Re-Visiting Nigeria’s African Centre Piece Foreign Policy Debt Amidst South African Xenophobic Attacks

Abstract

Nigeria’s African Centre Piece Foreign Policyngave the country a big name across the globe. South Africans xenophobic attack is a direct consequence and reactions from the apartheid experience. This implies that the big brother role of Nigeria in Africa should be revisited and strengthened more in the current tide of modern diplomacy. Is it suicidal for Nigeria to drop the policy that gave her a global reckoning among the comity of states? Then there are more debts to be paid on the African Centre Piece Foreign Policy in this modern era. Game theory and Rational choice theories are used to explain how Nigeria can overcome the repercussions of diplomatic fallouts.