Cyril Obi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/cyril-obi/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cyril Obi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/cyril-obi/ 32 32 Strong Nigeria SA ties vital for Africa https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/strong-nigeria-sa-ties-vital-africa/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/strong-nigeria-sa-ties-vital-africa/ Africa’s become the international investment flavour of the month, says Nigerian academic Cyril Obi. However Pretoria-based Obi says sound Nigeria-South Africa relations are key to Africa really finding its voice. ends intro Cyril Obi, who heads the African Peacebuilding Network programme at the University of Pretoria, says relations between Nigeria and South Africa were strong […]

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]]> Africa’s become the international investment flavour of the month, says Nigerian academic Cyril Obi.
However Pretoria-based Obi says sound Nigeria-South Africa relations are key to Africa really finding its voice.
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Cyril Obi, who heads the African Peacebuilding Network programme at the University of Pretoria, says relations between Nigeria and South Africa were strong when Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obassanjo were at the helm.
He says it’s time to end the rivalry that has grown to  characterise ties between the two continental giants.
Obi proposes the formation of a Nigeria South Africa organisation and says this NISA   could  be Africa’s version of BRICS leading efforts to mainstream the continent and fighting for it at international economic fora.

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