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The African Union signaled its strongest intention yet to pursue the dream of a United States of Africa by making the proposal the key focus of its upcoming summit scheduled for Accra, Ghana—the cradle of Pan Africanism—in the second half of 2007. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African leaders Tuesday chose the theme, “An AU government: towards the United States of Africa”, as the sole agenda item for the next
African Union (AU) summit scheduled next July 2007 in Accra, Ghana!

We are witnessing the formation of a United States of Africa and Africa's leaders and the African Union MUST NOT BE AFRAID to unite as one nation and declare themselves a United States of Africa.

THIS is THE Moment of the start of a New African History and we are depending on THESE leaders to put aside their fears and doubts and for the 1st time in their political careers, to actually LEAD the African people to a new era...

As the world press at large have finally caught on to the fact that Africa CAN unite this July into a united federation of nation-states, the main thing they want to report on is that Africans are feeling doubt on following through on their greatest opportunity.

In other words, they are afraid to save themselves and join together as one nation. That they would rather debate and argue among themselves as they always have done throughout history than dare to see a vision of a united Africa and take advantage the opportunity act on it.

I assure you, if the African leaders do not take heed and insure the destiny of all Africans by taking the step to unify this July...

Africa will give up on itself and the self imposed destruction of the remainder of Africa will speed up exponentially.

Africa has found a new piggy bank in the form of China and will put it's collective self in hock again to a new master after the G-8 nations forgave most of their debt and opened the door of opportunity for the nations of Africa to unite as one collective nation.

A united Africa will not need to borrow, it will create it's own economy in the building of it's united infrastructure, payment of taxes to the new national treasury from the nations currently stealing it's resources who will now have to pay fair market value and attract investment from around the world because a united Africa is a sound business proposition and opportunity.

The concept of African unity embraces the fundamental needs and characteristics of African civilization and ideology, and at the same time satisfies all the conditions necessary for an accelerated economic and technological advance. Such maximum development would ensure a rational utilization of the material resources and human potential of our continent along the lines of an integrated economy, and within complementary sectors of production, eliminating all unnecessary forms of competition, economic alienation and duplication.

Pan-Africanism is the total liberation and unification of Africa under Scientific Socialism.

Story Highlights

• African Union meets this weekend in Ghana to address continental government
• Leaders face pleas for urgent action on Darfur, Somalia and enduring poverty
• Summit billed as tribute to Ghana's late first president, driving force of united Africa
• Sceptics of united Africa point to decades of division; wars, coups, massacres

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ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters) -- African leaders meet this weekend to debate a grand plan for a continental government, but they face pleas for urgent action now to halt conflicts in Darfur and Somalia and tackle enduring poverty.

A summit of the 53-nation African Union starting in Ghana on Sunday has at the top of its agenda a "Grand Debate" on creating a United States of Africa and a federal government to rule it -- a long-held dream of supporters of Pan-African integration.

Organizers are billing the three-day Accra summit as a tribute to Ghana's first post-independence president, Kwame Nkrumah, who became the standard bearer of Pan-African unity when he took over from British colonial rule a half century ago.

But sceptics doubt the practicality of a federal government for Africa after decades of wars, coups and massacres that often reflect ethnic and religious fault lines criss-crossing a vast continent artificially carved up by former colonial rulers.

While most Africans embrace the vision of a united, resource-rich continent of 800 million people able to speak with one voice to the world, campaigners say AU leaders must tackle more pressing problems at their doorstep.

"Darfur should be on the agenda, because it's really, really urgent," said Oury Traore, regional program manager for the West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), a non-governmental organization that promotes conflict resolution.

Traore's group wants the AU to make its top priority the protection of civilians in Sudan's western Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have been killed in a conflict pitting Sudanese forces and allied militias against local rebels.

"We shouldn't allow room for this kind of insanity any more, in any state," she said.

Civil society groups urged AU leaders to act now to bring peace to Somalia by pressing for a political solution there, and some also urged them to look at Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe is accused of crushing opponents and ruining the economy.

Organizers defend agenda despite calls to address Darfur

But summit organizers defend the single-item agenda, and deny the plan for a continental government is too ambitious.

