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USA for USAfrica: The Coalition for African Unification…
The Time of History is NOW!
The Formation of:
A United States of Africa on July 4th 2012 
Africa MUST Unite: When Will Africa Unite? July 4th 2012
The USA4USAFRICA was actually born from the quote of Muhammad Ali in 1987 in a personal meeting with me in which he revealed he would like to see the whole of Africa united in his lifetime. I never forgot those words and decided one day I would have a viable way to make it happen. Then came the Internet and in a moment of epiphany the movement was reborn as USA4USAFRICA in 1996.
Apocalypse Africa: Made in America
"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible,"
Jomo Kenyatta
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I lobbied the African Union for 2 years to make a session of the AU summit designated for the sole purpose of creating a United States of Africa which resulted in the Accra, Ghana summit of 2007 that could have created a United States of Africa on July 4th, 2007. That is also why I e-mail and post to keep and awaken those that do not know about the mission to create a United States of Africa. It's like we are all an extended family and each of us must do a task to contribute to our home based business of building a USAfrica. The one thing I have found in my USAfrica efforts since 1996 is the profound lack of major media coverage on a United States of Africa outside of Africa save for a few mentions and polls in BBC. There has never been an NBC Dateline or CBS 60 Minutes news special to bring the matter of USAfrica to the 98% of US blacks who still know nothing of the formation of a USAfrica. I have told you how I approached the heads of BET, Ebony, Essence, Black Enterprise, VIBE ( many of which, now are no longer black owned so if they could not report on a USAfrica then, they sure cannot do it now that they are white or corporate owned. ) and how they heemed and hawed and ended up never even having the words United States of Africa even appear in their pages. If there is no groundswell for a USAfrica developed in the United States, there is no "wave" to add the the groundswell already taking place in Africa despite the sparse coverage of USAfrica there. Thus the movement remains stalled except for the occasional blurb on Ghadaffi more meant to give the impression of "those silly Africans" than cast any real spotlight on the formation of a United Africa. "There is still a growing appetite for good investments," said Hubert Danso, the founder and vice chairman of Africa Investor, an international trade and development firm in Johannesburg. "Africa is still open for business."
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According to Africa Investor magazine, $12.8 billion in foreign investment flowed into Africa in February and March, even as the financial crisis worsened. China, which has become a major investor and trading partner for Africa, continues to invest. The China-Africa Development Fund, which has invested nearly $400 million in projects in Africa, said it planned to raise an additional $2 billion by November. African groups are also continuing to pump money into projects ranging from telecommunications to new oil fields. Emerging Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Washington, announced last week that it was spending more than $26 million to buy controlling stakes in two North African construction companies. In the spring, it bought a minority stake in a Moroccan outsourcing and call-center company and invested $47 million in an insurance company based in Ivory Coast. Over all, the company has $1.6 billion invested across the continent. "We still think the investment climate in Africa is good," said Thomas R. Gibian, the firm's chief executive. "We're looking long term, and the financial crisis has not deterred us from good investments." "For the most part, these are new markets that need everything, and there is little or no competition," said Bruce J. Wrobel, the president of Sithe Global, an energy company that is based in New York and controlled by the Blackstone Group. Africa is ear-marked as the breadbasket of the New World Order that is being put together on a pace far exceeding our efforts to form a United States of Africa. If the people never know, they can never get involved and THAT is how the illuminati and puppet masters that really control the world want to keep it. A united Africa would topple the New World Order's main plan to dominate the world because this is the last opportunity for a "People's Government" on scale of a super power if united, to be formed. Remember the NWO's mandate is that "the people" can never rule themselves, it need's to be carried out by the Illuminati, the enlighten few.... You are one of the few Pan Africans who know of my USAfrica efforts from my earliest days and in the years since then, you clearly see how the United States of Africa has been kept off the major media radar map. My mission is to get black celebrities involved in the fight for a USAfrica because their voices manage to get heard one way or another. * Update: With the death of Michael Jackson, it is clear the enormity of not having him on board as a Vanguard for a United States of Africa and his involvement with USA4USAfrica and what a United States of Africa could have done for him by giving him a laser focus outside of himself on a goal he would have agreed with... HAD HE KNOWN ABOUT IT...Which is my point for the rest who do not know of the efforts for a USAfrica. We have Bono with us on the USAfrica mindset instead of setting up flows of charity but where are OUR major black stars stepping up and in on the matter?
