Date: 2/16/09
To:
University of Ghana
Department of Political Science
PO Box 25, Ghana, Legon
Tel: 233-21-501967
Message:
Dictatorship For Governorship
You, young Africans better start having your voice heard at those Africa Union Summits because your future is a stake. You, young Africans better start making the Africa’s politics work for the people of Africa.
What will you say about trading Dictator’s position for a Governor’s Appointment - United States of Africa ? Will the Head of States give up their present position for a ten year appointment as the Governor of a United States of Africa appointment? How many Heads of States can assure themselves that they will be in their a ruling position for the next ten years? There are no guarantees. This could be the negotiation tool used to transform all the 53 African’s Countries to a U.S.A.
You may ask - what about the African’s people right to vote? The African’s people will have their chance. But for now - the task is to create a peaceful - negotiation tool to transform the present situation to an United States of Africa. To remain in office after the ten year period; they will have to be re-elected
Those Africans who are selling Africa out by pumping millions and millions barrels of oil for African’s soil - trying to get all they can; while the getting is good, are not going to give a … ten or twenty years form now when they are dead and gone and/or all the oil is gone. So, you young Africans better start demanding that your government start doing what is best for Africa and your future. You can not do any better than supporting Col Guaddafi and his efforts to establish an United States of Africa. Do all you can to support
his efforts. I can not tell you what to do because I am two-thousand miles or so away (U.S.A.). I started to say - start a Country wide partition with the United Nations to demand that Africa transform it government into a United Government (based on human rights needs and unjust system of government), but it appears that Col Gaddafi may have future plans to promote the idea of an United States of Africa that young people can get involved in. It is my opinion that Africa needs young people to run it government. It is my opinion that most of the old Leaders are shell shock and war weary from the fight for Independent, struggle against the Apartheid, and the war against dictator’s.
On one of the web site, it had a statement for the readers to respond to. The statement was “Gaddafi Condemns Africa Democracy.” “The new African Union (AU) chairman, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has said that multi-party democracy in Africa lead to bloodshed.”
My reply to the above statement was:
If they are not civilized enough to deserve an open system of government, then what good will it do? I do not think it is so much as to the system of government all the fuss is about, I think the leaders of Africa use that as an excuse for violent as Gaddafi quoted, for example, the violent following the Kenya election.
It seems that some Africa’s leaders use African Democracy to promote violent and disorder to obtain UN funds. Africans Leaders are using African politic for corrupt means. Take the incident in Zimbabwe. All that disorder and lack of cooperation among policies parties were unnecessary and unjustified. Africans Leaders are using politic for corrupt means and are not accomplishing anything worthwhile for the African people. I blame it on Foreign aid. What happens when they get the Foreign aid, !Nothing. Does the people benefit for the Foreign aid? !Definite - No. Does the Foreign aid help build the infrastructure of Africa? Again, Again and Again - No, No - No.
The more I read and study as to what is going on in Africa; the more I become convince that the majority of the Africa Leaders are using Africa
politic as a scam. I truly - agree with Col. Gaddafi in condemning Africa democracy
Quite a few people are concerned about Col. Gaddafi - AU appointment. They seem to fear his political and economic policies. But keep in mind that AFRICA NEEDS TO DO WHA IS BEST FOR AFRICA.
I am an American and I love my Country. I love its economic system and most things about America. But when it comes to Africa I have to say that Africa has to do what is BEST for Africa. And this is where I feel that Col. Gaddafi is the best man suitable for that task. He is the one person I feel can unite Africa if anyone can. I hope that the AU, its Members, African Leaders and the African’s people will get behind Col. Gaddafi and unite Africa.
As I said in one of my other posting; don’t let Africa get robbed again. Africa was robbed when Dr. Kwane Nkrumah of Ghana was overthrown. Don’t let that happen again Africa. Don’t let that happen again.
I, too was concerned about Gaddafi’s economic system because I did not know too much about it. To sheds some light on that subject here is a quote from one of the writers about Col. Gaddafi economic situation in Libya:
viva Gaddafi, i for one supported Gaddafi, to unite
africa, It is a dream but it can come to reality if we
african realise it. Gaddafi is a good ruler in africa, if
u visit libya u will see a big difference, most libyan
have food on there table every blessed day, libya
economy is strong and the country is develop, if
we have twenty of Gaddafi in africa, africa should
have been the best continent in the world, All
african please get up and support Gaddafi sierra
leonean living in Germany
festus saidu boyce kargbo, nurnberg germany
Thank you
Friday, February 13, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Quote fom source:
Osagyfo Dr Kwane Nkrumah: Remembering Africa’s
most influential and greatest in the 21st century
Friday, 24 February 2006
"24 February 1966 could be described as one of Africa’s darkest days. It was the day that Nkrumah was overthrown by a military coup with the support of the American CIA. Nkrumah was not only passionate about Africa but he was obsessed with the unity of Africa.
He put Africa’s interest above that of Ghana by declaring in one of his most emotional and moving speeches that “The independence of Ghana was meaningless unless the whole of Africa was liberated from colonial rule”.
Nkrumah’s importance to African political practice does not lie in the fact that he led the first country in tropical Africa to gain independence (1957). Its significant contribution stems from Nkrumah’s introduction to the African political struggle, the theory and practice of “mass movement”. Until then, politics was preserved for the educated elites, lawyers, civil servants, journalists, progressive school teachers and disgruntled intellectuals. The politics of these elites was limited to the demands for equality with the colonialists, better working conditions and privileges for senior civil servants or against racial discrimination. It was not until Nkrumah spearheaded the formation of a militant political movement with one principal and concrete political demand: Self-Government Now. He did not appeal to the British Government to grant them their demand, but he made the masses aware of the need to govern themselves. And he achieved this through mass strength and determination of the Ghanaian people to bring about the desired goal. The people in turn responded to his trust and confidence in them by giving him their whole-hearted support.
It was not until 1947, when Nkrumah went back to Ghana that Pan-Africanism was elevated from the realm of an ideal, to that of a concrete, mass-based political practice. Nkrumah launched the Conventional People’s Party (CPP) in 1942. Nkrumah’s CPP won independence for Ghana in 1957 and in 1958, he hosted the All-African People’s Conference (AAPC). It was the first post-Manchester conference, which sought to put into practice on the African continent that vision of liberation and socialism expressed in 1945.
The AAPC brought together for the first time all liberation movements in Africa. As stated by my former lecturer, Abdou Rahman Muhammed Babu when the delegations of the Pan-African Movement for East and Central Africa stopped over at Congo in 1958, they discovered Patrice Lumumba and his Congolese comrades who were not aware of the impending All-African People’s Conference, although it had been widely publicised all over Africa. For soon as Nkrumah was informed of the impending participation of the Congolese delegation, he gave instruction that they should see him as soon as they arrived, and when he eventually met them, he requested them to stay longer in Accra after the conference was over. Ghana’s commitment to Congo’s independence henceforth was to become Nkrumah’s obsession
Only 14 months after Lumumba’s visit, the Congo was liberated. But the significance of the Accra conference was even deeper than the liberation of Congo. With the influence of Frank Fannon and the Algerian delegation, the theme of the conference was transformed from a non-violent liberation struggle to the “struggle by any means, including violence”. This was a decisive departure from the Manchester conference which favoured Ghandhian non-violence and passive resistance to colonialism.
This changed the form of the liberation struggle, and there was a proliferation of the Africa-wide Ghana-inspired “mass parties” involving entire populations. It forced the colonialist to accept, in the words of Harold Macmillan, then British Prime Minister, speaking to South Africa’s white dominant parliament in 1961 that the “wind of change was blowing across Africa.” If the 1945 Manchester meeting ushered in the epoch of hope and great expectations, the 1958 the Accra meeting concretised those hopes and expectations by making Africa no longer governable by the colonialists. One by one, African countries began to win their independence.
After inspiring the independence of most African countries, Nkrumah moved on to ensure the unity of Africa. As stated in his speech delivered in 1963, at the founding conference of the OAU, “we have already reached the stage where we must unite or sink into that condition which has made Latin America the unwilling and distressed prey of imperialism after one-and-a-half centuries of political independence. He further added that not one of us working singly and individually can successfully attain the fullest development. Only a united Africa functioning under a union government can forcefully mobilise the material and moral resources or our separate countries and apply them efficiently and energetically to bring a rapid change in the condition of our people.”
Nkrumah’s idea of African unity was conceived as a means of fighting two scourges inflicted on Africa by colonialism. One was the fragmentation of the continent, which resulted in the weak and unviable states; second was poverty, which was a consequence of the fragmentation, extensive colonial exploitation and an illogical and primitive colonial, economic structure which obstructed development. These two scourges were inter-linked, designed to facilitate colonial domination and exploitation. It was impossible to abolish one without abolishing the other, both had to be tackled simultaneously, beginning with the institution of a basis for a continental unity.
Owing to the division between radical and conservative tendencies among independent African states at the time, the radicals had to compromise a number of their principles of unity so as to persuade the conservatives to join the organisation. Unfortunately, the inclusion of the conservative states turned the OAU into a moribund institution. The conservatives’ first success in obstructing the move towards continental unity was achieved at the OAU Cairo summit in 1964. It was at this crucial conference that Julius Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, cunningly pushed through a resolution which urged the OAU to accept the colonial borders as permanent, recognised frontiers of the OAU member states. This move was in collaboration with Emperor Haile Selasie of Ethiopia, who one year earlier had annexed Eritrea. The underlying motive of the resolution was to frustrate Nkrumah and his Pan-Africanist ideals, though Nyerere claimed that the intention was to minimise border conflicts in Africa. The resolution was carried by a simple majority and became a key binding principle of the OAU Charter. Ironically, instead of abolishing Africa’s primary malady of disunity, the OAU encouraged it.
