Headline : Making Nigeria, South Africa Ties Work

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President Bola Tinubu last week joined his counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, for the 11th Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission, BNC, in Cape Town, South Africa, in an effort to address the often troubled relationship between the two African giants.

With Africa as the perennial centrepiece of Nigeria's foreign policy, we have always played the Big Brother role. However, the negative attitudes of many of our continental siblings, particularly South Africans to Nigerian migrants in their country, have forced many Nigerians to wonder aloud if the sacrifices have been worth it.

Nigeria was at the forefront of the fight against Apartheid in South Africa, and for the decolonisation of Southern African between the 1960s and 1990s. In recognition of this, Nigeria was the first foreign country that Dr Nelson Mandela and his then wife, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, visited. When Mandela emerged as President of South Africa in 1994, he also led the continental effort towards the end of Nigeria's military rule and resolution of the political impasse occasioned by the June 12 election annulment.

When General Olusegun Obasanjo, a prominent continental player, was released from prison and later became Nigeria's President in 1999, he and Mandela worked together to give Africa a more respectable image in the global community. Apart from promoting the New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD, Nigeria and South Africa formed their Bi-National Commission in 1999. Relations between the two countries waxed strong until Mandela and Obasanjo left office.

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