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Ever since the emergence of newly independent African states in the community of nations in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the study of the continent’s external relations has generated a great deal of scholarly attention at each important turn in world politics. In two earlier works, Africa in World Politics and Africa and World Order, respectively, Vernon McKay1 and Norman Padelford and Rupert Emerson2 attempted to capture the significance for world politics in general and for the United Nations(UN) in particular of the coming to political sovereignty of African people. The “rise of Africa in world politics,” it was suggested for a time, might precipitate the decline of the UN. We know that this did not happen. On the contrary, the UN has provided African states with both limited political clout in world affairs due to their numerical advantage and a legal protection that has allowed some weak states to survive in the community of nations despite the odds.3
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Mangala, J. (2010). Introduction. In: Mangala, J. (eds) Africa and the New World Era. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117303_1
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