"Yes, we have serious problems, people are dying in places like Darfur and Somalia. But people are dying elsewhere in the world, not just in Africa," Ghana's Foreign Minister Nana Akufo Addo said.

Addo said a continent that pooled its resources and spoke with one voice would command greater respect in the world and help Africa shake off the indignity of always being portrayed as a byword for chaos and poverty.

"In the last 20 or 30 years we have a continent that has been bedevilled by conflict of one sort or another, vast migration of many of our young people. That is the Africa we want to stop," he said.

Leaders disagree on timeline for united Africa

But he recognized disagreements among the AU heads of state about how quickly a federal United States of Africa should be created and how it should be governed.

While some leaders like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade are vocal advocates of a continental government, others, like South African President Thabo Mbeki, are believed to favor a more gradual approach.

Gaddafi, who often wears clothes emblazoned with the outline of the African continent, has travelled to the summit by land, drumming up support for his unifying vision, which includes a plan to create a 2-million strong African army.

He says Africans will only win respect if they act as a single continent -- a view shared by Nkrumah's son Sekou.

"I think ideally it should be a continental government. The problem is not how we get there, it is that we get there," Sekou Nkrumah told Reuters.

Socialism in Africa introduces a new social synthesis in which modern technology is reconciled with human values, in which the advanced technical society is realized without the staggering social malefactions and deep schisms of capitalist industrial society.

Africa, Unite 'cause we're moving right out of Babylon,
And we're going to our father's land.
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before god and man, yeah
To see the unification of all Africans, yeah
As it's been said already let it be done, yeah
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher man
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for the benefit of your children,"

--- says the great Bob Marley.

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African Union (AU) Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said he subscribes to the idea of having the United States of Africa as one way of strengthening trade and in the process stop relying on overseas markets.

Reviving his long-cherished dream of an 'United States of Africa', Gadaffi said: "Africa should have one identity, one nationality, one people, one currency, one army." He was speaking at a African Union (AU) gathering of African presidents and prime ministers marking the seventh anniversary of a 1999 summit of African leaders that went part way towards Gaddafi’s vision of unity by deciding to start the process of creating the AU. The union was finally founded in 2002. The 53-member body later set up several other agencies including a parliament as part of its efforts to forge closer unity on the continent.

USA for USAfrica: The Coalition for African Unification…

Pan-African Nationalist Movement (PANM)
and the African Unity Movement (AUM)

These are the monikers for that association of African agents committed to the rapid evolution and revolution of a continent-wide autochthonous government and cultural institutions. These nationalists are to be distinguished from regionalists and micro-nationalists.

The African Liberation Movement (ALM) was subsumed for a while under the rubric of the PANM but with the assertion of an African Union the PANM was brought into clearer focus and distinguished from the ALM which sought nationalisms wedded to colonial borders. PANM speaks to those who promoted the establishment of Africa as one nation.

The African Unity Movement (AUM) was a broader movement that included the PANM and federalist ranging from those that would accept a Union or Federal form of continental unity. Some of the participants of the Casablanca Group were a part of this movement.

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At this point The USA4USAfrica is seeking an African Corporation, Businessman, Media Company or group of individuals who can order 100,000 or more United States of Africa shirts, buttons, hats, or any combination to distribute to people in Africa's largest cities and particularly Accra, Ghana before the upcoming African Summit this July where the sole agenda item is the formation of a United States of Africa. This show of solidarity for a united Africa will hopefully find enough people photographed in the attire and thus appear in the major media that up to this point still refuse to give any coverage or press releases on the unification of Africa in major media publications ( except the BBC and now Vanity Fair ).

Africa's leaders and the African Union MUST NOT BE AFRAID to unite as one nation and declare themselves a United States of Africa.

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Black Africans Must Tread Carefully Over the US Africa Project

By Basil Okafor
From the Ghanaian Chronicle
19 April 2007

In the past nearly five decades since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), many Africans have consistently called for closer ties between the nation-states that make up the continent.

After 38 years and feeling it had attained its main goal of African liberation, the 53-nation OAU transformed into an African Union, (AU), on October 15, 2001, to ostensibly give the body political and economic teeth, as a first step to greater continental integration and unity.

