Abuja — African leaders once again failed to reach a consensus on the proposed African Union (AU) government, making their recently concluded AU summit end on a discordant note.
The African heads of state were however unanimous in their critique of Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe's stance of failing to dialogue with his opponent, Morgan Tvsangirai, thereby fuelling the political crises in the inflation-ridden country.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Ojo Maduekwe gave this revelation at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday following the AU Summit held in Sham el Sheik, Egypt. He said the African leaders have agreed to hold an extraordinary summit of the AU in January next year in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to further deliberate on the issue of a joint government.
He added that the debates on the AU government have divided the union, "but more work needs to be done because most of the member states are not yet ready to surrender their sovereignty to a union government."
"Some of these countries say they want a Union Government but want to hold on to their constitutions, which would be the first thing to disappear when the Union Government appears"
The minister further noted that most of these nations were not entirely committed to the cause, an argument he professed to have laid before the group at Sham el Sheik.
Criticising the intolerance of many African nations to other Africans, especially in the deportation of fellow Africans, Maduekwe said, "Unless we begin to open our borders, all these talks will not be realised. If it is not handled with sincerity, then great damage would be done to this laudable initiative. We do not want to be seen as stumbling blocks but our position is to be realistic."
Regarding Mugabe, the AU adopted a resolution, which called on the main parties to the crisis in Zimbabwe to honour their joint commitment to dialogue.
He however said the Zimbabwean president still blatantly refused to dialogue with his opposition, questioning the right of fellow African leaders to condemn elections in his country, saying "those who live in glass houses should not throw stones."
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WHO IS THIS AFRICAN LEADERS THEY ARE NOT REPRSENTING US AND HOW THEY AGREE, BECUASE EVEN THEY DIDNT DO ANY GOOD THINGS FOR OUR COUNTRY HOW CAN THEY WILL DO FOR THE WHOLE AFRICA. THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE.
MAY BE PRESIDENT GHADFI HE WILL BE THE PRESIDENT OF AFRICA BECAUSE HE HAVE A GOOD EXPERIENCE FOR HELPING RABLES TO DESTROY CNTY.
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I believe a Union Government will take place and it will be wherein there's a MOST prominent individual from each corner of Africa that is so much influencial and very much respectful. These four - five individuals will be the people who will head the Union Government of Africa while at the same time there are still president for each countries in Africa. The four - five individual who will be elected by the Africa Union will be passing most of the works to be done through the presidents of Africa. So, let's stop doubting our leaders for they now know the best for Africa; and as for Gadafi, he has done a lot for Africa. Let's start thinking positive instead of negatives. Only the African Leaders know what they Africa Union is all about. I think there are no more sellers as much as in the colonial days. Africa will see the light!!!
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There are Africans who do not trust any attempt to be dominated by those foreign occupiers who have been occupying African soil for the past 1400 years, and who introduced the slave trade in Africa, who distroyed Ghana, Nubia, the Swahili Coasts, Mali, Songhai and other African civilizations and who SUPPORT OR STAND BY AND WATCH GENOCIDE OCCUR IN SUDAN AND SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA.
Africans with any sense of pride will never allow themselves to be under such people.
Before we can UNITE INTO A SUPERSTATE, WE HAVE TO STRENGTHEN THE 'ECONOMIC BLOCKS' THAT EXIST ALREADY. We also have to CREATE A SEPARATE 'BLACK AFRICAN LEAGUE' that takes care of issues pertaining to Black Africans, like global racism, sanctified racism, disrespect for Africans,and mistreatment of Black Africans -- WHICH OCCUR IN 'OCCUPIED' NORTHERN AFRICA DOMINATED BY SEMITIC PEOPLE.
There has to be at least three strong regional BLOCKS; EACH WITH ABOUT 300,000,000 PEOPLE WHO CAN STAND UP TO ANY SUPERPOWER IN THE WORLD.
ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) must work toward full integration into ONE STRONG AND POWERFUL NATION - That was what we had during the Mali/Ghana/Songhai Empires and the Forest Kingdoms (Yoruba, Benin, IGBO-IKWU, Nok-Wagadu (3000 BC to 500 AD), see more on this http://blackafricanamericansunited.blogspot.com also see 'Susu Economics,' http://www.authorhouse.com and 'Susu and Susunomics,' http://www.iuniverse.com and http://www.sexyaabooksculture.blogspot.com )
The African Union has been trying to bring about peace and tranquility in Sudan -- WHO STEPS IN THE WAY OF AFRICANS TO BRING PEACE TO THEIR NATIONS --- THOSE WHO VETO IN THE UNITED NATIONS AND THOSE WHO STAND BY AND JOIN WITH THE OPPRESSORS AND GENOCIDISTS OF AFRICAN PEOPLE.
These same people want a 'union' where THEY CAN CARRY OUT A SCHEME OF GENOCIDE AND 'SEMITIZATION' ON BLACK AFRICANS, WHILE WE STAND ASIDE AND OBSERVE AND ARE HELPLESS TO STOP IT.
Africa needs to build three strong super-blocks with open borders, a united economy, expansion of population, revival of culture, the use of a strong regional language (a combination of Swahili and Mandinga or Swahili and Yoruba, or Swahili and Zulu, or simply Swahili as regional language while keeping the national and ethnic languages -- THE USE OF AFRICAN ALPHABETS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTING OF AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THOSE WHO MAY STEAL THEM (LIKE THE KENTE CLOTH OF GHANA).
