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The Party’s political stance emphasised social and economic reform; greater Arab unity through a form of Pan-Arabism and the recognition of the relationship between Islam and Arabism. Essentially, it was a quasi-Marxist socialist party committed to a nationalised, redistributive economic system based on the principle of ‘socialist nationalism’ but which was to be strongly associated with an Arab identity. Class antagonism would replace previous social animosities between Arab peoples based on regionalism, sectarianism or tribalism; elements which had rendered Arab society vulnerable to imperialism and exploitation.
The degree to which those desires are informed by a strong Islamic heritage and cultural commonalities, or by reasons of contemporary socio-economic imperative and demands for access to resources courtesy of the Organisation of Islamic Conference will be issues pursued further in the following chapter. At this stage we must reassess the important historical factors which serve to combine the past with the present and influence the contemporary debate. CONCLUSION The Islamic/African connection is perversely both easy to chart but more difficult to assess.
Whether the interests of Muslim Africans could be identified as being the same as non-Muslim Africans is difficult to answer. The communities were essentially schooled in a very different tradition and at times Islamic Africans were blatantly regarded as backward. Northern Nigeria was 20 THE I SLAMIC/AFRICAN CONNECTION readily regarded by some political leaders as ‘dragging behind’ when it came to ‘Western European civilisation’, and militating against any quest for national unity (Akintola and Balewa 1965).