Four months ago, a significant new element entered African politics. Leaders of the moderate French-speaking nations, meeting in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, formed the 14-member Organisation Commune Africaine et MalgacheĀthe largest single bloc of nations in Africa. Built around the thriving Western-oriented economy of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's traditional cultural leadership of French Africa, the OCAM represents 36 million Africans spread over one-fifth of the continent. One of its purposes: to offset the radical foreign policies of such hotheads as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, create a new moderate center of gravity for the continent's politics.
New Member. It has...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
