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Africa Unity & Unification @ 50 - Fiercest Sense of Urgency to Unify for
New Momentum to Rapid Total Liberation of the African Continent for
Holistic Justice, Collective Peace, Stability, Security, Prosperity,Wellbeing & Fundamental Human Rights
Date: 25th
May, 2013/
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Joint Media Release
The GREAT Partnership incorporating
The Great Trust Group, The Council For Afrika InternationalGroup, The Afrika Liberation Group and The GREAT
Consortium
AFRICA UNITY and UNIFICATION@ 50
Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left?
The answer isFive, because deciding is different from doing.
Transform into a Fit-For-Purpose, Viable, Competent, Patriotic
Africanist Revolutionary Continental Agency for African Unity or
Disband for Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Emperor
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Haile Selassie and the Pioneers of African Unification cannot be
Mocked in the long term! Koku Adomdza
On the defining and decisive occasion of the 50th Anniversary of post-
Colonial organizing the Unification of Africa for African Unity, we call on the
54 Heads of State of Africa to transform the African Union into an anti-
NeoColonialist, anti-Imperialist, Patriotic Africanist Revolutionary
Continental Agency competent to rapidly deliver African Unity or disband.
The business of African Unity is not a conference, talking, seminar or
luncheon party with tracks of carbon footprints with negligible outcomes
when the African Continent remains vulnerable and dependent on foreign
largesse and most importantly the Fundamental Human Rights of Majority
African Citizens asphyxiate. For 50 years, after the initial positive sparks,the African Unity institution has failed to attain African Unity, it has
accepted second-class category status within the United Nations by failing to
defeat UN Institutional anti-African Racism and Marginalisation, failed to
protect the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of the African Continent and
failed to create a viable African Continental Economy Giant required to
power a Formidable, Credible African Unity and Unification of Africans in
Africa and the Diaspora with a Powerful Voice for Africas 1.3bn Citizens.
After 50 years, 93% of the African Union budget is foreign sponsored and itis not financially self-sustainable. What does that tell us when the African
Continent is so blessed with vast volumes of Natural Resources, Human
Resource Capital but with incredible sky-rocketing illicit financial capital
flight to foreign destinations? What manner of leadership do Africa and the
African Union institution have?
A critical Question is if the Africa Union institution disbanded today or at
any time soon, what difference would it make to the necessary project of
African Unity, Unification and the ultimate Vision of the Total Liberation of
the African Continent? The international, vicious and ruthless character of
the anti-African Forces for Evil necessitates a Formidable, Patriotic,
Africanist, Revolutionary Continental African Union to dislodge and that is
how critical African Unity is. It is myopic, suicidal and reckless for any
Contemporary African Leader to hold the illusionary view that it can attain
full independence on its own with the architecture of the NeoColonial State,
because the latter is designed to keep Africa dependent. The earlier the wool
is removed from the eyes of Africas Contemporary Leadership the better for
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them, the Majority African Peoples to whom Africa belongs and the African
Unification Vision, Mission, Purpose and Objectives.
Conscious of and considering the African Continents unquestionable
pedigree as the Origin of Humankind and the Cradle of Human Civilisation,
the Largest Continent on Planet Earth, the most Natural Resource Endowed,
a significant talent pool of resilient Human Capital Resource, the untapped
Goodwill of Persons of African Ancestry in the Diaspora, the failure of
Africas post-Colonial Self-ruling Generation to attain African Unity is no
longer tolerable and the 50th Anniversary offers the clarion moment for key
decisions to be taken to rectify. Let us be clear that regardless of whether
Contemporary African leaders including the new leadership at the African
Union institution avail themselves of the occasion to inject a NewRevolutionary Momentum for African Unification, one thing is certain
African Unity and Unification is not going back but forwards. If it means
pulling down the NeoColonialist African Union and start afresh, so be it. The
vacuum by the non-existence of Competent Patriotic Africanist
Revolutionary Leadership cannot be left vacant any longer and the African
Union as it stands on the 50th Anniversary risks rendering itself irrelevant,
as well as exposes the African Unification Project and the Collective
Wellbeing of Majority Africans to significant risk. This situation is untenable.
On this unique watershed moment of the 50th Anniversary of post-Colonial
African Unification, we remind of the Fierce Urgency of Time and the
hazards of playing catch up instead of being proactive. African Disunity,
Cartel Slavery, Imperialism, Colonialism and NeoColonialism are
instruments of the long-standing Conspiracy Against the African Continent
and her Peoples which together KILL, DESTROY Africans and their
Conscientious Selfless Patriotic Leaders as well as STEAL from Africans and
the Commonwealth of the African Continent through plethora of con
strategies, tricks, policies of entrenched economic underdevelopment to
contain Africa as a huge market for industrialized, technology, science,
medical, pharmaceutical, engineering, arms, military and defense products.
African Disunity and Economic Underdevelopment have become the most
obscene but profitable businesses of all time upon which the Forces of Evil
feed upon and from. Through missed opportunities, moral decadence, lack
of Patriotic Africanism and other stances of cowardice, the Fundamental
Human Rights of Majority Africans are traded for the servitude, turpitude
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and mass misery of Dependency through Foreign Finance Capital
dominationthe new instrument of African Enslavement. These are
undisputed Forces for Evil which must be Collectively resisted, exposed,
countered, eradicated at the behest of a Patriotic, Loyal, anti-Imperialist
African Union Leadership, fit-for-purpose Commission and Secretariat,
Regional Institutions and the 54 Heads of State in Africa, supported by their
battalions of Diplomats across in and outside of the African Continent with
Deliberate Haste, Candour, Courage and Wisdom to stand up to these
demonic phenomena. When your house is on fire, you do not talk, you act.
The African Unification Project has been on fire for 50 years, time for
Resolute Anti-NeoColonialist Action has come to tear down the entire edifice
of African Disunity for Substantial, Formidable, Sustainable African Unity,
of Africans, by Africans, for Africans.
On this 50th Anniversary, the GREAT Trust, Council for Afrika International
and the Afrika Liberation Society deems it most appropriate to express
solidarity with all Africans and Persons of African Ancestry on the African
Continent and the Diaspora who in various ways positively contribute to
African Unity and African Unification in the light that the African Union has
no monopoly over African Unity, African Unification, Unification of Africans
and Persons of African Ancestry and the Total Liberation of the AfricanContinent. As a matter of fact, it is significant to acknowledge that African
Unity and African Unification encapsulating Unification of Africans and
Persons of African Ancestry happens better outside of the African Union as
it is at present and unless the AU revolutionizes, it risks making itself
irrelevant in the quest for African Unity, African Unification, Unification of
Africans and Persons of African Ancestry within the African Continent and
the Diaspora.