Secondly, the conservatives strove to make the OAU serve their interest and not those of Africa as a whole by altering the balance of forces on the continent in favour of the conservatives rather than the radicals who were still dominant in African politics. Beginning with Ben Bella of Algeria in 1965 and Nkrumah in 1966, the conservatives in collaboration with their ex-colonial masters, engineered the overthrow of radical leaders via military coups. Henceforth, the OAU ceased to be an instrument of the Pan-African revolutionary change and became an apologist or the statusquo. Even the liberation of the remaining colonies was conceived in the context of maintaining this statusquo. It did not take long for Nyerere himself, the architect of the OAU statusquo, to publicly admit in 1972 that the OAU had become no more than a “trade union of Africa’s heads of state.”
According to Baffour Ankomah of the New African magazine, Nkrumah was not only a thinker, visionary and orator but also a doer. Nkrumah knew that Africa’s future and prosperity lay with rapid industrialisation, to create the goods and jobs that would economically empower the people of the continent. As such, he set out to industrialise Ghana in one generation as a guide for the continent. By the time his Government was overthrown in that dreadful coup of 1966, he had established 68 sprawling state-owned factories producing every need of the Ghanaian people, and this was within the space of nine (9) short years. Among the factories were a distillery, a coconut oil factory, a brewery, a milk-processing plant, a lorry and bicycle plant, a modern oil refinery, an iron and steel works, a flour mill, sugar, textile, cement factories, shoe factory, a glass factory, a tyre factory, a meat processing factory, two canneries for fruits and tomatoes, a chocolate factory etc. This was in addition to building the huge hydro-electric plant at Akosombo, the nations major source of electricity supply, a motorway from Accra to Tema, expanding
To repair the damage to Africa from colonialism of Africa, It Must Unite
The end
Is the Mugabe?
It is my opinion that Africa was robbed when Dr. Kwane Nkrumah was assassinated
I do not want to see Africa get rubbed again, therefor the African Union, African's Leaders and the African's Peoples should declare Afroca as a United States of Africa without delay. Africa has been robbed to long and too many time.
Osagyfo Dr Kwane Nkrumah: Remembering Africa’s
most influential and greatest in the 21st century
Friday, 24 February 2006
"24 February 1966 could be described as one of Africa’s darkest days. It was the day that Nkrumah was overthrown by a military coup with the support of the American CIA. Nkrumah was not only passionate about Africa but he was obsessed with the unity of Africa.
He put Africa’s interest above that of Ghana by declaring in one of his most emotional and moving speeches that “The independence of Ghana was meaningless unless the whole of Africa was liberated from colonial rule”.
Nkrumah’s importance to African political practice does not lie in the fact that he led the first country in tropical Africa to gain independence (1957). Its significant contribution stems from Nkrumah’s introduction to the African political struggle, the theory and practice of “mass movement”. Until then, politics was preserved for the educated elites, lawyers, civil servants, journalists, progressive school teachers and disgruntled intellectuals. The politics of these elites was limited to the demands for equality with the colonialists, better working conditions and privileges for senior civil servants or against racial discrimination. It was not until Nkrumah spearheaded the formation of a militant political movement with one principal and concrete political demand: Self-Government Now. He did not appeal to the British Government to grant them their demand, but he made the masses aware of the need to govern themselves. And he achieved this through mass strength and determination of the Ghanaian people to bring about the desired goal. The people in turn responded to his trust and confidence in them by giving him their whole-hearted support.
It was not until 1947, when Nkrumah went back to Ghana that Pan-Africanism was elevated from the realm of an ideal, to that of a concrete, mass-based political practice. Nkrumah launched the Conventional People’s Party (CPP) in 1942. Nkrumah’s CPP won independence for Ghana in 1957 and in 1958, he hosted the All-African People’s Conference (AAPC). It was the first post-Manchester conference, which sought to put into practice on the African continent that vision of liberation and socialism expressed in 1945.
The AAPC brought together for the first time all liberation movements in Africa. As stated by my former lecturer, Abdou Rahman Muhammed Babu when the delegations of the Pan-African Movement for East and Central Africa stopped over at Congo in 1958, they discovered Patrice Lumumba and his Congolese comrades who were not aware of the impending All-African People’s Conference, although it had been widely publicised all over Africa. For soon as Nkrumah was informed of the impending participation of the Congolese delegation, he gave instruction that they should see him as soon as they arrived, and when he eventually met them, he requested them to stay longer in Accra after the conference was over. Ghana’s commitment to Congo’s independence henceforth was to become Nkrumah’s obsession
Only 14 months after Lumumba’s visit, the Congo was liberated. But the significance of the Accra conference was even deeper than the liberation of Congo. With the influence of Frank Fannon and the Algerian delegation, the theme of the conference was transformed from a non-violent liberation struggle to the “struggle by any means, including violence”. This was a decisive departure from the Manchester conference which favoured Ghandhian non-violence and passive resistance to colonialism.
This changed the form of the liberation struggle, and there was a proliferation of the Africa-wide Ghana-inspired “mass parties” involving entire populations. It forced the colonialist to accept, in the words of Harold Macmillan, then British Prime Minister, speaking to South Africa’s white dominant parliament in 1961 that the “wind of change was blowing across Africa.” If the 1945 Manchester meeting ushered in the epoch of hope and great expectations, the 1958 the Accra meeting concretised those hopes and expectations by making Africa no longer governable by the colonialists. One by one, African countries began to win their independence.
After inspiring the independence of most African countries, Nkrumah moved on to ensure the unity of Africa. As stated in his speech delivered in 1963, at the founding conference of the OAU, “we have already reached the stage where we must unite or sink into that condition which has made Latin America the unwilling and distressed prey of imperialism after one-and-a-half centuries of political independence. He further added that not one of us working singly and individually can successfully attain the fullest development. Only a united Africa functioning under a union government can forcefully mobilise the material and moral resources or our separate countries and apply them efficiently and energetically to bring a rapid change in the condition of our people.”
Nkrumah’s idea of African unity was conceived as a means of fighting two scourges inflicted on Africa by colonialism. One was the fragmentation of the continent, which resulted in the weak and unviable states; second was poverty, which was a consequence of the fragmentation, extensive colonial exploitation and an illogical and primitive colonial, economic structure which obstructed development. These two scourges were inter-linked, designed to facilitate colonial domination and exploitation. It was impossible to abolish one without abolishing the other, both had to be tackled simultaneously, beginning with the institution of a basis for a continental unity.
Owing to the division between radical and conservative tendencies among independent African states at the time, the radicals had to compromise a number of their principles of unity so as to persuade the conservatives to join the organisation. Unfortunately, the inclusion of the conservative states turned the OAU into a moribund institution. The conservatives’ first success in obstructing the move towards continental unity was achieved at the OAU Cairo summit in 1964. It was at this crucial conference that Julius Nyerere, then President of Tanzania, cunningly pushed through a resolution which urged the OAU to accept the colonial borders as permanent, recognised frontiers of the OAU member states. This move was in collaboration with Emperor Haile Selasie of Ethiopia, who one year earlier had annexed Eritrea. The underlying motive of the resolution was to frustrate Nkrumah and his Pan-Africanist ideals, though Nyerere claimed that the intention was to minimise border conflicts in Africa. The resolution was carried by a simple majority and became a key binding principle of the OAU Charter. Ironically, instead of abolishing Africa’s primary malady of disunity, the OAU encouraged it.
Secondly, the conservatives strove to make the OAU serve their interest and not those of Africa as a whole by altering the balance of forces on the continent in favour of the conservatives rather than the radicals who were still dominant in African politics. Beginning with Ben Bella of Algeria in 1965 and Nkrumah in 1966, the conservatives in collaboration with their ex-colonial masters, engineered the overthrow of radical leaders via military coups. Henceforth, the OAU ceased to be an instrument of the Pan-African revolutionary change and became an apologist or the statusquo. Even the liberation of the remaining colonies was conceived in the context of maintaining this statusquo. It did not take long for Nyerere himself, the architect of the OAU statusquo, to publicly admit in 1972 that the OAU had become no more than a “trade union of Africa’s heads of state.”
According to Baffour Ankomah of the New African magazine, Nkrumah was not only a thinker, visionary and orator but also a doer. Nkrumah knew that Africa’s future and prosperity lay with rapid industrialisation, to create the goods and jobs that would economically empower the people of the continent. As such, he set out to industrialise Ghana in one generation as a guide for the continent. By the time his Government was overthrown in that dreadful coup of 1966, he had established 68 sprawling state-owned factories producing every need of the Ghanaian people, and this was within the space of nine (9) short years. Among the factories were a distillery, a coconut oil factory, a brewery, a milk-processing plant, a lorry and bicycle plant, a modern oil refinery, an iron and steel works, a flour mill, sugar, textile, cement factories, shoe factory, a glass factory, a tyre factory, a meat processing factory, two canneries for fruits and tomatoes, a chocolate factory etc. This was in addition to building the huge hydro-electric plant at Akosombo, the nations major source of electricity supply, a motorway from Accra to Tema, expanding
To repair the damage to Africa from colonialism of Africa, It Must Unite
The end
Is the Mugabe?
It is my opinion that Africa was robbed when Dr. Kwane Nkrumah was assassinated
I do not want to see Africa get rubbed again, therefor the African Union, African's Leaders and the African's Peoples should declare Afroca as a United States of Africa without delay. Africa has been robbed to long and too many time.
