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more of fighting, revisionist, visionist, less adoptive, deductive and tries tomaintain purity.In reality, post colonial African states have largely remained revisionistand have had the inclination of being influenced by a certain ideological myth.African indigenous political ideology is, however, definable and one of itsproperties has been consolidation against colonial domination. A strongantipathy to colonialism, neocolonialism, and even their present facets isdiscernable through out the whole of African continent. In this sense, Africa islikely to be nationalistic, and this type of nationalism has been understood ascommon ideology allover the continent. This ideology, African nationalism,reflects the quest of creating an independent position of the continent ininternational system. Ideological terms like anti colonialism, dependencytheory, overcoming underdevelopment and the like too have been commonlanguages for Africa.OAU had functioned on the basis that all the member states respect eachother’s state sovereignty, and enter with this faith into the international politicalplatform individually as an active part of the Organization. The existence of theOrganization itself was considered as a guarantee for the success of a singleAfrican ideology which was labeled as Africanism, Pan-Africanism.13.3 Political DeterminantsIn post colonial SSA, there was an absence of strict criteria fordesignating long-term national interests. All effort was thus directed towardssecuring integrity and sovereignty of the newly emerged states in the face ofinternal and external threats.Hence, decisions which were related to foreign policy goals andinternational relations were considered as a mater of ad hoc business, which inturn evoked absence of political consistency and growing disagreements amongelites.Mono party system together with one man dominated political regimeran the whole state affairs with out opposition. This behavior was typical to thenew states of SSA, where the leaders had enormous influenced major activitiesincluding the essence of international politics and international relations.The study of political determinants of foreign policy is inseparablemainly from economic and cultural determinants of foreign policy. A decision,which is considered as pure political, could as well be an expression ofeconomics or culture in a certain condition.192