In furtherance of this ideal, there is a new suggestion to use the forthcoming July 2007 AU summit, to raise the stakes even higher. At the Accra gathering, proponents of the new African continental enterprise are to push for a United States of Africa. In the new arrangement, the entire continent, if the purveyors of this concept have their way, would fuse into one sprawling nation, with one army, one currency (much like the European Union) and free movement of people and goods, with no international borders, as they presently exist.

Clearly, the idea of a “United States of Africa” resonates with the aspirations of Africans everywhere, (both at home and in the Diaspora) who desire a better Africa. And predictably, the decision to push for a
USAfrica at the July summit has drawn spirited responses from the Pan-African public. But it is also instructive to note the respective tones of the varied responses.

In the first ten days of February, following the January 31announcement of the AU decision, Africans wrote in to a BBC World Service Forum on the topic: “Is African unity a dream worth pursuing?” Of the 32 contributors to the forum, none is actually opposed to unification.

However, they fall into 3 main camps in their attitudes and expectations, namely: (A) The enthusiasts (12)-who so desperately want unification that they appear blind to, or uninterested in the landmines on the way to it; (B) The sceptics (5)-who don’t believe it will happen and, for assorted reasons, dismiss it as a ‘mirage’; and (C) The cautious (16)-who want it but point out some serious problems that need
to be disposed of before unification can succeed.

The 32 contributors to the Forum wrote in from: USA 8; Sudan 6; UK 4; Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania 2 each; and 1 each from Cote d’Ivoire, Canada, Cameroon, Liberia, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria and Seychelles.
It is significant that two-thirds of the contributors drew attention to the obstacles to its attainment. Even more significantly, every Sudanese contributor highlighted some obstacle to be overcome. And Sudan is where the attempt to unite Arabs and Black Africans within one state has caused a bitter race war that has lasted more than 50 years. Perhaps the rest of Black Africa has much to learn from Sudan. Sudan has been an experiment in Afro-Arab unification: its experience augurs badly for the USAfrica project.

A key issue raised by the two-thirds majority of the contributors who constitute the sceptics and the cautious, is that of identity. The issues they want to see addressed are as follows: Who is an African? Do Arabs in North Africa identify with Black Africans or with their white kith and kin in Arabia and the Middle East?

Other obstacles to the idea of USAfrica they raised were: Colourism: the ingrained Arab contempt for Blacks; the conflict between Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism and Arab ambitions to impose Islam on
Africans and to Arabise Black Africa. What principles will this USAfrica follow? Would it be Christian, Muslim or other? Will Muslims accept to be ruled by non-Muslims in the USAfrica? How will obstacles to unification - including tyranny, tribalism, mutual distrust and corruption - be removed?

Contributing from Mahe, the Seychelles, Clement Kuol Biong writes, “A veteran Sudanese politician, once compared the Sudan Socialist Union of Jafaar Numeiri’s rule to a shadow tree where we come just to share the shade but what each person under the tree is thinking about is not necessarily the same.

“So how can Africa be united when we are still tribally fragmented and no African leader is interested in uniting his own people? How can African unity become a dream come true when different groupings of the AU have their own hidden agendas?

“The Arabs have never stopped their dream of imposing Islamic culture on African masses by the sword, a practice which is still widespread in Sudan up to today.”

Atina Ndindeng, from Manchester, England, summarises: “African unity is just a mirage because of greed, dishonesty and corruption among the executive whom we hold in such high esteem and who should be setting an example, but they are all failures and political demagogues. Shame to most African heads.”

On their part, the enthusiasts, who constitute one-third of the contributors, rest their hope on a dream that, “the United Africa will be a Green Superpower as opposed to a military superpower and eventually be a key player at the table of world affairs instead of a beggar.”

And, as Mark Wood, co-founder of USA4USAfrica, of Greenwood California, puts it, “A United States of Africa can prevent an African apocalypse on the horizon if unification does not happen NOW!”

But what good is any Green Superpower (if ever such utopia is possible for a united Africa) without the military muscle to even defend its farmlands from the sort of marauding invaders that the continent has known since the Arabs conquered and settled in North Africa between 640 and 1400 AD?

