When I heard about the idea being discussed in the AU summit of creating a United States of Africa I thought it was just another laughable idea from Gaddafi. But then I found out that it was the only item on the agenda! Believe or not, African leaders will spend full three days debating it. To make matters worse, all of the leaders attending the summit agree principally on the idea, they just differ on when to announce it, now or later. Africa is diverse and each region and country has a different set of problems and orientations. There has been many attempts to establish regional groupings like IGAD or the Arab Maghreb Union and all has failed miserably. So I think instead of actually doing something about Africa's problems through reforming and enhancing the already existing AU, African leaders find it easier to embark on "grand scale" visions and ideas that won't benefit anyone. Gaddaif's advocacy for this idea only shows how ridiculous it's. A dictator who wasn't accepted among Arab dictators and now is trying to show Africans what a great leader he's. Have you heard of Libyan opposition? democracy? elections? free press? of course not, because they don't exist. Is this the man Africa should be taking ideas from?If Africa comes together through a process of gradual improvement and solving existing problems that would be great. But if these "grand ideas" are debated simply so leaders could scape from actually doing something about the problems Africa then I think Africans are the only losers here.
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i think you are one of those who are under mining africa unity since 1960s, please we african we heard this kind of negative things about african unity , and everytime africa try to form united states of africa we see people like u who work for africa enemies will write negative stories about united states of africa. even united states of america they find it deficult when they try to form united states of america, so i don't know why you people are complaining about AU summit in Ghana, and i don't see it as a failure of AU , africa cannot united just one ,two, or three days meeting, it will take time to do it. and africa's problem cannot be solve if do not united as one nations
i think you are one of those who are under mining africa unity since 1960s, please we african we heard this kind of negative things about african unity , and everytime africa try to form united states of africa we see people like u who work for africa enemies will write negative stories about united states of africa. even united states of america they find it deficult when they try to form united states of america, so i don't know why you people are complaining about AU summit in Ghana, and i don't see it as a failure of AU , africa cannot united just one ,two, or three days meeting, it will take time to do it. and africa's problem cannot be solve if do not united as one nations
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