In this defining watershed moment, the GREAT Trust, Council for Afrika
International and the Afrika Liberation Society considers it pertinent to duly
acknowledge the selfless sacrifices to the known, prominent and millions of
unknown martyrs of African Unity, African Unification and Unification of
Africans and All Persons of African Ancestry the world over, and by
definition the Total African Liberation Process. On this Golden Jubilee
Anniversary of the post-colonial institutional building of the African Union
organization, we consider it expedient and proper to remember the sacrifices
that the martyrs made to African Unity, Unification of Africans and the Total
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Liberation of the African Continent, keenly aware that these processes began
long before the Organization of African Unity was formed e.g. Marcus Josiah
Garveys United Negro Improvement Association and African Communities
League [UNIA-ACL] August 1914. In the light that concepts and variations of
African Unity, an African Union institution, the Unification of Africa and
Persons of African Ancestry as well as the Total Liberation of the African
Continent preceded the formation of the OAU/AU during the period of the
Foreign Cartel Slavery in Africans and in comparatively more hostile era of
Colonialism with clear results, the post-Colonial stagnation towards African
Unity is pretty much dismal and requires a new momentum.
50 years i.e. half a century is a decisive defining moment for any enterprise,
not the least African Unity, African Unification that are embodied in theOAU/AU and integral to the wider vision of the Total Liberation of the
African Continent and her long-suffering and multiply, overly poverty-
terrorized peoples. A new dynamic [knowingly or unknowingly] was injected
into African Unification when the decision was made to situate a symbolic
statue of the late Ghanaian President Dr Kwame Nkrumah at the forecourts
of the modern China-funded modern HQ of the African Union in Addis
Ababa in 2012. The poignant essence from that moment is a race against
time to rapidly reconcile the neo-colonial African Union with the vision,mission, purpose, strategic and programmatic objectives of Dr Kwame
Nkrumah, Emperor Haile Selassie and other Patriotic Africanists which
should have long been attained within 5 decades of aloofness.
It is now the challenge of All of Africas Self-ruling elites and bureaucrats of
NeoColonial Africa to grasp the critical nature of this watershed moment
especially on Dr Nkrumahs clear positions on the rapid eradication and
demise of NeoColonialism and Imperialism out every facet, strand and
mentality of the African Continent. Make no mistake that Dr Nkrumahs
statue cannot subsist with an Unpatriotic, Reactionary, Dependent, Neo-
Colonialist African Union institution. It is outrageous that after 50 years of
post-Colonial African Self-rule, at least 93% of the AUs budget is funded
through foreign financial sources. As is said, he who pays the piper, calls
the tune. The good news is that fortunately, Dr Nkrumah handed Africans
and All Persons of African Ancestry a ready-made resolution through his
authoritative, seminal works, publications and books on African Unity,
NeoColonialism, Imperialism, Revolutionary Path etc and so there is no
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point looking for any other paradigms from the Global North or other.
Africas leaders have done enough talking to the degree that Majority
Africans in Africa and the Diaspora have become sick and tired of empty
talking shops; and tired of being sick of frivolous, wasteful, empty
conferences, seminars, workshops, high-profile confabs that achieve
practically nothing. This 50th Anniversary is the time to stop talking African
Unity and DO African Unity!!!
While Dr Nkrumahs seminal writings on African Unity and Total
DeColonisation of the African Continent provide some strategic and tactical
ethical ammunition, the primary foundation upon which a Formidable,
Sustainable, Unshakable African Union, African Unification and the
Unification of Africans and All Persons of African Ancestry should be basedis the premise of the Holy Spirit. As hinted above, we must be clear that
Imperialism in all its forms, from Cartel Slavery, Colonialism, Apartheid,
Institutional Racism against Africa and Africans i.e. Afrophobia to
NeoColonialism are all murderous agencies of demonic Forces for Evil that
have inflicted a relentless, bloody, horrendous holocaust against African and
her Peoples, including taking out the bravest of African Unionists and
Liberators. You only need to take a look at the horrific images of
malnourished children used by Global North NGOs in their fundraisingcampaigns to catch a glimpse of the enduring harsh inhuman consequences
of these international forces of evil. Most Africans live with these indignities
day in day out, week in week out, month after month, year after year,
generation after generation. The only potent foundation to dislodge African
Disunity, Imperialism, Colonialism and NeoColonialism is a very strong,
uncompromising Holy Spiritual Foundation, more-so when it is certain that
African Unity and African Unification in any credible forms are bound to be
attacked by the same Forces for Evil even after they have been achieved. It is
only a strong Holy Spirit Foundation that can withstand the demonic
attacks of the evil anti-Africa forces and interests. Thus far, African Union
has been based on the limited human intellect, efforts of a Disunited Nation-
state-centred post-Colonial Leadership which has proven demonstrably no
match for the Coalition of Forces for Evil against the African Continent and
her Peoples in Africa and the Diaspora.
Africans, Persons of African Ancestry and their Supporters for African Unity
to attain the Total Liberation of the African Continent must come to the
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understanding that Cartel Slavery, Imperialism, Colonialism, Apartheid and
NeoColonialism collectively constitute a lethal force that hit Africa like a
barrage of tornado-twisters and left in its trail imprints of a NeoColonial
Continental Nation-state infrastructure to entrench the long-term ravaging
disasters of abject impoverishment, economic enslavement, financial,
military and cultural terrorism that they unleashed upon the African
Peoples to feed into the anti-African Discrimination construct for
enforcement as the UN Security Council exclusion depicts. This is the
unwritten logic of the anti-African, afrophobic excluders. Only economically-
advanced Caucasians Peoples can become Veto-wielding, Voting, Permanent
Members of the UN Security Council. No economically-underdeveloped
Peoples or Continent can become a Veto-wielding, Voting, Permanent
Member of the UN Security Council. The African Continent is largely un-Caucasian, economically-underdeveloped and thus not fit to becoming
Veto-wielding, Voting, Permanent Members of the UN Security Council. So
shall it be, regardless of Africas 1.3 Billion Citizens and the African
Leadership including African Union institution puts up with it with little
talk.