Some of the promoters of USAfrica regard their project as an already done deal. They insist that, despite opposing views, “Africa WILL unite, as one nation. As a matter of fact, it will happen this July at the upcoming African Union summit in Ghana.”

“The tide,” they maintain, “cannot be turned at this point as the unification of Africa is undeniably in motion all arguments opposing a united Africa are rendered moot at this point because Africans have finally mandated themselves that they will unite and work out the details from a united position as opposed to being divided.”

These promoters have already designed a flag for USAfrica and chosen its first president for us: “Our Mandate is for the African Union, in 2007, to form an official United States of Africa with Kofi Annan, (whose term ended December 31st 2006) departing UN Secretary General, being installed as the United States of Africa’s First President in much the same fashion George Washington was ‘installed’ as the first U.S. American President. God willing.”

As the promoters see it, all that is left for them to do is to propagandise and manipulate us like sheep to acquiesce. How? By, according to them:

1. “Organizing Town Hall meetings to get public support for the Federation and to get ideas on how it could be created. “Town Hall meetings should begin soon inside Africa and outside Africa. Town Hall
meetings are [to] provide suggestions on how to implement Continental Union Government (United States of Africa). Not a discussion about the Federation, but how to implement it.”

2. “Recruitment of celebrities to join the cause and give support and voice to the United States Of Africa. From America: recruit Oprah, Obama, Angelina Jolie, Danny Glover.”

3. Contacting “top hip-hop superstars to mobilise for the United States of Africa”.

By proceeding without a known and public mandate from the people of Africa and, especially, by drawing attention only to what they naively consider the potential benefits of USAfrica, and by trying to restrict their town-hall discussions to implementation alone, these promoters are behaving like a used car salesman who doesn’t want the customer to raise awkward questions about faulty aspects of the car.

However, the issues raised by the sceptics and the cautious, the two-third majority on the BBC Forum, suggest that it is time for Black Africans to wake up and do the hard thinking and ask-and honestly
answer-the tough questions we have avoided for 50 years about the sanity of unifying Black Africans and Arabs under one continental government.

For example, why is a USAfrica necessary? What problems will it solve for Black Africa that the OAU could not and the AU cannot, solve? Who are the shadowy godfathers of this USAfrica project and what is their hidden agenda?

The Forum comments indicate that many ordinary Black Africans are doing some of this hard thinking. The AU presidents should follow suit and do, and be seen to be doing, the same. They should not rush to implement this shady project before they and the public have, together, thought things through and in the greatest detail.

There was no popular debate before the formation of the AU and the adoption of NEPAD by Africa’s presidents. Will there be a full and free debate by the people before this USAfrica project proceeds any further? Will the promoters, seen and unseen, of this USAfrica, allow it?

Regardless of the promoters, let us all debate it, every aspect of it, not just how to implement it. Let us all debate the merits and demerits of continental government and do so for the next five years, or till we arrive at an enlightened consensus.

Let us debate it in the light of Black people’s experience in Sudan, Mauritania and the rest of the Afro-Arab borderlands. And, in light of the four decades of the OAU/AU, too. Let the AU summit on it be
postponed for at least five years, while the people debate it.

Before we, the Black African people, instruct the AU presidents on how to vote, let us examine the motives, objectives, sponsors - overt, as well as covert - modalities and feasibility of this USAfrica and do so in the context of what Black Africa needs to survive and prosper in this century.

Caution should be our watchword for, as Abednego Majack - a contributor from Rumbek, Sudan - puts it, succinctly, “United States of Africa? The phrase sounds good but the question is, do we really see ourselves as African, regardless of our colonial boundaries, religions and regional groupings?

“The AU must be very serious when considering how to make African unity attractive otherwise the continent will still remain in two halves, sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa and problems will develop along that fault line.” Before this dream of continental union turns into a nightmare for us and our descendants, let us investigate its likely consequences for us, Black Africans. Prevention is better than cure, as they say!