Mafabi on United States of Africa
by
Mafabi on United States of Africa
I did not want to distort this document by trying to quote parts of it, so I took the liberty of provided the document as it exist from the source:
David Mafabi of The Daily Monitor, Kampala, Uganda, wrote the following editorial in response to the African Union's proposal to form a 'United States of Africa.'
Will we ever witness a real United States of Africa? Or rather will our future generations ever do so? Learning about the United Nation's millennium goals got me thinking, why can't Africa write her own goals? It does not take a mathematician to figure out that Africa is the wealthiest continent on the planet. In every corner of this great continent there is an abundance of natural resources; minerals, oil, gas, gold, diamonds; which the developed world needs.
Any economist in any western country will gladly inform you that where demand exceeds supply prices are automatically higher. Not in Africa. Let me rephrase that: Western goods sold in Africa are naturally priced higher, but African goods sold here seem to go against the demand & supply rule.
At this juncture I am in the least bit interested in trade quotas or embargos simply because they were made effective a long time ago and were very well suited to the needs of colonial rulers. When our traders (not farmers) cry foul that United States and European farmers get subsidies - thus rendering our produce unsellable within their markets - I cannot help but think 'why send them our produce in the first place?' Isn't Africa starving to the point of extinction? Why should we spend sleepless nights at the thought of the United States not extending AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act) when we can make use of the clothes, let alone the export revenue we could earn from other African States?
Wouldn't it be nice for Starbucks Coffee Company to beg countries up and down this continent to sell them coffee beans? Imagine the great British chocolate company Cadbury's pleading to buy cocoa pods from Ghana based on prices that Ghana sets, not the price that was set five or six generations back.
No doubt politicians may read this and pass it off (claiming) that I am talking rubbish since I do not know how prices are set in the first place. That may be true, but I know one thing; and that is that Africans cannot be forced into selling anything that they do not want to - or be forced to sell their products at a set price. What they can do is to find buyers of their products without a set price or better still use their own products. I advocate for the latter: The U.N.'s millennium goal number Eight.
Ours would just be one: Self Sufficiency. This, in my opinion, would be best achieved once we have a united Africa. Africa has the potential to become a food basket for itself and beyond. As the world gets more disenchanted with the use of chemicals in drugs and food we could supply them with organic produce. It could also become the world's biggest jewelry shop, selling and storing gold, diamonds and other gemstones.
Why send diamonds to Brussels and India when people from those countries can come here and buy them with a sticker on them saying 'Made in Africa,' thus increasing tourism? The list is endless. But I hear many of you saying this is not new news. The only message that is new is my message of becoming self-sufficient first, before thinking about exporting.
Businessmen and politicians may say that exports bring in more revenue, but I say 'no wonder the rich get richer.' If forefathers in developed countries did not sacrifice to build their nations patriotically then future generations would not be enjoying the wealth they have today. If we treated this continent like one big country, imagine what quality of life we would have. Imagine Uganda producing only vegetables, Kenya producing only wheat, Tanzania producing only maize, etc. A place for (all) gold, another for diamonds etc. A full-fledged railway line cutting across the continent, sorting out problems of the landlocked countries. We would soon become a China or India - a place where they export more than they import - places which dictate to the rest of the world the price and quantity they send to it. Imagine the development we would enjoy.
But will this ever be achieved? I do not know about you, but my hopes are dim. If within Uganda we can oppose our own Seeya's development plans then how do we expect to co-operate with our neighboring countries? Will we be able to relinquish some of our monopolies to the
neighbors? Would we be able to abandon wearing designer clothes and choose to wear our own designed outfits? The East African Community is yet to become a reality. Will the United States of Africa ever see the light of day?
the end
by
Mafabi on United States of Africa
I did not want to distort this document by trying to quote parts of it, so I took the liberty of provided the document as it exist from the source:
David Mafabi of The Daily Monitor, Kampala, Uganda, wrote the following editorial in response to the African Union's proposal to form a 'United States of Africa.'
Will we ever witness a real United States of Africa? Or rather will our future generations ever do so? Learning about the United Nation's millennium goals got me thinking, why can't Africa write her own goals? It does not take a mathematician to figure out that Africa is the wealthiest continent on the planet. In every corner of this great continent there is an abundance of natural resources; minerals, oil, gas, gold, diamonds; which the developed world needs.
Any economist in any western country will gladly inform you that where demand exceeds supply prices are automatically higher. Not in Africa. Let me rephrase that: Western goods sold in Africa are naturally priced higher, but African goods sold here seem to go against the demand & supply rule.
At this juncture I am in the least bit interested in trade quotas or embargos simply because they were made effective a long time ago and were very well suited to the needs of colonial rulers. When our traders (not farmers) cry foul that United States and European farmers get subsidies - thus rendering our produce unsellable within their markets - I cannot help but think 'why send them our produce in the first place?' Isn't Africa starving to the point of extinction? Why should we spend sleepless nights at the thought of the United States not extending AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act) when we can make use of the clothes, let alone the export revenue we could earn from other African States?
Wouldn't it be nice for Starbucks Coffee Company to beg countries up and down this continent to sell them coffee beans? Imagine the great British chocolate company Cadbury's pleading to buy cocoa pods from Ghana based on prices that Ghana sets, not the price that was set five or six generations back.
No doubt politicians may read this and pass it off (claiming) that I am talking rubbish since I do not know how prices are set in the first place. That may be true, but I know one thing; and that is that Africans cannot be forced into selling anything that they do not want to - or be forced to sell their products at a set price. What they can do is to find buyers of their products without a set price or better still use their own products. I advocate for the latter: The U.N.'s millennium goal number Eight.
Ours would just be one: Self Sufficiency. This, in my opinion, would be best achieved once we have a united Africa. Africa has the potential to become a food basket for itself and beyond. As the world gets more disenchanted with the use of chemicals in drugs and food we could supply them with organic produce. It could also become the world's biggest jewelry shop, selling and storing gold, diamonds and other gemstones.
Why send diamonds to Brussels and India when people from those countries can come here and buy them with a sticker on them saying 'Made in Africa,' thus increasing tourism? The list is endless. But I hear many of you saying this is not new news. The only message that is new is my message of becoming self-sufficient first, before thinking about exporting.
Businessmen and politicians may say that exports bring in more revenue, but I say 'no wonder the rich get richer.' If forefathers in developed countries did not sacrifice to build their nations patriotically then future generations would not be enjoying the wealth they have today. If we treated this continent like one big country, imagine what quality of life we would have. Imagine Uganda producing only vegetables, Kenya producing only wheat, Tanzania producing only maize, etc. A place for (all) gold, another for diamonds etc. A full-fledged railway line cutting across the continent, sorting out problems of the landlocked countries. We would soon become a China or India - a place where they export more than they import - places which dictate to the rest of the world the price and quantity they send to it. Imagine the development we would enjoy.
But will this ever be achieved? I do not know about you, but my hopes are dim. If within Uganda we can oppose our own Seeya's development plans then how do we expect to co-operate with our neighboring countries? Will we be able to relinquish some of our monopolies to the
neighbors? Would we be able to abandon wearing designer clothes and choose to wear our own designed outfits? The East African Community is yet to become a reality. Will the United States of Africa ever see the light of day?
the end
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
An African Mandate - Forging A Nation
An Africa’s Mandate 2008 - Forging A Nation
As proposed by: Ernest L. Herron
Introduction
Every time the International Community try to put on a show - to show - the world - that, humanity and care do exist for the African’s Nations, they put on a show and sponsor a few aid’s programs, commit a few million dollars toward Aids and a few of the local diseases that still exist among African’s Nations. Two or three months latter the Aids epidemic gets even worse and the few little millions dollars in foreign aids is gone and never gotten to the people it suppose to have help. IT DEFINATE DIND NOT HELP BUILD THE INFRUSTRUCTURE OF AFRICA.
Now, all those so called champions of human rights and others can really do something that will actual benefit the development and progress of the African’s Nations by encouraging and supporting the establishing of an United States of Africa.
It is my understanding that the Africa Union at one time or another was referred to as “The Dictator’s Club.” If the Africa Union can not establish a United States of Africa, then it will be necessary to establish an International Organization who can do so. One who will also implement a Resolution in the United Nations that that will outlaw any form of Dictatorship government on African soil; based upon the history of Dictator’s rule.
Let me tell you a story. The 36th President of the United States of America - Lyndon B. Johnson had a dream to include ALL Americans in what was known as his “Great Society Program - A War On Poverty.” Who in their right mind do you think would oppose such a noble idea?
Former Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley refused to support a community project proposed by the late Dr. Martin L. King Jr., because the Federal Funds were not channeled through his office.
The Labor Department resented EEO Job Programs which was a part of Johnson’s War on Poverty Program. The Labor department claims that Johnson’s Job Programs undermined the Union wages. Therefore, the Labor Department was not an advocate of Johnson’s Job Programs.
Even City Halls - of various cities, resented Johnson’s “War On Poverty Programs; because City Hall claim that Johnson’s Great Society Program -War On Poverty undermined them as elected Officials. City Hall claimed that the programs - funding, supported Community Leader who would then run for their office. It was “hell,” not to mention all of the others problems the Nation faced.
Like Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Program - War on Poverty, I became concerned about all the negative news I was hearing, reading and saw on TV about Africa. Therefore, I decided to do some research on Africa. I remember seeing those old Tarzan movies on TV, reading and hearing all kinds of news about South
Africa and Africans struggle against the Apartheid, as well as Mandela struggle. I also read. or was aware of some - history - of Africa’s struggle to gain Independence from Colonialism. But, Africa History that struck me the most was, the desire and dreams of many African’s Leaders to “one day” see Africa as a United Africa, An United States of Africa.