The other thing Africans must do is REMEMBER WHICH GROUP OF AFRICANS HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF SKILLED PEOPLE - WHO ARE IDLE OR WHOSE SKILLS HELP OTHER PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, AND NOT AFRICANS (due to the old colonial trick played on us of hating those of our people in the Americas)?
It is the African Diaspora of North America, the Caribbean and Brazil -- it is where the top African/Black scientists, businessmen, educators, engineers, inventors live.
It is the skills and talents of African-America's great agricultural and technical colleges and Universities that have helped to build both the political, cultural and agricultural development in some African nations.
After all, Blacks in the US have been in the SPACE PROGRAM FOR OVER 40 YEARS -- YET, HOW MANY NATIONS IN AFRICA HAVE A 'SPACE PROGRAM' USING THE TALENTS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO HELP DEVELOP THAT PROGRAM?
How many African nations use the talents in agriculture, genetics and other important sciences that African-American universities and colleges teach.
What we do in Africa is allow 'missionaries' to trick us into distroying our indigenous cultures and our indigenous civilizations and religion (many that are based on practical science, like the medicines of Vadu - which were studied by American scientists -- see nationalgeographic.com - or the secrets of 'mindpower' Orisha that is sought out by scientists.
Instead of preserving these ancient gifts in Africa, we allow our people to kneel before the shrine or stone 'God' of other people, while they take what we created and use it for themselves.
Shockingly, today in America more WHITES STUDY IFA AND ORISHA while their 'missionaries' are telling Africans to reject their traditional religions.
Africa must rise, but we have to begin to recognize WHAT THE SCHEMES OF OTHER PEOPLE MAY BE.
A nation like Nigeria or South Africa or Kenya in a ONE AFRICA UNION WITH AN AFRICAN POPULATION OF 2,000,000,000 (TWO BILLION) IN THE NEXT FIVE TO TEN YEARS IS GREATLY NEEDED.
Yet, Africans south of Sudan and Mauritania MUST NOT FORGET THE TRICKS AND SCHEMES OF THOSE IN NORTHERN AFRICA WHOSE AGENDA IS TO SPREAD CONFLICT IN AFRICA (IN LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE, RWANDA, KENYA, ETHIOPIA, SUDAN, CHAD AND ELSEWHERE).
As long as Africans cannot trust these North Africans with their pretense of wanting 'UNION,' when they are supporting people who are trying to bring Africans under foreign religions and foreign culture, THEN ON NIGERIAN, SOUTH AFRICAN, CONGOLESE, KENYAN, ZIMBABWEAN OR ANY OF US WHO KNOW WHAT DOMINATION AND COLONIALISM IS WILL GET INTO A 'UNION' WHERE ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE OR ONE 'DICTATORY' CAN OPEN OUR BORDERS AND LET FLOODS OF PEOPLE FROM NORTHERN AFRICA OR WESTERN ASIA FLOOD INTO OUR ANCIENT LANDS AND DO TO US WHAT IS BEING DONE TO SUDANESE NILOTIC AND NIGER-KORDOFANIAN PEOPLE.
We have therefore to create strong regional blocks of BLACK AFRICAN STATES WITH SIMILAR CULTURES, SIMILAR TYPES OF PEOPLE AND SIMILAR OBJECTIVES.
Those who want to bring Africa under the control of the Northern occupiers may want one united African nation on the African continent, BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, WE HAVE TO UNITE THE REGIONAL AFRICAN STATES UNDER THE AFRICANIST AGENDA OF TAKING CARE OF AFRICANS FIRST AND FOREMOST.
A United States of Africa can occur, but so can:
A United States and Kingdoms of West Africa A East African Federation A Union of Southern African States A Congo-Angola-Gabon-Equitorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville UNION OF STATES can also occur.
These 'unions' already exist in the various economic 'blocks' NOW WHAT HAS TO BE DONE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BLACK AFRICAN MAJORITY ARE NOT FOOLED TO OPEN AFRICA WHERE FOREIGN INVADERS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND ELSEWHERE START TO POUR INTO AFRICAN LAND BECAUSE THOSE FROM NORTHERN AFRICA WITH AN AGENDA OF OCCUPATION HAD THAT AS THEIR AGENDA IN THE FIRST PLACE.
African want unity, but ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
UNIFICATION MUST BEGIN AMONG BLACK AFRICANS FIRST WHO RESPECT AND FOLLOW AFRICAN CULTURE, RELIGIONS, LANGUAGES AND HISTORY.
People who want to SPREAD THE DOMINATION OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN NATIONS INTO AFRICAN LAND CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO GAIN CONTROL OF AFRICA'S 'UNITED STATES' BECAUSE THEY WILL HAVE POWER TO CHANGE THE VERY FACE OF AFRICA. AFRICANS CANNOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.
UNITY HAS TO BE UNITY AMONG BLACK AFRICANS, FIRST AND FOREMOST.
The first thing the African Union (AU)has to do is to agree on a unified military command to intervene in any African country where there is crisis like the one in Kenya and Zimbabwe,and Sudan By so doing they can maintain peace in the continent with out the intervention of external powers.The next thing is to unify their economic powers by creating regional curencies,and integrated banking industry.Then they can move on to the construction of roads to join all the countries together by road to ensure free movement of comercial activities.If this sort of comercial interactions prove successful then the need may arise to have a common currency,and a representative body to take care of their foreign affairs so that when they speak with one voice,the world will hear them.