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We have our work cut out for us.... So Let's Get To Work People! A USAfrica is man's last chance to prove the people can rule themselves and not be ruled. Mark Wood Also review: 2007 - 2009: Establishment of the Union Government. 2009 -2012: Union Government and laws in place for the United States of Africa. 2012 -2015: All required structures of the United States of Africa in place.
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On the Dar forum, Mo underscored the urgency of African unification.
"We need African integration and we need that now, not
tomorrow," he said and added, "Who are we to think that we
can have 53 tiny countries and be able to compete with China, India,
Europe and America?"
AfricanConstitution.org has launched African unification with
distribution of the African
Unification Signature Form for
the African people to chart out their own way forward to a United
States of Africa of their own choosing. This democratic process is a
five-year program envisaged to deliver a continental federal
republic of Africa no later than 2015.
A continental nation of values. Africa
must not and shall not be a United States in slogan only. A United
States of Africa has to be a true United States. Borrowing the name
United States will make no sense unless we subscribe to the culture
of transparent and accountable government it represents, for those
great political ideas and democratic practices are universal values
and democracy is no monopoly of any one nation.
To the extent we want to call ourselves a United States of Africa,
we ought to have no problem whatsoever becoming a United States in
action and living to the great name. The African Unification Program
is a resource for the African people to create democratic
institutions for a democratic United States of Africa. Transparency
and accountability will be the defining features of that people-made
continental system of African government.
The rule of law. The
primary character of a true United States is the rule of law. This
is the common denominator on which true democracies thrive.
African tyranny, corruption, poverty and violence have thriven on a
culture of political impunity for a half-century owing to a
conspicuous absence of rules and lack of enforcement of existing
ones. A United States of Africa which represents a complete
departure from the historical anarchy is the only way forward as far
as the African people are concerned. This is what the Initiative for
a United States of Africa is all about.
The links above
and below will guide you through the Intiative for a United States
of Africa's African Unification Program.
There is any number of ways you can get involved in the democratic
process toward a United States of Africa:
1. Fill out and submit the African
Unification Signature
Form.Click on the signature drive link
to access the form).
2. Become an
ally (click
on the become an
ally link to
find a role to play).
With you on board, the African continent will be a step closer to a
United States of Africa that will earn the respect of the world
community and make us all proud to be Africans at long last.
African unification schedule
Village after village, AfricanConstitution.org's Initiative for a United States of Africa is reaching out directly to the African people with a set of grassroots projects designated as theAfrican Unification Program, a series of civic activities designed to culminate in a continental constitutional convention before 2015.
Here is the African Unification Program:
1. A grassroots signature drive. AfricanConstitution.org
is distributing the African Unification Signature Form (click on the signature
drive link to
access the form) for the African people to declare their prerogative
to chart out the way forward to a United States of Africa of their own
choice. The goal being to round up a half-billion signatures, your
signature counts and doing nothing is not an option.
The African unification signature drive is estimated to have reached
the goal of half-billion
signatures by
July 2011, but the signature collection will remain an ongoing
activity alongside the other scheduled projects.
For the full African unification schedule, click here.
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Bono wants United States of Africa
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Pop star and activist Bono has called for the creation of a United States of Africa, saying that a pan-continental identity would serve as a catalyst for resolving its conflicts.
The U2 frontman, who was in Japan to take part in a major development conference last week, said that a United States of Africa "would be the dream" in the long term. "I think a kind of broader African identity is going to be very important to deal with tribal tensions," The Irish rock star said that developing a broader identity may seem largely "poetic," but has been proven successful. "Irish people used to always have a little giggle when they would see Americans saluting their flags in schools, and then the whole standing there, singing the flag thing," Bono said. "But as you get to know a little bit more about things, you start to think, ah, there's so many different tribal groups in the United States, that to create a national identity of that size, they had to really work at this kind of patriotism," he said. The African Union was created in 2002 with inspiration from the European Union, but critics say the body has lacked the funds and political will to take effective action on the continent's flashpoints. It intervened in 2004 in the strife-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur, but has relinquished leadership to the United Nations to form a joint peacekeeping force.