I learned that most historians considered Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Program a failure. It bother me - how such a noble idea could fail. During such a research on Lyndon B. Johnson Administration; his Great Society Program , you may think that you took a trip to hell and back. I can not go into details about Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Program because time will not allow it. The point is, how can someone not accept the idea that a United Africa - An United States of Africa is not the best thing for Africa. Referencing - to the Africa Union Conference Accra 2007 in Accra, Ghana. The main agenda was to consider the possibility of creating An United States of Africa, which the Conference failed to do. But the door was left open for future consideration.
Practical everyone who knows anything about Africa will practically agree - that SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE. That is the purpose of this proposed MANDATE.
Purpose and Objective
Purpose: is too promote the idea of creating An United States Of Africa.
The objective is to create a Union Government - An United States Of Africa; comprising of all of the existing 53 African Nations - including all and excluding none. The United States of Africa is not to be a replicable of the European Union.
Background Data
Foreign Countries must understand that it is about time for the Africa’s Countries, as a United Africa to take on an Economic, Political and Social program THAT WILL BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE AFRICA’S CONTENIENT. For centuries, the Africa’s Nations have been enslaved; economically, politically and social. The Africa’s Nations’ -resources have been ravished by Foreign Countries without contributing to Africa development as a Nation. Therefore, the Africa Nations as a whole should cease any and all export of all Africa resources UNTIL the Objectives and Purposes are accomplished or meet through negotiations.
I ran upon a press release statement by the Embassy of Ethiopia on action by House Foreign Affairs Commission dated September 26, 2007. The press release was in response to House Foreign Affairs Commission actions concerning bill HR 2003, sponsored by Donald M. Payne, D-N.J., (dated 9/26/07). The statement was released by Samuel Assefa, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the United States. A portion of the reply by Mr. Assefa read as follows:
“….There can be no misunderstanding about the serious effects of what a small group of Congress members have wrought. This bill ignores the context of what is happening in the region. Ethiopia faces a serious threat from its neighbor Eritrea -- a country that the U.S. Department of State is considering listing as a state sponsor of terrorism, that has rejected democracy and a free press, and that provides no human rights to its citizens. Yet, rather than move against Eritrea, Mr. Payne chooses to condemn America's democratic ally: Ethiopia”
My personal comment about Mr. Assefa statement is, he and his Country were ready to condemn their brother (Eritrea) JUST TO SATIFY THE U.S. That old slave mentality. I can see why Africa have not gotten any where all these years.
Instead of he and his country focusing their energy and efforts toward stabilizing the Continent of Africa - Politically and Economically - he and his country were wasting energy trying to please the U.S. and they can now see where that have gotten them. This is where he and his Country have failed. This is what is wrong with Africa’s Foreign Policies; in the past and present, they are trying to please America instead of doing what is right for Africa.
Economic Plan
First of all. I always thought that Foreign Aid to Africa were a good thing, and praised the U.S. and other for doing so. Now, I am not so sure whether foreign aid is such a good idea for Africa. It is my opinion that the World Bank and IMF are just another form of slavery. Africa is a Country which is rich - in enough resources that, there is no need for Africa to go around BEGGING LIKE A DOG. That is ridiculous.
All Foreign Aid to Africa should be cut-off; to force the Africa Union, Africa’s Leaders and the African people to do what they must do to form a united Government. Any type of foreign Aid should be for the purpose of supporting an United States of Africa. Africa has what it takes to be a great nation, they just need to QUIT BEGGING - roll up their sleeves, and go to work and do what is best for Africa. Put Africa and its people.
U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson‘s “Great Society Program - War On Poverty Program” were funded through the U.S. Treasury - Budget. Africa should have a “War On Poverty” program declaring that ALL resources including land and especially oil and gas and all form of energy and wild life are properties of the people of Africa. The Nation Government (National Treasury of the United States of Africa) shall collect royalties from any and all business ventures involving Africa Resources as well as energy. The National Resource Department shall be the stewardship of such resources and will have the responsibility of collecting all royalties from those ventures.
Political Stability
Africa should have a Multi Africa Military Force which may be part of AFRICON - with the capability of putting down ANY conflicts on Africa soil. The first question that probably will arise is - whether the Force will have to deal with Dictators? The answer to this question is simple. There will be no Dictators. …. What? There will be no Dictators. There will be no such thing.
There will be no such thing as a coup. If a coup is attempted or occur - the leader engaging the coup (the leader who plan to take office as a result of the coup) will be put to death by a court of law.
The question of China and Democracy will be question. As the elected (recognized Governor of that Africa State - that Governor - will have the right to do business with any Countries that will allow the accomplishment of the overall economic goals of his State, the Region and the Nation to prosper.
The task of the Multi Africa Military Force ALSO will consist of protecting ALL the African’s States REGARDLESS of the Economic and Political views of its Governors.
I will put myself in the shoes of my African Brothers and Sisters by question the intentions of such a power force as AFRICON - on Africa’s soil. I will let the this document entitled, “An Africa Mandate 2008” answer that question.
As An United States of Africa the newly formed government must take a harsh role against Rebels, War Lords and other form of disorders. The minute a group of disappointed citizens as well as War Lords take up arms against their government their actions are no longer considered political. Their actions immediately is classified as TREASON and or TERROIST and is punished by death in a court of law. This is a must and must be understood by everyone. It will take something no less that this for Africa to get on the right road to recombining the Country it should be.
Proposed United States of Africa
Plan A:
Africans Leaders and the Africa Union must unite as one nation and declare themselves a United States of Africa; in so do doing, DECLARE - that - ANY form of Dictator’s rule is considered a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY therefore, is NOT ALLOWED ON AFRICA SOIL, and is enforced by the Multi-African Military Force which may also include AFRICON.
The United States of Africa should include ALL of the existing African Countries. NONE of the African’s Countries are to be exempted. By virtue of the fact that an Africa Country is on Africa soil Automatically makes it an United State of Africa.
The United States of Africa SHOULD NOT BE A COPY CAT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU). No qualifying criteria are required.
Plan A will also include all of Plan B.
Plan B
Plan B is to be use only if Plan A completely fail. It is my understanding that most leaders and supporters who supported a united government had began to considered the Accra, Ghana Summit as the last chance; but for some reasons the hope did not die in Ghana. And it appears that the decision to defer the discussion to establish a Union Government until their next summit in January 2009 was acceptable. Whether the support for the idea has lost any steam or not remains to be seen. .
Collation Of Forces:
If the Africans Leaders and the Africa Union - fail to unite as one nation and declare themselves An United States of Africa; then a Collation of Africa Nations, International Organizations, Civic Groups, and Individuals; that approve such an idea should proceed to take the steps to implement its creation before the United Nations Security Councils - headed by Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Senegal’s President Abdoulayne Wade.
First:
The Mandate is To DECLARE - that - ANY form of Dictator’s rule is considered a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY therefore, is NOT ALLOWED ON AFRICA SOIL, and is enforced by the Multi African Military Force which may also include AFRICON.
Next:
AS A RESULTS OF THE MANDATE, IT THEN DECLARES - ALL OF THE AFRICAN’S NATIONS AS ONE NATION - AN UNITED STATES OF AFRICA.
Declaration Of Unity
53 Countries - 53 United States:
The Mandate shall DECLARE that The United States of Africa shall include ALL of the existing African Countries. NONE of the African’s Countries are to be exempted. By virtue of the fact that the Arica Country is on Africa soil automatically makes it an United States of Africa.
The United States Of Africa Committee consisting of African’s Nations petition the United Nations Security Councils to Declared - That All Form Of Dictator’s Rule On African Soil Are Declared A Crime Against Humanity, And Is Not Allowed As A Form Of Government On African’s Soil. We Hereby Declare That All 53 African’s Nations From This Day Forward Be Known As The United States Of Africa in the name of the African people.
I hope that this can be the beginning of a Constitution Government for the Continent of Africa.
United States Of Africa Committee:
Establish a Committee - Known as: The United States of Africa Committee. Suggested Head of the Committee: (1) Former Secretary of the United Nation - Kofi A. Annan (Ghana) (2) Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. (3) Senegal’s President Abdoulayne Wade. .
Committee Members:
In addition to the Heads of the Committee: Members of the
Committee: (1) All of the Democratic African’s Nations
(2) Any other African’s Nations (3) International Organizations
(4) The African Union Association if they so Desire.(5) ANY Committee representing the People of ANY African Countries.
Host Country: Ethiopia
Capital: Gabon.
Governors:
Since many of the African’s Leaders are not going to be willing to give up their Rule or power; have them appointed as Governors of the Africa Country they present preside over for a ten year period.
I believe that the majorities of the Dictators did what they had to do; to become a free and independent Nation from Colonial rule and the Apartheid. They did what they had to do; and I do not condemn them. Africa is a large Country with many political and economic views. As time passed, many of them may have lost sight of a well planed objective and purpose. And, I feel that the only way Africa will progress is to become a United States of Africa. I feel that that time has come. It is my belief; that it is now time to move on, to a better Africa.
Many political and economic ideologies have had there changes and now it is time for Africa to become one Nation - A United States of Africa. It is my assumptions, that the leaders of the 53
African Countries; as members of the Africa Union truly believe in doing what is best for Africa and will support an United States of Africa. I really hate to think different. If their hope - their dream of Independent meant anything to them - then, complete that dream by uniting as one nation declaring Africa an United Government.
