Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, on Jan.15 called upon his peers to focus on the appointment of one president to lead Africa when the forthcoming African Union (AU) summit meets soon.
Mugabe said the summit should discuss the appointment of a 'President of Africa' to foster unity among Africans and ensure that member states adhere to the founding principles of the original Organization of African Unity (OAU).
"Yes, we need a President for Africa," Mugabe said. "That is what we are going to discuss at the AU summit. Africa is not a united continent. We are not at the stage our founding fathers wanted us to be when the organ was formed," he is reported as saying by the Zimbabwe publication News Day.
Addressing journalists at State House in Harare alongside his guest, Thomas Boni Yayi, the president of Benin, who is also the outgoing AU chairman, Mugabe said the AU had failed to integrate Africans, with some only seeing themselves in the context of Anglophones and others Francophones.
The proposal to set up a 'United States of Africa' was first mooted by the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1999 as a way of ending the continent's conflicts, but it failed to gain enough support from his African counterparts, including Uganda's president Museveni-- with some doubting Gaddafi's real motive.
But Mugabe emphasized Africa should have one president who would help fight divisions and move Africa to a continental power from the regional shell he claimed it is today.
Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe for over 30 years and is only 36 days shy of his 90th birthday said he was pleased that even though Zimbabweans had political differences, they had realised they were guided by the same destiny and hoped the forthcoming elections scheduled for March would be peaceful. Mugabe is expected to stand again for another term in office.
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That is a good move Mr Mugabe but don't forgot to solve africans conflicts like South Sudan & North Sudan ( AFRICA UNITE )
Not possible in our life-time. This will be harder than "Noah's Ark"-One tribe there, another tribe here, french speakers on one side, English speakers on the other-side,Portuguese speaking Africans at the left or center and son on and so forth. Besides, is it not the same thing that was submitted by the late brother Gaddafi of Libya? Let Mugabe relinquish his post first before thinking of becoming the first President of the "United States of Africa". If it materializes, my village,Akassa in Bayelsa State Nigeria should be the HQ.
Spoken like a jackass. How can that be possible when even 54 of them (African presidents)cannot manage Africa. Once again Mugabe is only trying to create a new piece of a useless topic to divert attention from his failures at home. Think back of Zimbabwe prior to MDC when a loaf of bread cost billions of Zim dollars and then imagine an Africa run by the same useless Mugabe crowd. Geez.
IT MAY NOT BE IN SOME AFRICANS LIFE TIME; BUT TO BE SURE, IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN; AND THUS, IT'S GOING TO BE A REALITY AND DREAM THAT WILL COME TRUE FOR THE CONTINENT AND ALL AFRICANS.
Karamba; in a political scientistical term, have you heard of voting or contesting when a/an individual runs for a/an official position?? If you haven't, I will urge you to do so. Why? Because Ignorant isn't only a desease but a devastated blow to the mind-set.
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