“It is no longer under the orbit of any extra-continental power.” Nigeria
In 1948, after the Nationalist Party took over the affairs of South Africa, attempts to define segregation came into play. In what would become South Africa’s darkest reign of terror, the Apartheid evoked sentiments that would later alter the mental capacity of the black majority in the African nation.
The new laws gave the police the power to detain at will and for months. Thus, the laws made it made possible for the easy detainment of a black man in prison without a hearing. Another way in which the Nationalist Party subjugated the minority was to introduce a system where the minority was entitled to 1 doctor per 44,000 as opposed to 1 to 400 for the white minority. Angered by this, the Nigerian government set up a “Relief Fund” in partnership with the Southern Africa Relief Fund which will see through to ensuring that the educational and welfare needs of the blacks were gotten.
“Africa has come of age. It is no longer under the orbit of any extra-continental power. It should no longer take orders from any country, however powerful. The fortunes of Africa are in our hands to make or mar. For too long we have been kicked around. For too long we have been treated like adolescents who cannot discern their interests and act accordingly. For too long it has been presumed that the African needs outside ‘experts’ to tell him who are his friends and who are his enemies.
After Nelson Mandela was sentenced to death, Nigeria’s first speaker of House of Representatives and first Minister of Foreign Affairs in Nigeria, Jaja Wachukwu, used his established strong relations as the first Ambassador and Paramount Representative of Nigeria to the United Nation to overturn the death penalty of Mandela and 12 other freedom fighters to life imprisonment. This is asides Nigeria’s attempt to grant asylum to Mandela.
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