Election:
After the ten year period is over, there shall be an election in every African’s State - which will now be United States of Africa. The African’s people will elect ALL branches of their Representative Government. In this manner; the present Rulers will have had ten years, to prove they are worthy of being a representative Governor of the People of Africa. If they truly believe in Africa, and wish to do what is best for Africa they will accept such terms. Once the ten years are up - they can then run for re-election.
President/Vice President:
Have Libyan leader Col. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi appointed as the first president of the United Stats of Africa and Kopi Anna former United Nations Counsel General of Ghana appointed as Vice President.
United States of Africa Senate and Representative:
By being a United States of Africa; this will open the doors for many African’s Leaders, political science graduates as well as many Africans citizens to become U.S. Senators and U. S. Representative; as well as State Senators and State Representatives.. They will first - (and this is very important) accept All the challengers that most of the Heads of States at the July 2007 AU Conference in in Accra, Ghana claim they need to solve before coming a Union Government. It will be the duties as the U.S. Senate and U.S. Representatives and each State Senate and each State Representative to take on each of those tasks as a Representative of that Africa‘s State.
For Example:
“….Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki, a member of the gradualist camp, expressed strong support for unity yesterday. "The advantages of Africa's unification are enormous for our people. A unified Africa will have stronger bargaining power," he said.
But reflecting the views of many of the leaders, Kibaki added that at a recent conference on the issue in Kenya, "opinions were varied on the pace this process should take". Kibaki said Africa's eight regional economic communities should be the building blocs of a united continent and their integration must be accelerated….”
This is the purpose of becoming An United States of Africa. Under these conditions why wait. There is no need to wait.
Legislative Branch:
Have the members of the Africa Union (AU) appointed as the Legislative Branch of government. National Government. Except for those who will become Governors.
Judicial Branch
Have the Judicial Branch of Government created from Representatives of various African Nations. National Government.
Speaker of the House:
The President of Liberia, Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Military Force:
Create a Multi Africa Military Force as outlined in the section Conclusion/Political Stability. The military is to consist of at lease a 750,000 men. The military is to be well paid to dis-encourage corruption.
Forget The European Union (EU):
The United States of Africa IS NOT to be a copy-cat of the European Union (EU) Africa is to set its own standards. The idea is inclusion. The United States of Africa is to INCLUDE ALL the Africa Countries and EXCLUDE NONE. This is not to be an option; By-venture-of-the-fact-that an Africa Nation exist on Africa soil; AUTIMATICALL MAKES THAT AFRICA’S COUNTRIES An United State of Africa.. Europe consist of a number of European Countries; whereas, Africa is one Nation and there should be no need for a criteria to join. The idea is for ALL African Countries to be one United Nation - An United States of Africa.
The United Nations Role:
The United Nations should be used as a last resort to solving African’s problems.
The United States of Africa Committee will be responsible for implement the program under plan B. .
Summary
Every time the International Community try to put on a show - to show - the world - that, humanity and care do exist for the African’s Nations, they put on a show and sponsor a few aid’s programs, commit a few million dollars toward Aids and a few of the local diseases that still exist among African’s Nations. Two or three months latter the Aids epidemic gets even worse and the few little millions dollars in foreign aids is gone and never gotten to the people it suppose to have help. IT DEFINATE DIND NOT HELP BUILD THE INFRUSTRUCTURE OF AFRICA.
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As proposed by: Ernest L. Herron
Introduction
Every time the International Community try to put on a show - to show - the world - that, humanity and care do exist for the African’s Nations, they put on a show and sponsor a few aid’s programs, commit a few million dollars toward Aids and a few of the local diseases that still exist among African’s Nations. Two or three months latter the Aids epidemic gets even worse and the few little millions dollars in foreign aids is gone and never gotten to the people it suppose to have help. IT DEFINATE DIND NOT HELP BUILD THE INFRUSTRUCTURE OF AFRICA.
Now, all those so called champions of human rights and others can really do something that will actual benefit the development and progress of the African’s Nations by encouraging and supporting the establishing of an United States of Africa.
It is my understanding that the Africa Union at one time or another was referred to as “The Dictator’s Club.” If the Africa Union can not establish a United States of Africa, then it will be necessary to establish an International Organization who can do so. One who will also implement a Resolution in the United Nations that that will outlaw any form of Dictatorship government on African soil; based upon the history of Dictator’s rule.
Let me tell you a story. The 36th President of the United States of America - Lyndon B. Johnson had a dream to include ALL Americans in what was known as his “Great Society Program - A War On Poverty.” Who in their right mind do you think would oppose such a noble idea?
Former Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley refused to support a community project proposed by the late Dr. Martin L. King Jr., because the Federal Funds were not channeled through his office.
The Labor Department resented EEO Job Programs which was a part of Johnson’s War on Poverty Program. The Labor department claims that Johnson’s Job Programs undermined the Union wages. Therefore, the Labor Department was not an advocate of Johnson’s Job Programs.
Even City Halls - of various cities, resented Johnson’s “War On Poverty Programs; because City Hall claim that Johnson’s Great Society Program -War On Poverty undermined them as elected Officials. City Hall claimed that the programs - funding, supported Community Leader who would then run for their office. It was “hell,” not to mention all of the others problems the Nation faced.
Like Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Program - War on Poverty, I became concerned about all the negative news I was hearing, reading and saw on TV about Africa. Therefore, I decided to do some research on Africa. I remember seeing those old Tarzan movies on TV, reading and hearing all kinds of news about South
Africa and Africans struggle against the Apartheid, as well as Mandela struggle. I also read. or was aware of some - history - of Africa’s struggle to gain Independence from Colonialism. But, Africa History that struck me the most was, the desire and dreams of many African’s Leaders to “one day” see Africa as a United Africa, An United States of Africa.
I learned that most historians considered Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Program a failure. It bother me - how such a noble idea could fail. During such a research on Lyndon B. Johnson Administration; his Great Society Program , you may think that you took a trip to hell and back. I can not go into details about Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society Program because time will not allow it. The point is, how can someone not accept the idea that a United Africa - An United States of Africa is not the best thing for Africa. Referencing - to the Africa Union Conference Accra 2007 in Accra, Ghana. The main agenda was to consider the possibility of creating An United States of Africa, which the Conference failed to do. But the door was left open for future consideration.
Practical everyone who knows anything about Africa will practically agree - that SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE. That is the purpose of this proposed MANDATE.
Purpose and Objective
Purpose: is too promote the idea of creating An United States Of Africa.
The objective is to create a Union Government - An United States Of Africa; comprising of all of the existing 53 African Nations - including all and excluding none. The United States of Africa is not to be a replicable of the European Union.
Background Data
Foreign Countries must understand that it is about time for the Africa’s Countries, as a United Africa to take on an Economic, Political and Social program THAT WILL BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE AFRICA’S CONTENIENT. For centuries, the Africa’s Nations have been enslaved; economically, politically and social. The Africa’s Nations’ -resources have been ravished by Foreign Countries without contributing to Africa development as a Nation. Therefore, the Africa Nations as a whole should cease any and all export of all Africa resources UNTIL the Objectives and Purposes are accomplished or meet through negotiations.
I ran upon a press release statement by the Embassy of Ethiopia on action by House Foreign Affairs Commission dated September 26, 2007. The press release was in response to House Foreign Affairs Commission actions concerning bill HR 2003, sponsored by Donald M. Payne, D-N.J., (dated 9/26/07). The statement was released by Samuel Assefa, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the United States. A portion of the reply by Mr. Assefa read as follows:
“….There can be no misunderstanding about the serious effects of what a small group of Congress members have wrought. This bill ignores the context of what is happening in the region. Ethiopia faces a serious threat from its neighbor Eritrea -- a country that the U.S. Department of State is considering listing as a state sponsor of terrorism, that has rejected democracy and a free press, and that provides no human rights to its citizens. Yet, rather than move against Eritrea, Mr. Payne chooses to condemn America's democratic ally: Ethiopia”
My personal comment about Mr. Assefa statement is, he and his Country were ready to condemn their brother (Eritrea) JUST TO SATIFY THE U.S. That old slave mentality. I can see why Africa have not gotten any where all these years.
Instead of he and his country focusing their energy and efforts toward stabilizing the Continent of Africa - Politically and Economically - he and his country were wasting energy trying to please the U.S. and they can now see where that have gotten them. This is where he and his Country have failed. This is what is wrong with Africa’s Foreign Policies; in the past and present, they are trying to please America instead of doing what is right for Africa.
Economic Plan
First of all. I always thought that Foreign Aid to Africa were a good thing, and praised the U.S. and other for doing so. Now, I am not so sure whether foreign aid is such a good idea for Africa. It is my opinion that the World Bank and IMF are just another form of slavery. Africa is a Country which is rich - in enough resources that, there is no need for Africa to go around BEGGING LIKE A DOG. That is ridiculous.
All Foreign Aid to Africa should be cut-off; to force the Africa Union, Africa’s Leaders and the African people to do what they must do to form a united Government. Any type of foreign Aid should be for the purpose of supporting an United States of Africa. Africa has what it takes to be a great nation, they just need to QUIT BEGGING - roll up their sleeves, and go to work and do what is best for Africa. Put Africa and its people.
U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson‘s “Great Society Program - War On Poverty Program” were funded through the U.S. Treasury - Budget. Africa should have a “War On Poverty” program declaring that ALL resources including land and especially oil and gas and all form of energy and wild life are properties of the people of Africa. The Nation Government (National Treasury of the United States of Africa) shall collect royalties from any and all business ventures involving Africa Resources as well as energy. The National Resource Department shall be the stewardship of such resources and will have the responsibility of collecting all royalties from those ventures.