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Union Government of Africa (UGA): what a nice vision!!! Read here the final proposal from the Pan African Parlament (PAP) http://www.pambazuka.org/aumonitor/images/uploads/Draft_PAP_Position_on_CG_-16th_April_2007.pdf

Africa will be one country and the current 54 national states will be reduced to the status of only federal states: http://unitedstatesafrica.tripod.com/ The expected process is to forge Africa with:
- one transcontinental citizenship
- one currency
- one defence force
- one foreign department
- one policy of foreign trade
- one centeral government managing the above
- one pan-African parlament
- one African court of law
- univisum = people without border as Africans used to live before 1885 Scramble for Africa
- free from legacy of colonialism such as artificial borders which devided for eg. Oromos in to two, Tigarus in to two, Afars in to three, Somalis in to five...etc and slowly forge a working inter-Africa federal states. At the begining the 54 current African countries will be the federal states in USAfrica.

What is the impact for us "Ethiopians"? First Ethiopia will be one of the federal states and slowly it will be changed to the fact that national states like Oromia, Tigrai, Amharai, Afar, Somalia ...etc will be the autonomous federal states in a USAfrica.

So the question to be asked is: why should Amharas cry for centeralization of Ethiopia and Oromos for secession of Oromia?? Both these movements are against the movement and policy of forging USAfrica.

I think CUD and OLF leaders who formed AFD are such far-sighted, so that they agreed to struggle for the common agendas like Freedom and Democracy giving up their illusion of eg. desmantling Oromia and decolonizing Oromia respectively.

Let's all take this vision of AFD and fight against Weyane fascists to forge first a democratic and integrated Ethiopia with a genuine autonomy of Oromia, Amharai, Tigrai, Afar, Somali...etc to pave the way for USAfirca as described above.

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Luanda - Tuesday, August 15, 2006 - 5:47:03 AM
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Assilah, Morocco, 08/08 - African Ministers have used the Assilah symposium on the United States of Africa to air their views on the project, with the Cape Verdean Foreign minister Victor Borges, dismissing the "everything for all" approach.

"We must start the African Union project with those who want to start, whatever their number. The other countries will follow afterwards," he said at the symposium here Saturday.

The Minister cited the European Union, saying it was "fundamental to put in place strong but non-authoritarian States, to guarantee peace, security, and good governance."

Senegalese Trade Minister, Mamadou Diop, expressed a similar sentiment, saying it was essential "to move towards the creation of the United States of Africa with those who want to see it happen."

"It`s now 40 years that the problem is being raised and no major breakthrough has been made yet," he noted, blaming the delay on political decision makers.

The Minister lamented that Africa`s share of international trade had fallen from 12% in 1986 to 02% today.

Burundi Foreign Minister Antoinette Batumbwira, cautioned: "We must move slowly but freely" noting that the creation of a United States of Africa must meet certain prerequisites, including the consolidation of regional economic communities.

But Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, favours a quick creation of the United States of Africa, saying: "We get involved first, and we rationalise afterwards."

"Africa has missed several opportunities, the most important of which was that of 1963 with the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)," declared Gadio, who said the problems facing Africa today could be traced to the "victory of the minimalists" who ignored the ideas developed by the pioneers of African unity.

He said there had been some 186 military coups in Africa, stressing that "African leaders are lagging behind, when compared with other continents."

"It is time to realise that Africa`s success depends on the political unity," Gadio stressed.

The three-day symposium, organised within the framework of the Summer University of Assilah Forum, ends Sunday.

Take a look at where Uhura was born, and as the late Beatle John Lennon once said; "Imagine".

Collectivist African Personality

This concept speaks to the Pan-African national culture. While close to the African world in meaning this concept is not essentially a race-based one but a race conscious one. More importantly, it is an ideologically and culturally based identity. It speaks to an "African People," which Nkrumah referred to as the African masses and which S. Touré often called the People's Class. It speaks to the behavior and character of organized entities in their attempt to establish an optimal zone for continued cultural development.

Under a discussion of cosmological issues, Asante speaks to the concept of "composite African." "The fundamental assumptions of Africalogical inquiry are based on the African orientation to the cosmos. By "African" I mean clearly a "composite African" not a specific discrete African orientation which would rather mean ethnic identification, i.e., Yoruba, Zulu, Nuba, etc." (Asante 1992, 9) To these specific groups we will add, Nzema, Asante, Fante,[1] African American, and Ghanaian. The composite African is the foundation of Pan-African identity and the individual reflection of the African Personality.

