Was Nigeria’s offering of Asylum status to President Charles Taylor of Liberia a diplomatic blunder? A foreign policy case review

• Main Author: Ngara, Christopher Ochanja
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia Press 2022
• Subjects: JF Political institutions (General)
• Online Access: https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29014/1/JIS%2018%202022%2063-87.pdf; https://doi.org/10.32890/jis2022.18.3; https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29014/; https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/jis/article/view/14444; https://doi.org/10.32890/jis2022.18.3

This paper critically examines the appropriateness or otherwise of the granting of asylum status to former Liberian President, Charles Taylor by the Nigerian government on August 11, 2003. The paper argues that the granting of asylum status to Taylor was consistent with Nigeria’s Afrocentric foreign...