We must be clear about the demeaning, hateful, anti-African purpose,
objective and essence of Cartel Slavery, Imperialism, Colonialism, Apartheidand NeoColonialism to stifle, undermine and sabotage the much talked-
about but little-done African Unity, African Unification and Unification of
Africans at home and Diaspora through continued dependency, economic
underdevelopment strategies, refusal to pay atone for Crimes of Humanity
committed against the African Peoples and blind-eye to the criminal and
average minimum US$1.55 Trillion annual illicit Financial Capital Flight out
the developing world, including Africa to the Global North since the advent
of Foreign Intervention in Africa, under the glare of security agencies. We
must also understand that NeoColonialism is a contemporary vicious
instrument by imperialists and anti-African Forces for Evil to keep Africa
and her peoples permanently economically underdeveloped, locked down in
perpetual mass misery. It must be echoed that anyone or group of peoples
who participates, connives and condones, actively or passively, with African
Disunity, anti-Africanism, Afrophobia, NeoColonialism, Imperialism,
Economic and Cultural Terrorism against the African Peoples, not the least
the African Holocaust has their hands smeared with the blood of all the
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victims of abject impoverishment on the African Continent and the African
Diaspora.
It is incredulous how any competent African Leader would lack the clarity
and therefore wrongly fail to grasp the crossfire of emergencies and crises
that Africa is enmeshed in, not the least the African Holocaust, the need to
declare a State of Emergency across the whole of the African Continent and
reset the buttons for Major African-centred Reconstruction Initiative, Crises
Management Interventions and Resource Mobilisation of sheer Human
Spirit, Financial Resources for unprecedented African Liberation Revolution
powered by African Unity instead of existing passive, emasculated, labile,
egg-shell, reformist responses that rather consolidate NeoColonialism,
Imperialism and mass suffering by Africans on the Continent. In the light ofthe imperialist purpose of NeoColonialism, it is imperceptible to expect it to
facilitate or support the delivery of African Unity. As the past 50 years
demonstrate and to all intents and purposes, NeoColonialist Nation States
are at odds with African Unity and so the former cannot deliver or achieve
African Unity, African Unification or the Unity of Africans. It is not designed
to.
Against the backdrop of the foregoing summarized chronicle of a disastrousand shoddy job at African Unity, the only palpable approach to deliver and
achieve formidable, credible, unshakable African Unity is the rapid
DeNeoColonisation of the African Union Institution, alongside the rapid
DeNeoColonisation of Africas 54 NeoColonialist Nation States, submerge all
the artificial imperialist boundaries under the visibly pronounced Single,
Continental, Coast-to-Coast, Boundaries of the African Continent through a
21st Century Patriotic African Continental Revolution. A profound analysis
of the Tragedy of the African Conundrum, from the historically valid,
relevant perspective of Pedigree Africa, complete with the most diversified,
richest natural resource endowment pool, resilient and talented human
resource reservoir, but the disaster of week, poor, insensitive and
incompetent leadership through post-Colonial African Self-rule with their
consequential continued misery for Africas Majority 1.3billion Citizens point
to no less than a Patriotic African Continental Revolution to restore
Sustainable Justice, Freedom, Fraternity, Equality, Collective Stability,
Security, Peace and the guarantee of Fundamental Human and Global
Citizenship Rights for Majority Africans.
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The GREAT Trust, Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation
Society proposes A Declaration of A Continental State of Emergency as an
acknowledgement of the fact of and repugnance towards the African
Holocaust that must remain in place until the extreme harsh economic
crises that Majority African Citizens face everyday are resolved. The hitherto
suicidal limited-impact reformist approach is the most dangerous and anti-
African, treasonable and betraying approach to take, because it is sleep-
walking Africa into total ReColonisation through the influx of Unethical
Finance Capital and the stripping of the legitimate Collective Ownership of
Majority Indigenous Africans of the rich Natural Resource Endowments of
the African Continent into the hands of foreigners hostile to the Collective
Wellbeing of Africa, Forces for Evil through unholy economic pacts ofcriminal characteristics and treasonable implications. The existing trend,
unless immediately arrested, would effectively mortgage the future of Africas
Youth to collective doom, drudgery, penury and irreversible mass misery
which is detestable even at the point of conception.
African Unity and African Unification require clear mental resolution, strong
moral existential imperative and African-centred Liberating Paradigm
Mindset of relevance which must be sufficiently and finely processed,appreciated and understood, firmly registered in the psyche, subconscious
and conscience of individual with pre-eminence within the Contemporary
Collective African Leadership that overcomes mental enslavement,
internalised inferiority complexes and the ethical armoury to confront and
defeat the corrupt and corruptible influences of NeoColonialism, Imperialism
and African Dependency. African Unity and African Unification are light
years away from trendy, cosmetic, lavish conferences, luxurious luncheons
and dinners to feed the already overfed NeoColonial African Self-ruling Elite
while Majority Africans go famished, starved and malnourished. The
intolerability and obscenity must be vociferously articulated as is wrong and
condoning of the continued, inexcusable rape and plunder of
NeoColonialism, as well as conniving with the un-abating misery of Africas
long-suffering Indigenous Majority, to whom the African Continent and all
its rich arsenal of natural resource endowments belong.
Dr Koku Adomdza, President & Senior Fellow of the GREAT Trust Group,
the Council for Afrika International group and the Afrika Liberation Group
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reflects that There can be hardly any doubt that the 50th Anniversary of the
post-Colonial African Unity Vision, Mission, Purpose and Objectives signals
an historic watershed and how this defining moment is grasped by
Contemporary African Leadership will have far-reaching implications for
African Unity itself and by projection the very much anticipated and hoped
for Total African Liberation Destination. Five decades of the quest for African
Unity and a backdrop of at least 14 centuries of the Wider African Holocaust
has been extremely blighting, plighting, excruciating and colossally costly in
human lives, time lost, missed opportunities, financial and economic loss to
name a few. The Pioneers and architects of African Unity and African
Unification from Marcus Garvey, Dr Kwame Nkrumah et al, in their wisdom
were apt to unpack and unmask the international character of predominant
anti-Africanism, African Disunity, Colonialism, NeoColonialism andImperialism and had a clear proposition of African Unity as a necessary
vehicle to sufficiently neuter and counter the Forces for Evil against the
African Continent, Africans in Africa and Diaspora Africans incorporating All
Persons of African Ancestry. The records of the past 50 years of un-
achievement contrasted with the tasks of African Unity amongst others,
indicate a half century breather of entrenched anti-Africanism within
African and globally. That is a seriously culminating adverse impact of too
much talking African Unity and doing little about it which must be rapidlyreversed in an uncompromising manner. African Unity is a vital lifeline,
instrument and conduit to the Total Liberation of the African Continent for
the Guarantee, Restoration and Protection of the Collective Wellbeing of
Majority Africans that incorporates Justice, Freedom, Equality, Dignity,
Prosperity, Ownership of Africas rich Natural Resources, Fundamental
Human and Global Citizenship Rights and we expect All peace-loving human
beings to respect this.