'Traditional rulers', in this text, refers to those kings and local leaders who, before European colonial intervention, managed the affairs of polities throughout Africa. It is a broad and sweeping term including a host of traditional interrelated leadership groups and public officials. All seekers of political control sought the collaboration or annihilation of these rulers.

Nkrumah offered a philosophy to help with decolonization. It is an applied philosophy that takes the social milieu of the philosopher(s) into consideration. It upholds certain traditional values while synthesizing incoming experiences. Finally, it maps out the creation of liberated territories through the formulaic application of "positive action."

African Liberation Movement (ALM)-

This movement includes the collection of African organizations and key personnel that cooperated to bring a cessation to the European classical colonialism. They sought to dismantle the colonial apparatus that dominated Africa from the latter part of the Nineteenth century through the latter part of the Twentieth century. Tactical unity within the movement existed on the ideas of socialism and unity.

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Our policy is to distribute only that news that provides empowering information to our readers. Our hope is that our readers are those seeking to improve the life chances of humanity in general and the African People in particular. This is what drives our focus.

The challenge for the next generation of African people who are nationalists, pan-africanists, African-centered thought and others on the fringe of such thinking is to move beyond the pathological rhetoric of what African people should be doing to what am I doing?

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Clearly for those from 18 years of age to those in their forties there are possibilities that did not exist for those who came before them at the international level. Access to global Pan-African processes use to take a great deal of effort and financial discipline. Now at the push of a button this generation can be in direct contact with other African people in other parts of the world.

Yet even this generation is suffering from problem of terminal uniqueness. In other words it is assumed that the rest of the African world sits around waiting to read what our scholars have to say or waits to hear what our organizations think. The reality is that the rest of the African world doesn't know that we exist simply because there is not enough cross-pollination taking place in the first place.

Clearly this generation must GO to Africa if they plan on talking about Africa. This generation must TALK to real groups on the African continent. This generation must BE IN Contact with Francophone and Anglophone Africa which means it needs to develop its language skills.

This generation must become involved, actively, in the politics of the African Union and developmental groups in Africa. For every thought that entertains conspiracy theories there must be two thoughts that participate in political/economic and social structure development in Africa. The following are only a few websites that connect with Africa today. To know the African past and have no mastery of the Africa present is merely another form of self-anesthetizing. Those 18 years of age to 40 are responsible for the African future whether they want to take responsibility for it or not. Hear one of the songs from the soundtrack by clicking HERE.

Africa is not one nation, and could never be. Africa does not need to be one Nation to be successful. Africa's nature has always been variegation and plethora: many different and unique entities sharing one space. The strength of Africa is in its diversity each with its own unique identity, yet, co-existing. What is required today is to return the individual and natural sovereignties and nationhoods of indigenous African peoples to the natural ethnicities who own them. As Africans, our natural loyalty and natural identity belong to our respective ethnicities. All the ruse and scheme to destroy such and have us belong to some "State" to which we transfer our citizenship and loyalty have failed: they are the cause of the ongoing turmoil in Africa today, as all the African so-called countries are in fact such States. Where colonialism stopped balkanizing Africa, religions has filled the gap and have a greater devastating effect (where Balkanization is used with its correct meaning, which is the forced, non-consenting, unnatural rearrangement of peoples for the sole purpose of benefiting the arranger and making the arranged weak and confounded). Both Christianity and Islam have eroded the true African spirituality. To speak of "one African nation" without considering the impediments and treachery and brutality of especially backward and vicious Islam in Africa is to demonstrate a lot of naiveté. What I see for Africa are independent sovereign ethnic-based nations coalescing with mutuality and respect into consensual sociopolitical and economic aggregates growing to the size of even regions. Borders can be porous in such arrangements, allowing for rapid and unimpeded exchanges; but inter-national borders there must be for the protection and security of indigenous groups and their resources, and for the implementation of effective leadership and efficient administrative structures instituted by their own people and responsive to their own people.

