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Adekeye Adebajo Quotes

Adekeye Adebajo is a Nigerian scholar of international relations, political scientist and Pan-African intellectual whose work focuses on African peace and security, regional integration, conflict resolution, the United Nations, Nigeria–South Africa relations and Pan-Africanism.

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The role of the public intellectual is particularly important in Africa.

The success of the political and economic integration in Africa thus rests heavily on the shoulders of these two regional Gullivers.

Africa has low trade between its countries 12 per cent, compared to about 60 per cent between the countries in the EU.

If you’re going to have effective regional integration, both countries need to have a vision of what that should look like.

In the area of security, I would say that the UN is more important.

In some areas, the EU may be more important than the United Nations.

The public intellectual is particularly important in Africa, with such individuals having a responsibility to promote a cosmopolitan Pan-Africanism.

Africa to this day, like under every US administration, remains last in the global hierarchy of US foreign policy interest.

Because Nigeria accounts for 70 per cent of West Africa’s economy and South Africa 60 per cent of Southern Africa’s economy.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adekeye Adebajo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.