How African Unity, African Unification and the Unification of Africans
worldwide relates to the GREAT Trust Group, the Council for Afrika
International Group and the Afrika Liberation Group is situate in the
context given above. To begin with it is imperative to restate our generic
Race Equality and Fundamental Human Rights worldview in
acknowledgement that Fundamental Human Rights are sacred, inalienable,
guaranteed entitlements, central and integral to human existence and the
essence of being, which distinguish humans from other species of Creation.
We believe that Race Equality and Fundamental Human Rights are Divinely-
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given as precious, inviolable and must be respected by all human beings
without exception. We hold strong to the principle of the indivisibility and
holistic nature of Fundamental Human Rights and categorically reject any
selective application of convenience of Fundamental Human Rights as
primarily flawed and hypocritical. So for instance we are critical of
mainstream unethical, distorted and unbalanced tendencies that seek to
promote political rights while stifling economic rights, democracy with
economic and social repression or political DeColonisation with economic
dependencythese are extremist ideological recipes for having a pretence of
goodness yet unleashing severe assaults on other essential strands of
Fundamental Human Rights. Above all, we uphold that the guarantee and
protection of Race Equality and Fundamental Human Rights are cardinal
duties, functions, responsibilities and therefore part-justification for anyhuman authority on Planet Earth, including governments and Africas Self-
ruling Elites.
Anchorage within this context of the Holistic, Divinity and Sacred nature of
Fundamental Human Rights, emanates our considered position that it is
only Forces for Evil that seek to undermine Race Equality and Fundamental
Human Rights, dehumanise and subject humans to indignities, brutalities,
horrific atrocities. Follows to say that we reject a world and an AfricanContinent in which the Race Equality and Fundamental Human Rights of
Majority Citizens are undermined, severely eroded and sabotaged by
whomsoever, for the benefit of any group of peoplesnon-African or African.
From this understanding, The GREAT Trust, Council for Afrika International
and the Afrika Liberation Society consider that Cartel Slavery, Imperialism,
Colonialism, NeoColonialism, African Disunity, Apartheid, Institutional anti-
Africanism & African Marginalisation, Afrophobia, the African Economic
Conundrum and the African Holocaust are all Forces for Evil as they have
persistently and verifiably violated the sacred and inalienable Race Equality
and Fundamental Human Rights of Majority African Peoples. Based on the
evidence of Centuries of Atrocities, Chaos, Economic Terrorism and Crimes
Against Humanity by these Forces for Evil visited upon the African
Continent and her Peoples, we advocate for their rapid eradication to restore
Justice, Human Dignity, Freedom, Equality, Collective and Inclusive Peace,
Stability, Security and Safety.
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Consistent with our strong Race Equality and Fundamental Human Rights
origins, convictions and aspirations, we take a human rights position on the
issue of African Unity that also encompasses the Unification of Africans at
home and the Diaspora alongside the Unification of the African Continent.
As such, we understand African Unity as a sini qua non to restore and
guarantee the Fundamental Human Rights of Majority African Citizens
through the defeat of all Forces for Evil that have undermined these rights
and inflicted millennia horribilis upon the African Peoples, not the least
NeoColonialism, Colonialism, Apartheid, Anti-Africa International
Institutional Racism, Afrophobia, Barbaric Foreign Cartel Slavery.
We believe, that not only is it the case that the imperialist-inflicted
millennia horribilis upon the African Continent and her Peoples is brutish,
brutal and undoubtedly some of the most chilling chain of genocidal,
atrocious phenomena and narratives in human history, but that the African
Continent and Africans deserve millennia mirabilis moving forwards and
the 50th Anniversary of the African Unity Project offers a useful pivotal
moment for either radical transformation of the infrastructure and
architecture of, or total replacement of the continental vehicle for delivering
substantial, robust, rapid and formidable African Unity with renewed
momentum to attain the greatest harvest of results-oriented, measurable,positively-impacting outcomes and impacts for the Majority African Peoples.
A reformist, NeoColonialist African Union infrastructure packed with
unpatriotic and conscienceless bureaucrats cannot deliver African Unity, is
unfit-for-purpose for African Unification cum Liberation and the past 50
years bear these inconsistencies and contradictions out. Only a Patriotic
Africanist Transformational Agency staffed with Patriotic Africans with total
undiminished loyalty to none other but to the AFRICAN Continent, Map,
Anthem, Flag, Coat of Arms, Total African Liberation Cause, Vision and
Mission, and to the Majority African Peoples and fallen Martyrs can.
It is our reflected view, that the situating of the statute of the Osagyefo Dr
Kwame Nkrumah on the forecourts of the African Union institution signals a
defining moment for African Unification. In full grasp of the consequences of
African Disunity, the sinister imperialist attempts to carve and lump North
Africa to the Middle East, the missed opportunities of half a century, the
continued institutional anti-African discrimination at the highest level of the
United Nations Security Council, the recalcitrance of so-called civilized
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North Africa where the African Peoples are self-articulating that enough is
enough of endless cycles of vicious demeaning misery. From country to
country, corruption scandals involving Africas Self-ruling Elites are reported
on a frequent basis, politics has lost every character of critical respectability
and reduced to a gravy trail for politicians, culminating into impotent,
unproductive NeoColonial Nation-state institutions, Regional Institutions,
the African Union institution and other imperialist Continental institutions.