"There are no words to describe what I feel about the possibility of the achievement of The United States of Africa. The applause of the entire globe could not give this cause justice, and justice is what this cause will bring. I am sure that the US of Africa will mean the extinction of poverty and the promotion of world Unity. I know the day will come when its constitution is signed. It will be signed not with greed and power in mind, but instead with love and unity. My prayers and deepest salutations are with you all." – Jared

It is frightening to know that the behavior Ancestor Garvey described below is still applicable today. It also adds to the explanation of why we are in the condition we are in today. There is enough wealth among all of the professional athletes of African descent in every sport to underwrite each independent African school ten times over.

There are enough Hip Hop artists of African descent to do fundraisers for every nation building organization in addition to joining them to revolutionize the political direction of African Amerian youth to one of global revolutionary nation building.

To: undisclosed-recipients: > >Subject: Africa seeking to Integrate into a United States of Africa

African ministers of foreign affairs started two days of talks Wednesday in preparation for this year's annual summit due at the weekend, organisers said.

The host country's foreign minister, Lamin Kabba Bajo, said "harmonising and synchronizing the activities" of existing regional economic and political blocs would be one of the focus areas at this year's summit.Diplomats say the aim would be to reduce the numbers of regional groups from eight to five to speed up the integration process.

"Those which can really come together, that's a step towards the actual unification," Bajo told AFP.

"Unless we find a better name we are working towards a united states of Africa," he said. Bajo admitted that the goal of a unified continent would not be attained unless Africa rids itself of perennial strife and conflict."Africa has been preoccupied with security issues, when we put out one fire, another crops up. This has disturbed us for many years in our bid to concentrate on developmental issues," he said. The crisis in Sudan's western Darfur region and the conflict in Somalia > >will be among the top subjects the summit cannot avoid this year. > > > South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dhlamini Zuma, who chaired a meeting of the African Union council on peace and security late Tuesday said the AU was anxious to see a UN arms embargo on Somalia lifted to allow the deployment of a peacekeeping mission. The seven-nation east African regional grouping Inter- Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is planning to dispatch a peacekeeping force in Somalia - where Islamic militias have imposed Sharia law.But it has run into problems - chief among them, the UN arms embargo. "We are going to send a strong message to the UN in connection with the arms embargo, that we support the arms embargo but the peace support mission must not be affected by this embargo," said Dhlamini-Zuma. She said the arms embargo was also hampering the transitional government in Somalia in its effort to build national institutions like the police.The AU renewed its call for the lifting of the 14-year arms ban. Tension between Sudan and Chad will also come under the spotlight.Dhlamini-Zuma said the AU "will encourage both sides to work together, to cooperate and to meet possibly at the highest level to see how they can lower the tension there."The summit is also expected to check on progress in the preparation for elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the implementation of peace deals in Ivory Coast.

There are enough independently wealthy African American lawyers who could join such organizations, providing them with the legal counsel necessary to empower their work. Such individuals have more personal wealth than they know what to do with which goes to buying cars, homes, and celebrating themselves with extravagant parties as professional agents direct them to make themselves marketable to white society at the expense of empowering Black people.

It is not enough to give out scholarships, cars or makeovers. All people have the legal right to do whatever they want to with the wealth they accumulate but time and history are not kind to those who should have done more and avoided the responsibility. When the white world is no longer interested in them, what they have done for their people will determine who takes care of them as their suns set.

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Progression towards United States of Africa continues
By A. Akbar Muhammad
Updated Jul 21, 2005, 10:11 pm

Serving as host for the summit, his remarks echoed his historic push for the establishment of the United States of Africa.

Invited to the conference by Col. Gadhafi, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was the only representative for the Africans in the Diaspora. He said that he thoroughly enjoyed the conference. What was most inspiring was that, as each of the presidents came forward, they knew Minister Farrakhan and showed much love and admiration for his work in America. Many shared how happy they were to see him present, showing concern about how Africa moves forward in this critical time.

In July 1998, Muammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya, attended the Organization of African Unity (OAU) summit held in Algeria. In his 45-minute address before the member states, he stressed that Africa will have to unite in order to survive.

