Africa is now the main repository of lingering illusions about the extent of the great powers’ influence – illusions that feed on the visible weakness and, often, disarray of its small new states. The communist powers, not content to await the African swing into their camp that their dogma proclaims to be inevitable, are toiling to hasten it. Western thinking about Africa is recurrently apt to drift into single channel of consideration of how to stop…..the continent going communist. The new african states are now divided but the Monrovia and Casablanca groups have an essentially common goal: to stand Africa in its own feet. The lesson for the white outsider is neither to try to make Africans take sides, nor to take side oneself when they are divided, but to support wherever possible their efforts to unite.
