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6 - Embracing the Globe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2012

Brenda Gayle Plummer
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Just as the Congo crisis cast a pall over earlier optimism about independent Africa, the Nigerian civil war heightened the pessimism in official circles. Only five years after the exhilaration of 1960, the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate took a dim view of the African states. Lagging growth “in most areas will be very slow; indeed, setbacks are probable in a number of countries,” the report noted. “There is a desperate shortage of virtually all kinds of technical and managerial skills; indeed, the basic institutions and staff for economic development are often inadequate or absent. Moreover, it is highly unlikely that most African countries will obtain external assistance or investment on anything approaching the scale required for sustained economic development.” Loy Henderson, retired but still prominent, regarded many African nations as “mini-states,” “so insignificant” that they hardly merited a consulate. It was cheaper, however, to name ambassadors to them and spare the cost to the departmental budget that appointing a regional ambassador, traveling frequently and required to entertain lavishly, would entail.

Fourteen months later, a State Department task force charged with reviewing Africa policy remained dismissive. It declared that Washington’s “primary concern with Africa has been, and will continue to be for some time, to prevent events in the continent from complicating a search, largely conducted elsewhere, for solutions to the problems of war and peace, or from interfering with our central strategic and political preoccupations in other regions.” The ethnic tensions then overtaking Nigeria would be of no great concern unless they had the potential to affect matters in areas of greater interest to policy makers.

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In Search of Power
African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974
, pp. 200 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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  • Embracing the Globe
  • Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book: In Search of Power
  • Online publication: 05 December 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139149396.007
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  • Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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  • Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book: In Search of Power
  • Online publication: 05 December 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139149396.007
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