Political Stability
Africa should have a Multi Africa Military Force which may be part of AFRICON - with the capability of putting down ANY conflicts on Africa soil. The first question that probably will arise is - whether the Force will have to deal with Dictators? The answer to this question is simple. There will be no Dictators. …. What? There will be no Dictators. There will be no such thing.
There will be no such thing as a coup. If a coup is attempted or occur - the leader engaging the coup (the leader who plan to take office as a result of the coup) will be put to death by a court of law.
The question of China and Democracy will be question. As the elected (recognized Governor of that Africa State - that Governor - will have the right to do business with any Countries that will allow the accomplishment of the overall economic goals of his State, the Region and the Nation to prosper.
The task of the Multi Africa Military Force ALSO will consist of protecting ALL the African’s States REGARDLESS of the Economic and Political views of its Governors.
I will put myself in the shoes of my African Brothers and Sisters by question the intentions of such a power force as AFRICON - on Africa’s soil. I will let the this document entitled, “An Africa Mandate 2008” answer that question.
As An United States of Africa the newly formed government must take a harsh role against Rebels, War Lords and other form of disorders. The minute a group of disappointed citizens as well as War Lords take up arms against their government their actions are no longer considered political. Their actions immediately is classified as TREASON and or TERROIST and is punished by death in a court of law. This is a must and must be understood by everyone. It will take something no less that this for Africa to get on the right road to recombining the Country it should be.
Proposed United States of Africa
Plan A:
Africans Leaders and the Africa Union must unite as one nation and declare themselves a United States of Africa; in so do doing, DECLARE - that - ANY form of Dictator’s rule is considered a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY therefore, is NOT ALLOWED ON AFRICA SOIL, and is enforced by the Multi-African Military Force which may also include AFRICON.
The United States of Africa should include ALL of the existing African Countries. NONE of the African’s Countries are to be exempted. By virtue of the fact that an Africa Country is on Africa soil Automatically makes it an United State of Africa.
The United States of Africa SHOULD NOT BE A COPY CAT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU). No qualifying criteria are required.
Plan A will also include all of Plan B.
Plan B
Plan B is to be use only if Plan A completely fail. It is my understanding that most leaders and supporters who supported a united government had began to considered the Accra, Ghana Summit as the last chance; but for some reasons the hope did not die in Ghana. And it appears that the decision to defer the discussion to establish a Union Government until their next summit in January 2009 was acceptable. Whether the support for the idea has lost any steam or not remains to be seen. .
Collation Of Forces:
If the Africans Leaders and the Africa Union - fail to unite as one nation and declare themselves An United States of Africa; then a Collation of Africa Nations, International Organizations, Civic Groups, and Individuals; that approve such an idea should proceed to take the steps to implement its creation before the United Nations Security Councils - headed by Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Senegal’s President Abdoulayne Wade.
First:
The Mandate is To DECLARE - that - ANY form of Dictator’s rule is considered a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY therefore, is NOT ALLOWED ON AFRICA SOIL, and is enforced by the Multi African Military Force which may also include AFRICON.
Next:
AS A RESULTS OF THE MANDATE, IT THEN DECLARES - ALL OF THE AFRICAN’S NATIONS AS ONE NATION - AN UNITED STATES OF AFRICA.
Declaration Of Unity
53 Countries - 53 United States:
The Mandate shall DECLARE that The United States of Africa shall include ALL of the existing African Countries. NONE of the African’s Countries are to be exempted. By virtue of the fact that the Arica Country is on Africa soil automatically makes it an United States of Africa.
The United States Of Africa Committee consisting of African’s Nations petition the United Nations Security Councils to Declared - That All Form Of Dictator’s Rule On African Soil Are Declared A Crime Against Humanity, And Is Not Allowed As A Form Of Government On African’s Soil. We Hereby Declare That All 53 African’s Nations From This Day Forward Be Known As The United States Of Africa in the name of the African people.
I hope that this can be the beginning of a Constitution Government for the Continent of Africa.
United States Of Africa Committee:
Establish a Committee - Known as: The United States of Africa Committee. Suggested Head of the Committee: (1) Former Secretary of the United Nation - Kofi A. Annan (Ghana) (2) Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. (3) Senegal’s President Abdoulayne Wade. .
Committee Members:
In addition to the Heads of the Committee: Members of the
Committee: (1) All of the Democratic African’s Nations
(2) Any other African’s Nations (3) International Organizations
(4) The African Union Association if they so Desire.(5) ANY Committee representing the People of ANY African Countries.
Host Country: Ethiopia
Capital: Gabon.
Governors:
Since many of the African’s Leaders are not going to be willing to give up their Rule or power; have them appointed as Governors of the Africa Country they present preside over for a ten year period.
I believe that the majorities of the Dictators did what they had to do; to become a free and independent Nation from Colonial rule and the Apartheid. They did what they had to do; and I do not condemn them. Africa is a large Country with many political and economic views. As time passed, many of them may have lost sight of a well planed objective and purpose. And, I feel that the only way Africa will progress is to become a United States of Africa. I feel that that time has come. It is my belief; that it is now time to move on, to a better Africa.
Many political and economic ideologies have had there changes and now it is time for Africa to become one Nation - A United States of Africa. It is my assumptions, that the leaders of the 53
African Countries; as members of the Africa Union truly believe in doing what is best for Africa and will support an United States of Africa. I really hate to think different. If their hope - their dream of Independent meant anything to them - then, complete that dream by uniting as one nation declaring Africa an United Government.
Election:
After the ten year period is over, there shall be an election in every African’s State - which will now be United States of Africa. The African’s people will elect ALL branches of their Representative Government. In this manner; the present Rulers will have had ten years, to prove they are worthy of being a representative Governor of the People of Africa. If they truly believe in Africa, and wish to do what is best for Africa they will accept such terms. Once the ten years are up - they can then run for re-election.
President/Vice President:
Have Libyan leader Col. Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi appointed as the first president of the United Stats of Africa and Kopi Anna former United Nations Counsel General of Ghana appointed as Vice President.
United States of Africa Senate and Representative:
By being a United States of Africa; this will open the doors for many African’s Leaders, political science graduates as well as many Africans citizens to become U.S. Senators and U. S. Representative; as well as State Senators and State Representatives.. They will first - (and this is very important) accept All the challengers that most of the Heads of States at the July 2007 AU Conference in in Accra, Ghana claim they need to solve before coming a Union Government. It will be the duties as the U.S. Senate and U.S. Representatives and each State Senate and each State Representative to take on each of those tasks as a Representative of that Africa‘s State.
For Example:
“….Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki, a member of the gradualist camp, expressed strong support for unity yesterday. "The advantages of Africa's unification are enormous for our people. A unified Africa will have stronger bargaining power," he said.
But reflecting the views of many of the leaders, Kibaki added that at a recent conference on the issue in Kenya, "opinions were varied on the pace this process should take". Kibaki said Africa's eight regional economic communities should be the building blocs of a united continent and their integration must be accelerated….”
This is the purpose of becoming An United States of Africa. Under these conditions why wait. There is no need to wait.
Legislative Branch:
Have the members of the Africa Union (AU) appointed as the Legislative Branch of government. National Government. Except for those who will become Governors.
Judicial Branch
Have the Judicial Branch of Government created from Representatives of various African Nations. National Government.
Speaker of the House:
The President of Liberia, Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Military Force:
Create a Multi Africa Military Force as outlined in the section Conclusion/Political Stability. The military is to consist of at lease a 750,000 men. The military is to be well paid to dis-encourage corruption.
Forget The European Union (EU):
The United States of Africa IS NOT to be a copy-cat of the European Union (EU) Africa is to set its own standards. The idea is inclusion. The United States of Africa is to INCLUDE ALL the Africa Countries and EXCLUDE NONE. This is not to be an option; By-venture-of-the-fact-that an Africa Nation exist on Africa soil; AUTIMATICALL MAKES THAT AFRICA’S COUNTRIES An United State of Africa.. Europe consist of a number of European Countries; whereas, Africa is one Nation and there should be no need for a criteria to join. The idea is for ALL African Countries to be one United Nation - An United States of Africa.
The United Nations Role:
The United Nations should be used as a last resort to solving African’s problems.
The United States of Africa Committee will be responsible for implement the program under plan B. .
Summary
Every time the International Community try to put on a show - to show - the world - that, humanity and care do exist for the African’s Nations, they put on a show and sponsor a few aid’s programs, commit a few million dollars toward Aids and a few of the local diseases that still exist among African’s Nations. Two or three months latter the Aids epidemic gets even worse and the few little millions dollars in foreign aids is gone and never gotten to the people it suppose to have help. IT DEFINATE DIND NOT HELP BUILD THE INFRUSTRUCTURE OF AFRICA.
thanks
12th African Union Summit
The 12th African Union Summitis scheduled to be held
The 26 of January 2009 til the 3 February 2009
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Theme of the Summit is "Infrastructure Development in Africa"
As time approaches for the showdown; as whether the Africa Union and the African’s Leaders will decide to move on to a NEW Arica and declare Africa as one Nation - An United States of Africa; OR REMAIN in a stalemate; as old rivals of bloods shedding , disease, corrupt governments, and remain as DOGs - BEGGING - FOR THEIR EXISTANCE. What will it be Africa? What will it be?
The 26 of January 2009 til the 3 February 2009
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Theme of the Summit is "Infrastructure Development in Africa"
As time approaches for the showdown; as whether the Africa Union and the African’s Leaders will decide to move on to a NEW Arica and declare Africa as one Nation - An United States of Africa; OR REMAIN in a stalemate; as old rivals of bloods shedding , disease, corrupt governments, and remain as DOGs - BEGGING - FOR THEIR EXISTANCE. What will it be Africa? What will it be?
