The African Condition 6: In Seared of Pax Africana by AH Mazrul, Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Africa is the most centrally located of all continents but is politically and militarily the most marginal. How can Africa increase its political leverage on world affairs?
PROFESSOR MAZRUI argues that implicit in the concept of Pax Britannica was the assumption that western powers have special privileges for being armed to the teeth while at the same time disarming the natives. Should Africa, in turn, now pacify the war lords by entering the politics of nuclear power and nuclear proliferation? BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sunday at 6.0 pm on Radio 3, and printed in THE LISTENER dated 13 December)