The Arabic Language: an Integration and Developmental Tool for The Enhancement of Nigeria's Foreign Policy and Economic Relations
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2015
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ALIMI JOURNAL OF ARABIC STUDIES (AJAS) Volume l, No 2, 2015 Unilorin Press
Abstract
The paper takes a critical look at the position ofthe Arabic language and
the potential benefits it could accrue to national interests if adopted as one of the
languages in which Nigerian representatives are trained before they are
dispatched to Nigerian foreign offices in the Diaspora. It also entails confessions
by foreign diplomats to the inevitability of languages in meaningful international
diplomacy. This is followed by a discussion of the low-level diplomatic and
economic ties which Nigeria is currently maintaining with the Arab world.
Moreover, the impact and the influence of foreign language competence in
business-related activities as well as strategies to be taken by Arabic experts to
strengthen diplomatic ties between Nigeria and Arab countries and measures
which could sustain mutual economic cooperation between them are discussed in
the paper.