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The task of this paper is to critically appraise the relationship between Nigeria’s national image\udand her foreign policy since independence. In doing this, it embarked on a historical and analytical\udexamination of the contradictions that are embedded in Nigeria’s foreign policy and their fundamental\udlink to the country’s domestic crisis. The article observes that Nigeria’s foreign policy over\udthe years has been grossly sabotaged and undermined by image crisis both nationally and internationally.\udRelying heavily on secondary data, and anchored fundamentally on the role theory as a\udframework of analysis, the paper argues that Nigeria’s role expectations at different “concentric\udcircles” of her foreign policy have generated multiple role perceptions, thus leading to unintended\udrole conflict. The direct implication of this is confusion and dissonance in the domestic institutional\udand constitutional mechanisms that impel foreign policy formulation and implementation.\udConsequently, the paper concludes that resolution of the distortions embedded in the country’s\udforeign policy is the only panacea to resolving her national and international image crisis. It therefore,\udcanvasses an imperative need for Nigeria to transform her convoluted foreign policy, redirect\udher diplomatic compass and re-align her foreign policy architecture to reflect the demands of a\udglobalizing worl

Nigeria’s National Image and Her Foreign Policy: An Exploratory Approach