Debate from ROAPE Volume 14 Number 38
Crisis of Hegemonic Decline: US Disinterest in Africa

For the first time in the history of the United Nations Organisation a session in May 1986, was devoted to Africa's Economic Crisis. The session was at the request of the OAU Summit held in July 1985 and its purpose was to mobilise the international community in support of a recovery programme for Africa and to lay the ‘foundation for self-reliant and self-sustaining development of the continent’ .