ABSTRACT:
The growing challenges of economic and social development in Nigeria provide impetus for policy makers to readdress some of the nation’s policies against the realities of a competitive global political economy. In this paper, Dr. Sanubi using the current policy focuses of the Yar’Adua/Goodluck administration, assesses the relevance of the country’s African-centred foreign policy and challenges its continuity against a new inside-out theoretical framework. It recommends to Nigerian policy makers to put the economic diplomacy at the forefront of its foreign policy to reflect the internal realities of the Nigerian developmental challenges rather than window-dressing them in a frivolous, yet expensive, big-brother African-centered foreign policy.
