TY  - JOUR
T1  - Africa’s Encounter with the Arabs and the West: A Retrospection
AU - O. Aje, Oluwatobi AU - Adeoye-Phillips, Tomilola AU - F. Folarin, Sheriff 
JO  - International Journal of Soft Computing
VL  - 14
IS  - 6
SP  - 105
EP  - 113
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9503
DO  - ijscomp.2019.105.113
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2019.105.113
KW  - Africa
KW  -encounters
KW  -Arab world
KW  -the West
KW  -realism
AB  - For a number of reasons, states have come in
contact with one another, both regionally and globally.
The African encounters with both the West and Arab
world in particular can be traced to the slave trade era.
Both encounters ended up in certain fundamental
trajectories (positive and negative) that continue to
underlie Africa’s existence and international development.
The western encounter for example, ended up in the
scramble for African countries and eventual colonization
and artificial creation of boundaries and states. Using
library research method, the paper presents its argument
in a historical and explanatory perspective as it seeks to
provide a critical analogy of these encounters and how it
has brought about development or underdevelopment for
the continent, with a view of identifying adequate (realist)
measures that can be adopted by the continent to
maximize relationship with the outside world. This has
also informed the recommendations and conclusion that
follows.
ER  -