Africa: The Key To A Successful African Union

opinion

There is perhaps no continent or no people that need unity than Africa and Africans. It is true that much of our plight in Africa is a result of the colonial legacy. But much of Africa's problems can only be explained by the abject failures of its children, particularly its rulers.

There is no place in Africa, than in Ethiopia that colonialism has left its least foot prints. Perhaps a closer look at Ethiopia can give us a glimpse of what we don't need to perennially complain on the colonial past. Even by standards of most of Sub-Sahara Africa, Ethiopia remains to be the poorest country cyclically ravaged by multimillion killer famine and diseases. There is no reason for this to happen.

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