The danger is that invariably and increasingly, the NeoColonial States in
Africa and the African Union institutions have increasingly become part of
the problem rather than part of the solution of African Unity and Total
Liberation of the African Continent. It will be inconceivable and senseless to
mislead and sleep-walk Africa to another 50 years of a horrific merry-go-
round and comedy of tragedies. African Union at 50 is really a definingmoment, whose presenting opportunities for Patriotic Africanist
Revolutionary anti-NeoColonialist and anti-Imperialist Transformation must
not be missed. In this lies a Golden Opportunity.
The 50 year milestone of post-Colonial African Unification is a clarion call on
contemporary African Self-ruling Elite to embrace the significance of the Dr
Nkrumah Statute, symbolizing acknowledgement and honouring of the
contributions of All those who perished consequent to Africa Disunity,Imperialism, NeoColonialism and Apartheid to institutionalize profound
Patriotic African-centred Transforming Interventions in concert with the
destination imperatives of the Total Libertarian and Liberating Vision and
Mission of African Unity. Unless that is done, the AU in its present form
with its characteristic uninspiring, reformist programs would unavoidably
render itself irrelevant to the cause of African Unification and the Total
Liberation of the African Continent. While there will hardly be any tears for a
dysfunctional African Union institution, losing half century out of a
Liberation Agenda is a bombshell, except that key lessons can be learnt out
of those pages of history moving forwards to prevent replication.
The non-performance and non-delivery of the OAU/AU of substantive
African Unity has created a vacuum, facilitated by lack of Patriotic African-
centred, African Unity-savvy, African Liberation-competent, Courageous,
Robust Leaders bold enough to advocate and demand the rights of Africas
1.3billion Citizens and ward-off continued imperialist attacks on the African
Peoples. That vacuum will not exist ad infinitum, is yearning to be filled by
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competent alternatives and the AU leadership would only have themselves to
blame if they continue to fail to respond sufficient efficiency, effectiveness,
rapidity and sensitivity to the wails, sweat, hunger, desperation, tears,
desires, heartbeats of the Majority Indigenous Africans.
In other words, Dr Nkrumah and those who share his rapid and expedited
approach to African Unity and Unification are not to be mocked by the
cosmetic locating of his statute on the forecourts of the AU and that
symbolic act will remain meaningless unless it is linked to the speedy Total
Unification and Liberation of the African Continent and her Peoples from
Imperialism, NeoColonialism, Afrophobia, Anti-African Institutional Racism
right to the UN Security Council, Afrophobia and the Wider African
Holocaust.
Keeping in mind the raison detre, journey travelled, disasters of the African
Union Project in the past half century, the GREAT Trust, Council for Africa
International and the Afrika Liberation Society strongly advocate for Africas
Contemporary Ruling Elites to remember and keep in focus the Clarity and
Height of Consciousness that led to the original momentum of post-Colonial
African Unity and Unification.
Firstly, the NeoColonial nation-state boundaries of Africa were designed for
continued imperialist domination even after the proclamation of limited
political independence. The NeoColonial Institutions of State in Africa that
were created in the colonial period were conceptualized, designed to function
and feed continued imperialist control even after the pilots in the cockpit of
statecraft changed from Caucasian to African. In both instances, reform of
public services would never be sufficient to transform the institutions of the
NeoColonial State to fulfill the functions of the Total Liberation of the African
Continent, of which African Unity is critical. No one African country can
therefore defeat these anti-Africanist Forces for Evil and that needs to be
understood to underscore the significance of African Unity. A house divided
against itself is easy prey for the enemy, including extreme vulnerability to
the extent that any Patriotic African Leader with the guts to protect the
Sovereignty and Fundamental Human Rights of his/her citizens gets easily
conspired against, demonized, crushed and taken down, often with internal
treasonable saboteurs of the Total Liberation of the African Continent. Only
a Patriotic Africanist Revolutionary Transformation of the NeoColonial
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African State stands any chance of winning the long drawn out war of
African Unity and the Total African Liberationthe status quo cannot
because it is not designed to.
Similarly, the Forces for Evil that conspired and unleashed the African
Holocaust are not Nation-state, or even Continental in character, but wider
and essentially International in character. To stand any chances of defeating
International NeoColonialism and Imperialism would require at the very
least a Continental approach and in league with the African Diaspora. It is
from this high alert that the crucial role of a Patriotic Africanist Institution
OAU/AU emerged. Similarly, it is this clear understanding of the limitations
and drawbacks of the NeoColonial African State that propelled the post-
Colonial momentum towards African Unity, Unification and a potentContinental Institution, with Courageous, Bold Patriotic Leadership
equipped with competent advocacy skills, remarkably self-sufficient with a
Strong Continental Economy, renegotiated Trade Terms, able to feed its
Citizens, guarantee Realised Fundamental Human Rights and fulfilled Needs
for Majority African Citizens, militarily defend its Sovereignty with unique
defence capabilities to deliver to Vision, Mission and Purpose.
On this 50th Anniversary [superficial Golden Jubilee is disrespectful of theMartyrs of African Unity and Total Liberation] of the formation of the
OAU/AU, it should be borne in mind that the declaration of Independence in
Ghana in 1957 triggered a cascade of rapid DeColonisation in West,
Eastern, Central and Southern Regions of the African Continent. The
missing link was the firm grasping of the opportunity to sustain that
momentum for the Total Liberation of Continental Africa, while the
NeoColonial State continued to indulge in endless superfluity of critically
unfinished business. After 5 decades, it is time for the OAU/AU to subject
itself to critical introspection, analysis, reflection during which African
Leaders begin to ask themselves straight and direct questions as to why
they have failed so sorely to deliver African Unity to the over One Billion
Majority Africans. An independent Africanist External Review and
Evaluation needs to be carried out in preparation for the radical rethink of
the stated objectives, institutions and proposed institutions, timescales
commensurate with the multiple-crises that afflicts the African Continent
and the very much regrettable stagnated process for the Total Liberation of
the African Continent.
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Expressed differently, not even the AU of 10 years is fit-for-purpose for
delivering African Unity because under its auspices, severe debacles have
embattled it, not excluding the imperialist invasion of Libya by the UN,
NATO and the Arab League without the permission of the African Union
which is the Legal Territorial Authority over the entire African Continent.