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In the US of Africa, everyone wants to be Washington, D.C.ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The United States of Africa. It's one of few concrete plans African leaders agreed on as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week's continental summit.
One problem is, so many countries want to be Washington, D.C.
African leaders have been pushing for a continental government for years. And the plan continued to garner widespread support from the 40-odd delegations at the African Union summit that ended Saturday in Ethiopia's capital.
Yet even countries facing disputed elections and conflict at home were loath to suggest they would be anything but a leader of the group - even given the lighthearted question of what U.S. state they most resemble. Their responses highlight pecking order positioning that could keep a federally unified continent from ever becoming a reality.
"Sudan is something like Washington, D.C.," said Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem, Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations. "Sudan is always a leader. So we want to have the White House of Africa, the Pentagon of Africa."
Not so fast, Sudan.
Bamanga Tukur, a native of Nigeria and chairman of the AU's New Partnership for African Development, gave the honor to Ethiopia, the only African nation to have never been colonized. "Ethiopia can be Washington," he said. As for his own, oil-rich nation, Tukur said: "Nigeria can be Texas. Isn't that nice?" But, Asked if Addis Ababa - the headquarters of the African Union - might someday become the African Beltway, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was similarly cagey. "That's in the future," he said.
Any such future is far away. Everyone agrees that a unified African government could take decades, and would require many nations to make drastic improvements to governance, infrastructure, poverty and education. But the stickiest issue is power, so most leaders advocate a slow approach that will let them cement their regional ties and position, analysts say. Others - notably, formerly isolationist Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade - have called for quicker integration, which might favor their more established governments.
"Obviously, power politics are taking place throughout the continent," said Kenneth Mpyisi, director of the Institute for Security Studies, a think tank in Addis Ababa. "We have various regional powers in different parts of the continent. ... They would obviously want to retain a certain amount of power in their sphere of influence." Still, presidential candidates are already rumored. Libya's Gadhafi, a regional leader with a huge, oil-rich country and aspirations of global statesmanship, passionately argues for bringing Africa together immediately, and recently canvassed West Africa.
While no immediate union came from this week's summit, Gadhafi did push successfully for a presidential committee that will lay out proposals at a Cairo summit in June. "I am satisfied," he told the Associated Press. "We have reached an agreement today."
But when asked if he aspired to one day be president of the United States of Africa, Gadhafi simply laughed and walked away.
Others were more forthcoming. Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, Gabon's ambassador to the AU, had big dreams for his small, oil-rich coastal nation. Gabon's foreign minister, after all, was selected as the AU's new operating chief during the Addis Ababa meeting. "If we finally reach the goal of the United States of Africa, Gabon will be like California," he said. "Why not?"
When it was pointed out to him that, geographically, California would dwarf the West African nation, he smiled.
"Maybe like Los Angeles, then," he said.
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Africa: Scholars Divided Over a United States of AfricaDaniel Gwarbarah & Leocadia Bongben 23 February 2009 Though most analysts and adherents on the idea of a United States of Africa agree that there is need for unity, there is disagreement on the form it should take. Resource persons at the monthly Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Press Club, meeting on February 20, highlighted the cracks in the lofty project, with the absence of strong regional integration bodies. They wondered how African States can unite when there is disunity amongst States of the same sub-region. They quoted the Central African Sub Region where Cameroonians have been driven away from Equatorial Guinea on several occasions as an example. According to Hughes François Onana, CRTV journalist, for African States to unite, there is the necessity to ameliorate credibility and ensure continuity in economic reforms, reinforce the bargaining power in the international scene and harmonise legislation to promote good governance, democracy and human rights. Maurice Tadadjeu, lecturer at the Yaounde I University, for his part, perceives the project of a United States of Africa as a reality and already functional. Having followed the project from inception up to this moment, he argues that the project of uniting Africa is not Kaddafi's idea, but an idea that has existed for at least a century. The principal reason that blurs efforts is the lack of personal engagement, he argued. He regretted that African leaders are divided on the issue as perceived during the 9th African Union summit. Tadadjeu underscored the necessity of sensitising journalists as well as the population on the project. Tracing the history of the Pan African Hubert Kamgang, Chairman of the Union of the Peoples of Africa party, maintained that the idea was basically to abolish the colonial pact and to liberate African States from colonialism.