One of the foreign ministers present, who later talked to this author, observed that many initially dismissed Col. Gadhafi’s remarks and some even chuckled. That is—until the revolutionary Libyan leader invoked the names of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Sekou Toure, and reminded the summit participants of the core philosophies and aspirations of these heroic African heads of state.

Kwame Nkrumah, one of the foremost proponents of Pan-Africanism who organized the 1945 Pan-African Congress in England, led the former British colony the Gold Coast into independence as Ghana in 1957, becoming the country’s first prime minister and president. He was key in bringing the OAU into existence in 1963, as a part of his ultimate vision of “One Africa.”

Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the pioneer of Arab socialism and nationalism, was one of the founders of the military group that led the 1952 Revolution coup that eventually drove the British colonists out of Egypt, and became the country’s president in 1954. His domestic policies were heralded throughout the Arab world for lifting the majority of the Egyptian people out of poverty.

Ahmed Sekou Toure, a daring politician, led Guinea into independence from the French Community after winning a historic 1958 referendum, becoming the country’s first president.

Col. Gadhafi also referenced the formation of the European Union, saying it was seen as necessary among European governments in order to survive the current global environment. So, too, must Africa survive today, he maintained.

One year later, in Sirte, Libya, on Sept. 9, 1999, Col. Gadhafi invited the heads of state of the OAU to a meeting, wherein he issued the Sirte Declaration, which detailed the need for an African Union and its eventual evolution into the United States of Africa.

On July 9-10, 2002, the First Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union convened in Durban, South Africa.

“How can we be free if we don’t produce and feed ourselves and sell the surplus to others? Are we saying that we can’t grow food and cotton, or make the clothes that we wear?” asked Col. Gadhafi during the recent Sirte summit.

AU President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is also the president of Nigeria, delivered brief remarks to the summit. AU Secretary-General Alpha Omar Konare, the former president of Mali, introduced the host of the summit, which was held at the Ouagadougou Hall, named after the capital of Burkina Faso.

The name was given in 1998 after African foreign ministers convening in Burkina Faso determined to disregard the UN sanctions against Libya by flying planes over the politically isolated country if the sanctions were not lifted by a certain date. The sanctions were not lifted, and the planes took to the air in support of the Libyan people and the value of the leadership of Col. Gadhafi to so many African countries.

In honor of that courageous stand, Col. Gadhafi renamed the hall after the capital of Burkina Faso. It is one of the most elegant conference halls to be found anywhere on the African continent.

Col. Gadhafi’s 35-minute speech covered aid to Africa, which he rejected as Africa puts itself in the position of beggars to receive it. With the Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan, sitting on the stage, Col. Gadhafi also stressed that the “democracy” that is pushed by western nations should start at the UN, and even went so far as to state that the UN should be reformed. Advancing the developing of the United States of Africa would include a common currency for Africa, a national passport for the member states of the African Union and an AU parliament, he further outlined.

At the conference, the staff that accompanied Minister Farrakhan distributed three of his messages recorded on CD to the leaders from every African country and foreign officials from the Far East, as well as Europe: his May 25 press conference condemning the abuse of the Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention center; his May 3, 2004 press conference on the war and occupation in Iraq; and his May 2, 2005 press conference launching the Millions More Movement in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March. Minister Farrakhan also held interviews with French TV, BBC, Libyan TV and Japanese and Chinese media. During his interaction with a host of presidents from across the African continent, he was invited to visit many of their countries.

At the close of the session, Minister Farrakhan journeyed to Tripoli where he was received by Dr. Muhammad Ahmed Sherif, the secretary-general of the Islamic Call Society. He met with the new president of Mali, Amadou Toumani Toure, as well as Dr. Mohammed ibn Chambas, secretary-general of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States), a dear friend of Minister Farrakhan who while in school in America attended many Nation of Islam mosque meetings.

Col. Gadhafi expressed that he was very happy to see Minister Farrakhan in Africa after so many years and invited him to attend a special dinner as an honored guest among other heads of state.

Note: While this article is dated it is still important as it examines the world of Hip Hop, the message of Hip Hop and the messangers of Hip Hop. Hip Hop is composed of two dynamics. There is the vehicle of music and the message that is contained in its images and lyrics. The emergence of Hip Hop has been created by a generation projecting plenty of smoke but little fire.

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