilities.