I firmly believe Africa has no hope outside of colonization. I'm betting the Chinese, simply because they can put together a cohesive foreign policy that will endure longer than a single American political cycle or dual term President.
Posted on 07/05/2007 12:02:10 AM PDT by Wiz
ACCRA (AFP) - The drive towards forging a United States of Africa was running out of steam Wednesday as leaders filed away from a summit without agreeing on a timeline for creating a new government for the continent.
The three-day summit in Ghana, which wrapped up shortly before midnight on Tuesday, was devoted to a grand debate on a union government with burning issues such as Darfur and Somalia barely getting a look in.
But when host President John Kufuor delivered a closing declaration, it was clear that leaders who favour a gradual approach towards integration had stymied the fast-track ambitions of Libya's Moamer Kadhafi and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade.
In the absence of any timetable, Kufuor announced an audit of the current executive body, the African Union commission, and the commissioning of four studies on the prospects of a new government.
"Africa shall evolve," he told journalists. "It's not a revolution we are invoking so we cannot give you a timeline."
One of the studies will focus on "the contents of the union government concept and its relations with national governments" while another will examine its "domains of competence and impact ... on sovereignty".
The others will concentrate on the "elaboration of a road map and timeframe for establishing the union government" and how such a project would be funded.
The scope of the topics under review illustrate the lack of consensus among leaders of the world's poorest continent on how they want to move forward.
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... and how such a project would be funded.By massive transfers of wealth from the G8 etc. How else? If it does not require someone else to pay for it, no African state will support it.
I firmly believe Africa has no hope outside of colonization. I'm betting the Chinese, simply because they can put together a cohesive foreign policy that will endure longer than a single American political cycle or dual term President.
Africa doesn’t really need a continental dictatorship, but as long as they pay for it themselves, go for it.
First thing is to have something they actually want to do such as foster commerce. Fostering gov't corruption is not as lofty a goal as it used to be.
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