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Should a United States of Africa (USA) be a priority policy issue for African governments?
Senegambia News , Senegambia News
Many African leaders echoed the Unity of Africa as the definitive solution in ending conflicts, poverty, diseases and exploitation. Notably among them was Ghana's first post colonial leader Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Libyan leader colonel Muhammad Gaddafi and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, and a few others, are the most recent waves of African leaders calling for a unification of the embattled continent. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who was the architect and the driving force behind a potential unification of the continent was overthrown in a military coup as a result of the global logger-head of political ideologies - Western liberal democracy vs. Communism. The overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah consequently forced the remaining African leaders to either tighten their grip over respective authorities or kept a close nit on a potential unification agenda. What even jeopardized the umbrella organization; Organization of African Unity (OAU) , was its categorization as a dictators club and the closer ties that most of the continents leaders had with the former Union Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). The OAU shift from a unification agenda to conflict resolution. With the cold war era at its apex, the agenda for the Organization of African Unity (OAU) shifted from unification to tackling political conflicts across the continent. Military coups and popular uprisings became the building block for political instability across the continent. For example the crisis of South Sudan, apartheid in South Africa, and the liberation struggles in Southern Africa were the major agenda's of the Organization of African Unity as the umbrella organization. Most of the post-colonial leaders who envisioned a United States of Africa also felt victims of military coups and popular uprisings. By the end of the cold war, "the emergence of the miltariat as a major contender for power in Africa highlights some of the pitfalls of clientelism as a mechanism of political domination." (J. kandeh). According to Michael Braton , "the first half of the 1990's in Africa saw widespread political turbulence across the continent", which he asserted could be summarized as "transitions away from one-party and military regimes through liberalization reforms often culminating to competitive elections, the resultant effect of which are, new forms of regimes." The military coups of Mali (1991) and Sierra -Leone (1991) and The Gambia (1994), were unique examples to that reality In cases were the transition process failed to effectively embed democratic institutions, the rupture of endemic civil wars took shape. For example in Liberia, Sierra - Leone, Ivory - Coast and Chad the failure of the military leaders to build effective institutions of democracy contributed largely to instability across the political landscape. According to McGowan "Coups and conflicts have been a massive humanitarian and developmental disaster for West Africa and its 238 million people: at least over 200, 000 deaths in the Liberian civil war and more than 100, 000 in the Sierra Leone civil wars, with millions more international refugees and internally displaced persons resulting from such conflicts." These were some of the conflicts that further contributed in shifting the Organization of African Unity (OAU) from a unification agenda of the continent to that of conflict resolution. Thanks to the end of the cold war, efforts by the African Union and developmental partners that Africa has undergone a considerable reduction in conflicts. Trouble spots such as Darfur, Sudan, the crisis in Northern Uganda, Chad, Southern Senegal, the roving militias of the great lakes region, Somalia are still abound, and remains to be some of the major concerns of the African Union (AU). Are these troubled spots therefore an impediment to African Unity? This is the very good question many analysts and pundits continue to ponder. However, although there may be a global shift in the balancing of power - with China flexing its influence and a potential emerging Russia that may be keen to exert influence across the continent, democracy, free trade in a liberalized economy under a United Africa, may no doubt forced the liberation movements to join a new era of African leadership and governance. Even Libyan leader Colonel Ghadafi echoed such sentiments across the continent. During the African Union's Summit in both Ghana in 2005 and the Gambia in 2006, colonel Gaddafi in his Marathon Speech clearly emphasized on African Unity as the fundamental prerequisite to ending conflicts, poverty, diseases and exploitation. How about Colonel Gaddafi's call for African Unity? The colonel's call for a United States of Africa must in doubt be seen as an illusion but a well-calculated vision that the continent must explore. This is so because Africa today has more democracies characterized with deeply rooted liberal economies than one could imagine. Although trouble spots remained abound, conflicts across the continent has reduced considerably. The proliferation of regional political and economic blocs across the continent has also become no historical accident. Regional economic and political blocs such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the