That shameful scenario can never happen in the EU for instance. Question
is why so in the AU? Today, that Libyan failure, which could have been
resolved with a highly competent, credible, fit-for-purpose African Diplomacy
and Peaceful Negotiations utilising the hundreds of thousands of Africas
Diplomats, sewed deep seeds of suspicion in international relations which
has subsequently created mayhem in Syria, claiming more than 70,000
lives. As said, our positions remain categorically opposed to all humanrights violation formsAfrican or non-African. We believe that an African
Union institution that cannot defend the Territorial Integrity and
Sovereignty of the African Continent in collaboration with its member states
is a waste of space and needs to be disbanded. Africa requires a Patriotic
African Continental Military Treaty Organization and High Command with
excellent military competencies to dislodge any aggressor against the
Fundamental Human Rights of Africans including foreign religious
extremists such as Boko Haram.
Mindful of the unacceptable foregoing sad account, the minimum
attainments but menu of failures ascribable to the NeoColonial character of
the OAU/African Union institution and the half century wasted, we call for a
fit-for-purpose Patriotic African-centred Continental Union that reflects the
keen sense of urgency and the degree of crises that have been allowed to
beset the Continent and its Majority Citizens, capable of delivering to a
robust Total African Liberation Agenda, Vision, Mission and Purpose, not
the least the guarantee and protection of Fundamental Human Rights of
Africans and Diaspora Africans as well as the Security of its Sovereignty:
1- Embrace the fiercest sense of urgency for African Unification to facilitate the
Total Liberation of the African Continent, given the elapse of 50 years
2- Recognise, acknowledge and keep in mind Africas pedigree as the
scientifically proven Origin of humankind, the Cradle of human civilisation
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and not to disregard the exceptionally resilient Peoples of the
Commonwealth of African States
3- Note and remember the huge cost of African Disunity as continuedentrenchment of NeoColonialism, dehumanisation, fundamental human
rights undermine, mass impoverishment through the yet unblocked vast
amounts of illicit annual capital flight out of developing countries including
impoverished Africa equating US$1.55 Trillion in 2009 with Nigeria alone
losing US$130 Billion per annum.
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4- We put on record that the Mbeki Committee has failed to rapidly stem the
tide of this record capital flight out of Africa and must be rapidly replaced by
a Committee of Patriotic Revolutionary Africans to collect and collate
evidence for the prosecution of the criminals involvedboth foreign and
African. We note a resent attempt to water down the extent of illicit capital
flight out of Africa and reject such moves of sabotage and treasonable
conduct
5-Transformation of the African Union into a Command HQ of Rapid African
De-NeoColonisation and Restoration of Rapid Economic Justice for Africa
6- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for the end of the United
Nations visible anti-African Institutional Racism by its refusal to end the
marginalisation of the 1.3 billion African Citizens from Permanent
Membership of the UN Security Council with Veto Rights. The UN stands outas hypocritical and contradicting its own Universal Declaration of Human
Rights [UDHR] as well as the International Convention on the Eradication of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination [ICERD]. We demand that the African
Union takes appropriate action to initiate a unanimous immediate boycott of
the UN with withdrawal of all Africas diplomats to the UN until the
inclusion demands of the African Peoples are met
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7- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for Reparations Settlements
at the UN for the at least 14 centuries of foreign Crimes Against Humanity
inflicted upon the African Peoples. We hold that Africa and its Peoples on
aggregate owe no one any debts, but rather Africa is owed by former Colonial
and Cartel Slave Trading Nations comparative to which aid is a mere drop in
the ocean because the value of human beings and the opportunity cost of
centuries are simply priceless. This is a Morality Reality Check and an
opportunity for the former Cartel Slaver Countries to atone for Crimes
Against Humanity inflicted towards their needed Redemption.
8- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push to categorically challenge
and reject the big racist anti-Africanist Propaganda Lie that Africans werecomplicit in the Foreign Cartel Enslavement of kin and kith and t5o make
clear that this was a well-calculated ploy to divide the ranks of Persons of
African Ancestry. Unfortunately, this despicable imperialist twisting has
found itself through academia and the History of Cartel Slave Trade in
Africans, indicating the insidious nature of imperialism and its divide and
rule instruments. We alert All Africans and Persons of African Ancestry to
disabuse their minds from this signal of mental enslavement and empower
themselves to the truth of the barbaric nature of imperialism and its
continued efforts to enforce, entrench and consolidate African Disunity
9- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for the replacement of the
Anti-Africanist diminished and undersized Map of the African Continent
with that which Properly Represents the actual size of the African Continent
as consisting of the whole of United States, Europe, China, India and Japan
all combined. Copies of this ground-breaking exposure are available online
including our websites for easy access
10- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for the rapid
Africanisation and restoring ALL of Africas Natural Resources and National
Strategic Assets into the ownership of the Majority Indigenous Africans to
whom God gave them to. No African Government has the legitimate
authority to privatise the African Peoples Property, rather to protect them on
behalf of the people. We hold that privatisation of the African Peoples
Property is an example of unethical dispossession and ReColonisation ofthrough foreign capital which is a key characteristic of the NeoColonial
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State. There must be a zero-tolerance and outright permanent prohibition of
privatisation of any Properties and Assets belonging to the Majority African
Peoples. Rather these must be harnessed, mobilised, retained in the
Collective Ownership of the Majority African Peoples as Citizenship
Entitlements towards the Guarantee and Protection of their Fundamental
Human Rights and the primary purpose of meeting the needs of Majority
Africans i.e. the eradication of abject poverty and economic terrorism
through foreign economic occupation. We hold that there is enough Patriotic
Africanist Managerial talent to efficiently, economically and effectively
manage Africas Rich Natural Resources and Strategic National and Regional
Assets for the primary benefit of Africans who have suffered for far too long.
We advocate that any privatisation of the African Peoples Properties by
Governments must be deemed anti-African, treasonable and revoked withimmediate effect
11- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for rapid facilitation of full
Independence, Self-Sufficiency andReliance and the roll back of the carpet
of increasing dependency, given that the latter undermines Total
Decolonisation and DeNeoColonisation. We call for a Patriotic Africanist
Revolutionary African Union institution and Africas Diplomats to come
together and negotiate a 21stCentury equivalent of Marshal Plan for the
entire African Continent, specifically funded by former Colonial and Imperial
Countries to replace the sparse and negligible International Development
Budgets which is currently the trend.
12- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for rapid Continental
Employment Drive by Major Strategic Infrastructural Developments capable
of rapidly facilitating the Economic Independence Transformation of theAfrican Continent, without compromise to Renewed Momentum of African
Unity and Total Liberation of the African Peoples. We insist that to be
credible, no Unethical Foreign Financial Outline should be applied in this
21st Century Economic Transformation Push and that all attempts to profit
from the centuries of wreckage and havoc of the African Economic
Conundrum, Impoverishment and the African Holocaust will be resisted by
the Majority African Peoples for Justice, Fraternity, Collective Security,
Stability, Peace and Fundamental Human Rights
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13- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for an Ambitious
Modern Agricultural encapsulating Food Sufficiency, Preservation , Storage
and Security to bring an end to hunger, malnutrition and infantile
malnourishment and offset against draughts as well as end dependency on
foreign food products. We believe that African has enough fertile land,
wildlife, marine and water resources to provide adequate food on a long-term
basis for the African Peoples, if properly mobilised
14- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for a 21st Century African
Industrial, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Technological, Engineering,
Educational, Cultural Revolution imperatively integral to the Total
Liberation of the African Continent which is the ultimate purpose of AfricanUnity, Unification of Africa and the African Peoples in Africa and the
Diaspora
15- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for May 2013 to May 2014
to be declared a Period of Transition, Transformation from the existing
NeoColonialist African Union to the fit-for-purpose 21st Century Patriotic,
Africanist, Anti-NeoColonialist, anti-Imperialist, Revolutionary Liberation
Continental Agency of the Commonwealth of African States, Peoples andYouth
16- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for a Patriotic
Africanist Central Bank, with an African Common Currency which it must
have the capacity to print in its own Printing Facility, sufficiently capitalised
by African Gold and other resources, strictly owned by the Majority African
Peoples to fund the financial requirements of African Unity, Total African
Liberation and the African Common Market and to make Africa financially
sustainable and independent, without the need to rely on foreign financial
assistance
17- An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for a Patriotic
Africanist Continental Intelligence Bureau to primarily fulfil the intelligence
needs of African Unity, Total African Liberation and the Sovereignty of a
Liberated Continental Africa. To subsist with this would be a Patriotic
Africanist Continental Bureau of Investigations to support the rapid
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Unification of the African Continent, bringing Anglophone, Francophone,
Luxophone and Arabophone Africa into an integrated Intelligence and
Investigatory High Command to safeguard the Collective Security, Stability,
Safety and Peace of the African Continent, her Peoples and Strategic
Interests.
Notice our deliberate emphasis on Patriotism, Africanism, Continentalism,
Loyalty, Revolutionary, Sovereignty, Collective Stability, Security, Safety,
Peace, Wellbeing, Independence, Commonwealth of Natural Resources and
Strategic Assets, the Race Equality and Fundamental Human and Global
Citizenship Rights of Majority African Citizens and Youth which are all
components of the Total Liberation of the African Continent facilitated by a
fit-for-purpose Patriotic Africanist Revolutionary African Unity Institution for
African Unity, Unification of Africans in Africa and the Diaspora.
The 50th Anniversary of post-Colonial African Unity Project presents the
opportunity for a New Momentum to expedite a viable African Unification to
expedite the achievement of the much-desired Totally Liberated African
Sovereign Continent and Peoples and this must not be missed.
May God Bless Africa to the defeat of all her Enemies!
May God Bless and facilitate the Liberation of All the African Peoples on the
African Continent and the Diaspora!!
May God Bless the Vision, Mission & Purpose of Patriotic Revolutionary
African Unity and Manifest Totally Liberated African Continent!!!
KfAdomdza
Dr Koku Adomdza FRSA, MIOD, DPMSA
President and Senior Fellow,
GREAT GROUP Partnership of
The GREAT Trust Group,
The Council for Afrika International Group,
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The Afrika Liberation Group and
The GREAT Consortium
For further information, please liaise via
Websites:www.greattrustgroup.org
www.afrikainternationalgroup.org
www.afrikaliberationgroup.org
Emails:[email protected]
Phone/Fax: + 447092859885
447092859886
447092987012
The Global Race Equality Action Trust, Society and Foundation The GREAT
Trust Group, The Council for Afrika International Group, The Afrika Liberation
Group are 21st Century prominent, positively change-driven, ethics-inspired,race equality, human rights think and doing tanks at the cutting-edge of
promoting creative and innovation schools of thought, paradigms,
approaches and models for the restoration and manifestation of justice,
fundamental and global citizenship rights for societal stability, peace and
more perfect human civilisation.
The African Union
The African Union (AU, or, in its other official languages, UA) is a union
consisting of 54 African states. The only all-African state not in the AU is
Morocco. The AU was established on 26 May 2001 in Addis Ababa and
launched on 9 July 2002 in South Africa to replace the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) which was founded in 1963. The most important
decisions of the AU are made by the Assembly of the African Union, a semi-annual meeting of the heads of state and government of its member states.
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The AU's secretariat, the African Union Commission, is based in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia.
Overview
The objectives of the AU are:
1.To achieve greater unity and solidarity between the African countriesand the people of Africa;
2.To defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of itsMember States;
3.To accelerate the political and socio-economic integration of thecontinent;
4.To promote and defend African common positions on issues of interestto the continent and its peoples;
5.To encourage international cooperation, taking due account of theCharter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights;
6.To promote peace, security, and stability on the continent;7.To promote democratic principles and institutions, popular
participation and good governance;
8.To promote and protect human and peoples' rights in accordance withthe African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other relevant
human rights instruments;
9.To establish the necessary conditions which enable the continent toplay its rightful role in the global economy and in international
negotiations;
10.To promote sustainable development at the economic, social andcultural levels as well as the integration of African economies;
11.To promote co-operation in all fields of human activity to raise theliving standards of African peoples;
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12.To coordinate and harmonize the policies between the existing andfuture Regional Economic Communities for the gradual attainment of
the objectives of the Union;
13.To advance the development of the continent by promoting research inall fields, in particular in science and technology;
14.To work with relevant international partners in the eradication ofpreventable diseases and the promotion of good health on the
continent.
The African Union is made up of both political and administrative bodies.
The highest decision-making organ is the Assembly of the African Union,
made up of all the heads of state or government of member states of the AU.The Assembly is chaired by Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of
Ethiopia, elected at the 20th ordinary meeting of the Assembly in January
2013. The AU also has a representative body, the Pan African Parliament,
which consists of 265 members elected by the national parliaments of the
AU member states. Its president isBethel Nnaemeka Amadi.
