ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the analysis on the Arab-Israeli conflict which consumed a considerable amount of time of Africa in search of peace in the Middle East. The central focus of this chapter has been an attempt to debunk the prevailing assumptions that often times assert that Africa observes from the sidelines of world politics. The lengthy and tortuous role played by African states in an attempt to resolve the impasse in the Arab-Israeli conflict of the late 1960s to early 1970s demonstrate that given certain contextual space they can be important if palpable actors in the world stage. The Kinshasa session was attended by six Heads of State and Government from Mauritania, Ethiopia, Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Zaire, as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kenya, Minister for Communications of Tanzania, and the Acting Secretary of State of Liberia.
