Nigeria and Southern Africa’s unfinished business: After freedom (Part 2A)

The   part two looks at the period after liberation and considers how the relationship between Nigeria and Southern Africa began to change as the region moved from the struggle for freedom to the challenge of nation-building, development and cooperation.
For decades, Nigeria had wrestled with one overriding question: how could Africa help Southern Africa achieve freedom? By 1994, that question had, at least in its political sense, been answered. Apartheid had been dismantled, Nelson Mandela had become president, liberation movements had been transformed into governments, and countries that had spent generations confronting colonialism and minority rule were entering an entirely differe...