ABSTRACT
Despite the increasing interest in the subject of Afro-Arab relations taken by political forces and intellectuals, both Arab and African, and despite some governmental support for efforts to consolidate these relations, the focus is still exclusively on the governmental, and particularly the purely economic aspect. The result is that these relations have come to be, and will continue to be, governed by conditions of world markets and the financial returns of these relations, rather than by the issues of liberation and social change, which have not made any appreciable advance since the era of national independence, dating back to the late 1950s.