Arabs Africans - Blacks Africans
Mission of Libya to the United Nations
Attention: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
309 East 48th Street
New York, New York 10017 U.S.A.
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
You may have notice my support of the idea of creating an United States of Africa - in my document entitled “An African Mandate 2008 - Forging A Nation” and other documents; I support you (Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi) as the first President of An United States of Africa. You may not have gotten some of my documents because I had Lybia confused with Liberia .
I have read plenty of material on Africa since the AU Summit - Accra, Ghana 2007. One of the document I read was entitled “Why We Oppose Gaddafi, By Yar’ Adua. The document consisted of a seria of blobs. I expected more from Nigeria President Yar’ Adua than beating around the bush. He talked about the mistakes the EU made during its development period. Yar’ Adua needs to forget the EU. We are talking about Africa. Africa has to do what is best for Africa. Yar’ Adua criticisms of Quaddafi and the Africa Union centered around the fact that every thing that is wrong with Africa should be solved before even considering uniting, and this is ridiculer and stupid.
I would like to get Yar’ Adua comments on “….Is there anything against African Countries setting their own standards. Must we aspire to be like the US or the EU? Cannot we aspire to be something else but better than other countries?”
I read another article which I forgot the title, but the issue that remain with me from that article; which was a very lengthy article and covered many topics, is that - Col Gaddafi has Arabs ties and have on occasions invited Arabs from other parts of the World to come and reside in Africa. Making Africa their homeland.
That article which was entitled “Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of AU read as follows:
Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of AU
By ChinweizuPosted to the Web: Friday, September 01, 2006
Part I: The Arab Quest for Lebensraum in Africa"
“The third of the Arab community living outside Africa should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the African Union "which is the only space we have' - Col. Mouarnmar Gadhafi of Libya, at the Arab League, 2001Many AfriKans take great exception to the sentiments and views expressed by Col. Gadhafi at the March 2001, Amman, Jordan meeting of the Arab League. --Prof. Kwesi Kwa Prah, 2004, in a paper to the AU [both quotes in Bankie and Mchombu eds, 2006:217, 235]Besides joining Prof. Prah and the other Afrikans who take exception to Gadhafi's statement, I should like to point out that Gadhafi's invitation to his fellow Arabs is nothing but a declaration of race war on Africa..."
On another occasion I logged on to the United States of Africa blob - web site, and read quite a few of the remarks in response to the question - “Is African unity a dream worth pursuing“?
I notice a great deal of concern for the political views of Africans in the north as opposed to those in other parts of Africa.
On that web site, Philip A Boldit in Texas, USA writes
“A United Sates of Africa is a dream that is attainable. I think that eastern (western) Africa, together with South Africa will be the first to achieve this dream. But what Africa needs now is the assurance from the big powers, like UK, France, USA and China that a united Africa is not a threat to their interests. African Arab countries of Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, and Mauritania will have a difficult choice: They will either look more to the Middle East or accept the political reality of being Africans ahead of anything else”
As a results of the article entitled “Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of AU and the comments on the United States of Africa web site, I was encourage to write the following reply which the African Union Association was provided a copy.
As you will note in my proposal, entitled “An African Mandate 2008 - Forging A Nation”, I suggested that Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi be appointed the first president of Africa.
As Christians, which include a large number of blacks in Africa; it is my belief that their religion can withstand the challenger of opening the highest role of government to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi I can not think of any other way of uniting all African within a short period of time than by giving Col. Qaddafi a chance to unite Arabs and all other Africans as one. This will at lease give Arabs a chance to start thinking of themselves as Africans.
I think it is more important to give Col Qaddafi the first chance to unite Arabs as African than for - lets say - for Nigeria President or Kofi Annan to prove their concern for Arabs. As President - I do not think - being President will in no shape or form be a problem for Nigeria President nor Kofi Annan to embrace Arabs as Africans. It appears that the problem will be for Arabs to embrace Africans as their brother and sisters. As President of an United States of Africa this will be Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi job.
Africans have survive wars, Colonialism, the Apartheids and all kinds of endurance, so I believe that they can survive one more test of their faith by offering an olive branch to the Arabs - Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi
Anything else will probably require years and years of trial and errors.
It is my understanding that there are many Tribes of Africans on the Continent. I do not think uniting the Tribes will be as big of a problem as the Arabs; as long as the government does not force changes upon the Tribes. Due justice to the various Tribes, in my opinion, will be to guarantee the Constitutional - recognition of equal representation in the government. One man - One vote. And this is all the Arabs should demand as Africans. Being a United States of Africa will not require everyone be black Africans, act as black Africans nor even think as black Africans; nor should it require everyone to think and act as Arabs.
With that said I will like to know what you (Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi done to promote unity and co-operation among Africa Arabs, and Native Africans? What have you done to try and promote stability in Sudan and Dufur? It is my understanding that quite a bit of the instability are the results of conflicts among native Africans and Arabs the mere lack of respect for each others.
It is my understanding that you (Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi) has done quite a bit to promote the idea of establishing a United States of Africa and it is my understanding that you have had some very good ideas for Africa. If you do not have any intention of creating an Africa for All African then what else could be your intentions?
Please make sure Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. gets a copy of this letter. I hope to get a person reply from him. Also, please not the enclosed letter written to Chairperson Ping - The Africa Union Association. The letter is for Col. Quaddafi information.
Thank you,
Ernest L. Herron
cc:
The Africa Union Association
Senegal’s President Abdoulayne Wade. .
Republic of Liberia, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Her Excellency Faida Mitifu
The Republic of South Africa
Republic of Sierra Leone
Faxed to about ten Embassies
Attention: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
309 East 48th Street
New York, New York 10017 U.S.A.
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
You may have notice my support of the idea of creating an United States of Africa - in my document entitled “An African Mandate 2008 - Forging A Nation” and other documents; I support you (Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi) as the first President of An United States of Africa. You may not have gotten some of my documents because I had Lybia confused with Liberia .
I have read plenty of material on Africa since the AU Summit - Accra, Ghana 2007. One of the document I read was entitled “Why We Oppose Gaddafi, By Yar’ Adua. The document consisted of a seria of blobs. I expected more from Nigeria President Yar’ Adua than beating around the bush. He talked about the mistakes the EU made during its development period. Yar’ Adua needs to forget the EU. We are talking about Africa. Africa has to do what is best for Africa. Yar’ Adua criticisms of Quaddafi and the Africa Union centered around the fact that every thing that is wrong with Africa should be solved before even considering uniting, and this is ridiculer and stupid.
I would like to get Yar’ Adua comments on “….Is there anything against African Countries setting their own standards. Must we aspire to be like the US or the EU? Cannot we aspire to be something else but better than other countries?”
I read another article which I forgot the title, but the issue that remain with me from that article; which was a very lengthy article and covered many topics, is that - Col Gaddafi has Arabs ties and have on occasions invited Arabs from other parts of the World to come and reside in Africa. Making Africa their homeland.
That article which was entitled “Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of AU read as follows:
Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of AU
By ChinweizuPosted to the Web: Friday, September 01, 2006
Part I: The Arab Quest for Lebensraum in Africa"
“The third of the Arab community living outside Africa should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the African Union "which is the only space we have' - Col. Mouarnmar Gadhafi of Libya, at the Arab League, 2001Many AfriKans take great exception to the sentiments and views expressed by Col. Gadhafi at the March 2001, Amman, Jordan meeting of the Arab League. --Prof. Kwesi Kwa Prah, 2004, in a paper to the AU [both quotes in Bankie and Mchombu eds, 2006:217, 235]Besides joining Prof. Prah and the other Afrikans who take exception to Gadhafi's statement, I should like to point out that Gadhafi's invitation to his fellow Arabs is nothing but a declaration of race war on Africa..."
On another occasion I logged on to the United States of Africa blob - web site, and read quite a few of the remarks in response to the question - “Is African unity a dream worth pursuing“?
I notice a great deal of concern for the political views of Africans in the north as opposed to those in other parts of Africa.
On that web site, Philip A Boldit in Texas, USA writes
“A United Sates of Africa is a dream that is attainable. I think that eastern (western) Africa, together with South Africa will be the first to achieve this dream. But what Africa needs now is the assurance from the big powers, like UK, France, USA and China that a united Africa is not a threat to their interests. African Arab countries of Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, and Mauritania will have a difficult choice: They will either look more to the Middle East or accept the political reality of being Africans ahead of anything else”
As a results of the article entitled “Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of AU and the comments on the United States of Africa web site, I was encourage to write the following reply which the African Union Association was provided a copy.
As you will note in my proposal, entitled “An African Mandate 2008 - Forging A Nation”, I suggested that Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi be appointed the first president of Africa.
As Christians, which include a large number of blacks in Africa; it is my belief that their religion can withstand the challenger of opening the highest role of government to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi I can not think of any other way of uniting all African within a short period of time than by giving Col. Qaddafi a chance to unite Arabs and all other Africans as one. This will at lease give Arabs a chance to start thinking of themselves as Africans.
I think it is more important to give Col Qaddafi the first chance to unite Arabs as African than for - lets say - for Nigeria President or Kofi Annan to prove their concern for Arabs. As President - I do not think - being President will in no shape or form be a problem for Nigeria President nor Kofi Annan to embrace Arabs as Africans. It appears that the problem will be for Arabs to embrace Africans as their brother and sisters. As President of an United States of Africa this will be Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi job.
