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Is it possible for Africa to advance as individual nations?
The Osagyefo Dr K. Nkrumah saw progress and prosperity in Africa only in terms of the OAU, now the Africa Union. He envisioned this union as the only way that African could achieve political stability and economic independence.
Later events provide evidence that he was spot on. Why?
1. Africa is plagued by corruption and neocolonialist exploitation. Imagine Africa were like the US which has a central Federal government. It would have been impossible for individual leaders to rise to power trample on the constitution and visit terror on its citizen because the authority of the Africans union and the Central military would have dealt with them. There would have been a recognisable authority to have dealt with, Idi Amin, Mengistu, Bokassa, Doe, Houphoet Boigny, Mobutu, The Rwanda atrocities, Somalia , etc. We would have enjoyed safety by way of numbers.
2. Africa has lots of natural resources and economic capability. Imagine if Africans traded fairly amongst ourselves with a common African currency. We would not have had individual states like UK, France, Belguim signing contracts with individual leaders and robbing us. And if all the oil sold in Africa had been properly accounted for, not to talk about the dozens of minerals. What a great continent that would have been.
3. The apartheid ssytem dreaded a United Africa. They would have been thrown out of Zimbabwe, ans South Africa, ages earlier.
I wish anyone cleverer than I, to spell out how Africa, or any African country can get better on its own. Even if by a miracle one country became rich or technologically advanced, it will be swamped by migration from all the less of countries until they expel them as has happened so many times. We are wassting time.......
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The Osagyefo Dr K. Nkrumah saw progress and prosperity in Africa only in terms of the OAU, now the Africa Union. He envisioned this union as the only way that African could achieve political stability and economic independence.
Later events provide evidence that he was spot on. Why?
1. Africa is plagued by corruption and neocolonialist exploitation. Imagine Africa were like the US which has a central Federal government. It would have been impossible for individual leaders to rise to power trample on the constitution and visit terror on its citizen because the authority of the Africans union and the Central military would have dealt with them. There would have been a recognisable authority to have dealt with, Idi Amin, Mengistu, Bokassa, Doe, Houphoet Boigny, Mobutu, The Rwanda atrocities, Somalia , etc. We would have enjoyed safety by way of numbers.
2. Africa has lots of natural resources and economic capability. Imagine if Africans traded fairly amongst ourselves with a common African currency. We would not have had individual states like UK, France, Belguim signing contracts with individual leaders and robbing us. And if all the oil sold in Africa had been properly accounted for, not to talk about the dozens of minerals. What a great continent that would have been.
3. The apartheid ssytem dreaded a United Africa. They would have been thrown out of Zimbabwe, ans South Africa, ages earlier.
I wish anyone cleverer than I, to spell out how Africa, or any African country can get better on its own. Even if by a miracle one country became rich or technologically advanced, it will be swamped by migration from all the less of countries until they expel them as has happened so many times. We are wassting time.......
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