South African Development Community (SADC), the East African Regional Grouping and the North African Regional groupings are perfect regional economic and political groups that have made positive strides towards regional integration - a prerequisite for a United States of Africa. According to the contemporary scholar of international Political economy, Robert Gilpin, "Liberalization of economies involving openness and integration in global trade, foreign direct investment, and finance, strengthens political unification and the creation of a diverse economy in a unified market." These regional economic and political groupings may become the gateway for a United States of Africa. The Libyan leader's call may therefore not be categorized as off - track. During a most recent meeting with over 150 kings and traditional rulers, who bestowed the title "king of kings" on him, Colonel Gadaffi made such similar economic arguments to be a vehicle for unification of the continent. According to the BBC, Colonel Gadaffi emphasized that 'one African military, a single African currency, one African passport to travel within Africa and a unified government is a prerequisite for ending conflicts, poverty diseases, and exploitation and fostering development.' Pondering the Libyan leader's vision must therefore be a moral obligation upon all African leaders and citizens. Africa has come a long way, and with the help of developmental partners, a lot has been achieved. However, the Westphalia state systems that imposed arbitrary boundaries across the continent remains to be a fundamental colonial legacy that continues to be an obstacle to Unification and Development. Should the Westphalia state systems become an obstacle to African Unification? Taking a careful analysis of the continents history, one could satisfactorily denote that before colonialism, governance was characterized by traditional kingdoms under traditional rulers. Notably among the traditional systems were the Kingdom of Mali, the Kingdom of Ghana, the Kingdom of Dahomey and the Songhai empire. Following the partitioning of the continent, the imposition of the Westphalia state system laid the foundation for conflicts across most parts of Africa. African traditional settings of governments were destroyed as a result of imposed arbitrary boundaries. Such boundaries were imposed along the economic interest of colonial masters with a total disregard of ethno-cultural ties. The entire West African region was for example under the rule of a unique traditional kingdom. In his book titled Topics in West African History, the Ghanaian social scientist and scholar, Dr Adu Boahen argued that "economically, the partitioning of the continent was because of the need for new markets, for surplus manufactured goods caused by the spread of the industrial revolution from France to England, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal." The case of Senegal, the Gambia and Guinea - Bissau and Cape Verde were unique historical realities. 'The entire region of these three countries was under Portuguese domination until 1866 when control over some of the territory was ceded to the British and the French in exchange of territory somewhere else.' Economic motives were largely the driving force behind the Portuguese ceding of these territories. The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra-Leone, Nigeria became subjects of British colonialism, whilst Senegal, Mauretania, Benin, Togo, Mali, Ivory - Coast, Burkina - Faso fell under French colonial domination. The Portuguese also maintained control and domination over Guinea - Bissau and Cape Verde. It was such similar colonial activities that prevailed across other parts of the African continent. Knowing that arbitrary boundaries that imposed the Westphalia state systems are orchestrated colonial machinations deterring a unified African political front, it is imperative for the African Union to carefully consider the Libyan leaders call for a United Africa. Doing so may only become a vehicle in fostering integration along political, economical and social lines. The world in general has evolved through many faces of history. During such evolutions, mankind has undergone numerous political, economical and social trends. Africa is no exception to that. Robbed of her traditional entities and institutions, Africa was exploited of its riches whilst men and women were subjected to slavery. Colonialism that ushered in the Westphalia state system gave some degree of freedom with the granting of independence to what today constitutes the so call modern states of Africa. Will the modern independent states evolve to a United States of Africa? Only time will tell. What is certain is that, unless the so called modern African states give up sovereignty under a unity government, a single currency, a single army, a unique passport and create a diverse economy in a unified market, conflicts, poverty, diseases and exploitation will continue to be deterrents to development. History will therefore judge all current and coming generations of leaders for failing to unify the continent. The author is the editorial editor http://senegambianews.com/. He also published The Sword of Truth at http://sofawarrior.blog.com/. He could be reached at binneh@senegambianews.com or bsm235@nyu.edu. |
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Yours in a United Africa,
Mark Wood
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