Africans have survive wars, Colonialism, the Apartheids and all kinds of endurance, so I believe that they can survive one more test of their faith by offering an olive branch to the Arabs - Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi
Anything else will probably require years and years of trial and errors.
It is my understanding that there are many Tribes of Africans on the Continent. I do not think uniting the Tribes will be as big of a problem as the Arabs; as long as the government does not force changes upon the Tribes. Due justice to the various Tribes, in my opinion, will be to guarantee the Constitutional - recognition of equal representation in the government. One man - One vote. And this is all the Arabs should demand as Africans. Being a United States of Africa will not require everyone be black Africans, act as black Africans nor even think as black Africans; nor should it require everyone to think and act as Arabs.
With that said I will like to know what you (Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi done to promote unity and co-operation among Africa Arabs, and Native Africans? What have you done to try and promote stability in Sudan and Dufur? It is my understanding that quite a bit of the instability are the results of conflicts among native Africans and Arabs the mere lack of respect for each others.
It is my understanding that you (Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi) has done quite a bit to promote the idea of establishing a United States of Africa and it is my understanding that you have had some very good ideas for Africa. If you do not have any intention of creating an Africa for All African then what else could be your intentions?
Please make sure Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. gets a copy of this letter. I hope to get a person reply from him. Also, please not the enclosed letter written to Chairperson Ping - The Africa Union Association. The letter is for Col. Quaddafi information.
Thank you,
Ernest L. Herron
cc:
The Africa Union Association
Senegal’s President Abdoulayne Wade. .
Republic of Liberia, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Her Excellency Faida Mitifu
The Republic of South Africa
Republic of Sierra Leone
Faxed to about ten Embassies
Africa
To:
Office of the Special Advisor On Africa - United Nations
Ms. Katrin Toomel Email: toomel@un.org
Message:
While surfing the World Wide Web, I ran upon some information concerning the United Nation Millennium Development Goals. I must confess that I did not have time to read and understand all the material I came upon, but I could not resist from making my comments noted.
A portion of one of the article read as follows:
At their 2005 Gleneagles summit, the Group
of 8 industrialized nations predicted that their
commitments, along with those of other donors, would
double official development assistance to Africa by
2010. Excluding the substantial debt relief to the region,
notably for Nigeria, preliminary data show that bilateral
official development assistance to Africa rose by 9
per cent in real terms in 2007. Despite this increase,
an even more rapid rise in aid to Africa is necessary to
reach the Gleneagles projection for 2010.
Who Kidding Whom? I do not need a PhD in Economics to know that the Group of 8 industrialized nations or anyone else commitment to donating such a great deal of money to undeveloped Countries will be attainable by 2015; with the rise of inflation and all kinds of economic crisis. This is why I have my doubts about the International Community and the United Nations Policies toward Africa. Why don’t the United Nations take a stand that will make Africa independent of having to beg for Foreign Aid like a dog. Then again, trying to go their own separate ways (as indenpendent Countries) they can not do anyhing but beg like a dog.
It is my understanding that one of the Millennium Development Goals - is to End Poverty by 2015 and another is to Develop a Global Partnership For Development. After reading the information on the Millennium Development Goals, I am more convince of the recommendation I mention in a previous e-mail to you dated a few moths ago.
As a solution to Africa’s problems; I can not understand why the United Nations have not DEMANDED that one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals does not require that Africa be declared as a united government - an United States of Africa. THIS IS THE REAL SOLUTION TO AFRICA PROBLEMS. The mere fact that Africa become an United States of Africa will give Africans pride, and more enthusiasm - to do more - and achieve more. It will give them the insensitive to achieve. Is this - what everyone is afraid of? Even African Leaders - themselves seem to be afraid of succeeding.
I hate to say this, but it seems that the United Nations have more estate in Africa not become a stabilized Country as those who oppose Africa success. Everybody knows that AFRICA CAN NOT SUCEED AS INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES. Why can’t they see this. Foreign Aid does not do anything but corrupt. Even I can see this. It appears that it is more to Africans advantage to take Foreign aid money under the table than to build the infrastructure of their Nation. I guest that is why everyone is so willing to give Foreign aid to Africa. Foreign aid have not built anything. It has not in the past and it will not in the future. When Foreign aid start building the infrastructures of Africa that will probably the day Africa never receive any more.
And you know as well as I that Africa is capable of providing for itself (herself) . This can be achieved. It not nearly as difficulty as you or some else would like for me to believe. It is as simple as on - two- three. YES simple as - one - two - three. It can be accomplished at the upcoming African Union Summit 26 January 2009 - 3rd February 2009 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
First: Demand that the Africa Union, it Members, and Africans Leaders declared Africa a united Government - an United States of Africa and enforceable by Africon.
Put into effect and implement all of Africa’s Regional Development Plans; whether they a complete or not.
Implement a Monetary Policy
Implement anything else needed to complete the transition of Africa into an united government.
How much money doe the United Nation spend in Military hardware to support and implement military projects in Africa?
How much aid money the United Nations spend for Medicine, HIV/Aid treatment in Africa?
How much money does the United Nation spend to feed the poor in Africa?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to demand that Africa unite as an United States of Africa and pay for its programs with its own resources? Implement fair trade agreement across the board to assure that Africa gets a fair price for it goods. Wouldn’t this make more sense to let Africa pay it own way. As a United Government - it can. And you know it can.
“Something stinks in Demark” so the saying goes. Or, I smell a rat, or whatever. Things begin to smell like economic slavery or Colonialism.
As an United States of Africa - Africa can pay it own way. Why is this so hard to see? I could understand it if it was only the International Community and the United Nations; but the African Leaders are just as guilty.
Thank you,
Ernest Herron
Office of the Special Advisor On Africa - United Nations
Ms. Katrin Toomel Email: toomel@un.org
Message:
While surfing the World Wide Web, I ran upon some information concerning the United Nation Millennium Development Goals. I must confess that I did not have time to read and understand all the material I came upon, but I could not resist from making my comments noted.
A portion of one of the article read as follows:
At their 2005 Gleneagles summit, the Group
of 8 industrialized nations predicted that their
commitments, along with those of other donors, would
double official development assistance to Africa by
2010. Excluding the substantial debt relief to the region,
notably for Nigeria, preliminary data show that bilateral
official development assistance to Africa rose by 9
per cent in real terms in 2007. Despite this increase,
an even more rapid rise in aid to Africa is necessary to
reach the Gleneagles projection for 2010.
Who Kidding Whom? I do not need a PhD in Economics to know that the Group of 8 industrialized nations or anyone else commitment to donating such a great deal of money to undeveloped Countries will be attainable by 2015; with the rise of inflation and all kinds of economic crisis. This is why I have my doubts about the International Community and the United Nations Policies toward Africa. Why don’t the United Nations take a stand that will make Africa independent of having to beg for Foreign Aid like a dog. Then again, trying to go their own separate ways (as indenpendent Countries) they can not do anyhing but beg like a dog.
It is my understanding that one of the Millennium Development Goals - is to End Poverty by 2015 and another is to Develop a Global Partnership For Development. After reading the information on the Millennium Development Goals, I am more convince of the recommendation I mention in a previous e-mail to you dated a few moths ago.
As a solution to Africa’s problems; I can not understand why the United Nations have not DEMANDED that one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals does not require that Africa be declared as a united government - an United States of Africa. THIS IS THE REAL SOLUTION TO AFRICA PROBLEMS. The mere fact that Africa become an United States of Africa will give Africans pride, and more enthusiasm - to do more - and achieve more. It will give them the insensitive to achieve. Is this - what everyone is afraid of? Even African Leaders - themselves seem to be afraid of succeeding.
I hate to say this, but it seems that the United Nations have more estate in Africa not become a stabilized Country as those who oppose Africa success. Everybody knows that AFRICA CAN NOT SUCEED AS INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES. Why can’t they see this. Foreign Aid does not do anything but corrupt. Even I can see this. It appears that it is more to Africans advantage to take Foreign aid money under the table than to build the infrastructure of their Nation. I guest that is why everyone is so willing to give Foreign aid to Africa. Foreign aid have not built anything. It has not in the past and it will not in the future. When Foreign aid start building the infrastructures of Africa that will probably the day Africa never receive any more.
And you know as well as I that Africa is capable of providing for itself (herself) . This can be achieved. It not nearly as difficulty as you or some else would like for me to believe. It is as simple as on - two- three. YES simple as - one - two - three. It can be accomplished at the upcoming African Union Summit 26 January 2009 - 3rd February 2009 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
First: Demand that the Africa Union, it Members, and Africans Leaders declared Africa a united Government - an United States of Africa and enforceable by Africon.
Put into effect and implement all of Africa’s Regional Development Plans; whether they a complete or not.
Implement a Monetary Policy
Implement anything else needed to complete the transition of Africa into an united government.
How much money doe the United Nation spend in Military hardware to support and implement military projects in Africa?
How much aid money the United Nations spend for Medicine, HIV/Aid treatment in Africa?
How much money does the United Nation spend to feed the poor in Africa?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to demand that Africa unite as an United States of Africa and pay for its programs with its own resources? Implement fair trade agreement across the board to assure that Africa gets a fair price for it goods. Wouldn’t this make more sense to let Africa pay it own way. As a United Government - it can. And you know it can.
“Something stinks in Demark” so the saying goes. Or, I smell a rat, or whatever. Things begin to smell like economic slavery or Colonialism.
As an United States of Africa - Africa can pay it own way. Why is this so hard to see? I could understand it if it was only the International Community and the United Nations; but the African Leaders are just as guilty.
Thank you,
Ernest Herron
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