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African Unification Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Erasmus H. Kloman Jr
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The numerous unification efforts now under way in Africa represent one of the most significant developments in the brief post-independence era of that continent. Freedom has brought withit increased recognition in many African quarters of the interdependence of the African statesand the need for unified approaches to common problems. The new countries together with the handful of older independent African states have nearly all become involved in one or more of theintensified drives toward some form of integration. Paradoxically, the issue of how to achieveunity is becoming one of the principal divisions between African states.

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International Organization , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Spring 1962 , pp. 387 - 404
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1962

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* Marcum, John, “How Wide is the Gap between Casablanca and Monrovia?” Africa Report, 01 1962Google Scholar; “West Africa: Now Freedom,” The Economist, January 20, 1962; Gareau, Frederick H., ”Bloc Politics in West Africa,” Orbis, Winter, 1962Google Scholar; and Jackson, Barbara, “Free Africa and the Common Market,” Foreign Affairs, 04 1962Google Scholar. The weekly magazine West Africa published in London carries numerous articles dealing with this subject.