The author’s interest in Africa’s relations with India goes back to his doctoral thesis at Oxford University, published under the title of Towards a Pax Africana . The impact of India upon twentieth century Africa has a special place for Gandhi’s strategies of civil disobedience and Nehru’s principle of nonalignment. Gandhi’s satyagraha (soul force) inspired African political figures as diverse as Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli of South Africa and Ivorian president Houphouet-Boigny. Nehru’s ideas about what used to be called “positive neutralism” helped to shape African approaches to foreign policy in the entire post-colonial era. The essay, published almost two decades ago, explored these historical dimensions in this prescient analysis.

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甘地和尼赫鲁之间的非洲

作者对非洲与印度关系的兴趣可以追溯到他在牛津大学的博士学位论文，该论文的标题为“走向非洲”。印度对20世纪非洲的影响在甘地的公民抗命战略和尼赫鲁的不结盟原则中占有特殊的位置。甘地的萨塔格拉哈（satyagraha）（灵魂力量）启发了非洲政治人物，其中包括南非的诺贝尔奖获得者阿尔伯特·卢图利（Albert Luthuli）和科特迪瓦总统胡普·胡埃·波尼（Houphouet-Boigny）。尼赫鲁关于过去所谓的“积极中立主义”的思想有助于在整个后殖民时代塑造非洲的外交政策方法。这篇论文发表于将近20年前，它在这种先验分析中探索了这些历史维度。