Nigeria’s increasingly close relationship with France marks a departure from six decades of foreign policy aimed at reducing French influence in West Africa. An increasingly close relationship with a power that has long sought to undermine Nigerian influence in West Africa will benefit only politically connected business elites.

Adekeye Adebajo warns that the country’s embrace of a neocolonial order could leave it weaker, poorer, and isolated.

El inédito acercamiento estratégico de Nigeria a Francia fractura la integración de África Occidental y debilita su liderazgo frente al rechazo al neocolonialismo galo.