This is a study of Soviet policy in six West African countries:
Ghana, Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. Robert
Legvold analyzes the awakening of Soviet Interest in sub-Saharan
Africa and the growth, problems, and influences of the Soviet
involvement from Ghana's independence in 1957 to 1968.
Those nations are significant not only because they were the
first African colonies to achieve independence and therefore have
had the longest involvement with the Soviet Union, but also because
together they supply illustrations of every problem that Black
Africa poses for an outside nation's foreign policy: from
hypersensitive nationalism to what has been called neo-colonial
dependence; from relative long-term stability to fundamental
instability; from military coups d'etat to civil war.
From the Soviet viewpoint the six countries range from the most
progressive to the most reactionary. Each has had an interesting
relationship with the Soviet Union.
The author considers several basic questions: How has the
Soviet Union coped with the problems and opportunities created by
Black Africa? How have its perceptions of Black Africa evolved
during the first decade of its involvement there? Has policy
shifted correspondingly with changes In these perceptions? Mr.
Legvold explains why Black Africa lay largely ignored for years
while Soviet leaders turned their attention to struggle and
revolution in the Far East and South Asia. He has examined the
Soviet and African press to trace the full evolution of Soviet
attitudes and action in these countries, and has interviewed
Soviet, African, and other officials. He compares Soviet policy as
between one African nation and another, as well as between Africa
and other continents.
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