A Tale of Two Africas
Mazrui, Ali A. / Karioki, James N.
Nigeria and South Africa provide the socioeconomic and political contrasts in the African condition. Some of these contrasts can be demonstrated in the following dialectics: Nigeria is the Africa of human resources, South Africa is a land of mineral resources, Nigeria is repellant to European settlement, South Africa is a magnet for such settlement, Nigeria is a mono-racial society, South Africa is a multiracial society, Nigeria is grappling w...