Other political institutions of the AU include
the Executive Council, made up of foreign ministers, which preparesdecisions for the Assembly;
the Permanent Representatives Committee, made up of theambassadors to Addis Ababa of AU member states; and
the Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC), a civil societyconsultative body.
The AU Commission, the secretariat to the political structures, is chaired byNkosazana Dlamini-Zumaof South Africa. On 15 July 2012, Ms. Dlamini-Zuma
won a tightly contested vote to become the first female head of the African
Union Commission, replacing Jean Ping of Gabon.
The main administrative capital of the African Union is in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, where the African Union Commission is headquartered. A new
headquarters complex, the AU Conference Center and Office Complex
(AUCC), was inaugurated on 28 January 2012, during the 18th AU summit.The complex was built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation
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and Corporate Governance.
The African Union has a number of official bodies:
Pan-African Parliament (PAP)
To become the highest legislative body of the African Union. The seat of the
PAP is at Midrand, South Africa. The Parliament is composed of 265 elected
representatives from all 54 AU states, and intended to provide popular and
civil-society participation in the processes of democratic governance. Its
president is the Hon. Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi of Nigeria.
Assembly of the African Union
Composed of heads of state and heads of government of AU states, the
Assembly is currently the supreme governing body of the African Union. It is
gradually devolving some of its decision-making powers to the Pan African
Parliament. It meets once a year and makes its decisions by consensus or by
a two-thirds majority. The current chair of the AU is Hailemariam Desalegn
of Ethiopia.
African Union Authority
The secretariat of the African Union, composed of ten commissioners and
supporting staff and headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In a similar
fashion to its European counterpart, the European Commission, it is
responsible for the administration and co-ordination of the AU's activities
and meetings.
African Court of Justice
The Constitutive Act provides for a Court of Justice to rule on disputes over
interpretation of AU treaties. A protocol to set up the Court of Justice was
adopted in 2003 and entered into force in 2009. It is likely to be superseded
by a protocol creating a Court of Justice and Human Rights, which will
incorporate the already established African Court of Justice and Human and
Peoples' Rights (see below) and have two chambersone for general legal
matters and one for rulings on the human rights treaties.
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Executive Council
Composed of ministers designated by the governments of member states. It
decides on matters such as foreign trade, social security, food, agriculture
and communications, is accountable to the Assembly, and prepares material
for the Assembly to discuss and approve.
Permanent Representatives' Committee
Consisting of nominated permanent representatives of member states, the
Committee prepares the work for the Executive Council, similar the role of
the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union.
Peace and Security Council (PSC)
Proposed at the Lusaka Summit in 2001 and established in 2004 under a
protocol to the Constitutive Act adopted by the AU Assembly in July 2002.
The protocol defines the PSC as a collective security and early warning
arrangement to facilitate timely and effective response to conflict and crisis
situations in Africa. Other responsibilities conferred to the PSC by the
protocol include prevention, management and resolution of conflicts, post-conflict peace building and developing common defence policies. The PSC
has fifteen members elected on a regional basis by the Assembly. Similar in
intent and operation to the United Nations Security Council.
Economic, Social and Cultural Council
An advisory organ composed of professional and civic representatives,
similar to the European Economic and Social Committee. The chair of
ECOSOCC, elected in 2008, is Cameroonian lawyer Akere Muna of the Pan-
African Lawyers Union (PALU).
Specialised Technical Committees
Both the Abuja Treaty and the Constitutive Act provide for Specialised
Technical Committees to be established made up of African ministers to
advise the Assembly. In practice, they have never been set up. The ten
proposed themes are: Rural Economy and Agricultural Matters; Monetary
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and Financial Affairs; Trade, Customs, and Immigration; Industry, Science
and Technology; Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Transport,
Communications, and Tourism; Health; Labour, and Social Affairs;
Education, Culture, and Human Resources.
Financial Institutions
African Central BankAbuja, Nigeria African Investment BankTripoli, Libya African Monetary FundYaound, Cameroon.
These institutions have not yet been established, however, the Steering
Committees working on their founding have been constituted. Eventually,
the AU aims to have a single currency (the Afro).
Human Rights
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, in existence since
1986, is established under the African Charter on Human and Peoples'
Rights (the African Charter) rather than the Constitutive Act of the AfricanUnion. It is the premier African human rights body, with responsibility for
monitoring and promoting compliance with the African Charter. The African
Court on Human and Peoples' Rights was established in 2006 to
supplement the work of the Commission, following the entry into force of a
protocol to the African Charter providing for its creation. It is planned that
the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights will be merged with the
African Court of Justice (see above).
Role of the Diaspora
The Constitutive Act of the AU declares that it shall "invite and encourage
the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our
Continent, in the building of the African Union". The African Union
Government has defined the African Diaspora as "consisting of people of
African origin living outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship
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and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the
continent and the building of the African Union".
Continental Government
The principal topic for debate at the July 2007 AU summit held in Accra,
Ghana, was the creation of a Union Government, with the aim of moving
towards a United States of Africa. A study on the Union Government was
adopted in late 2006, and proposes various options for "completing" the
African Union project. There are divisions among African states on the
proposals, with some (notably Libya) following a maximalist view leading to a
common government with an AU army; and others (especially the southernAfrican states) supporting rather a strengthening of the existing structures,
with some reforms to deal with administrative and political challenges in
making the AU Commission and other bodies truly effective.
Following a heated debate in Accra, the Assembly of Heads of State and
Government agreed in the form of a declaration to review the state of affairs
of the AU with a view to determining its readiness towards a Union
Government. In particular, the Assembly agreed to:
1. Accelerate the economic and political integration of the Africancontinent, including the formation of a Union Government of Africa;
2. Conduct an audit of the institutions and organs of the AU; review therelationship between the AU and the RECs; find ways to strengthen
the AU and elaborate a timeframe to establish a Union Government of
Africa.
The declaration lastly noted the importance of involving the African peoples,
including Africans in the Diaspora, in the processes leading to the formation
of the Union Government.
Following this decision, a panel of eminent persons was set up to conduct
the audit review. The review team began its work on 1 September 2007. The
review was presented to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government at
the January 2008 summit in Addis Ababa. No final decision was taken onthe recommendations, however, and a committee of ten heads of state was
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appointed to consider the review and report back to the July 2008 summit
to be held in Egypt. At the July 2008 summit, a decision was once again
deferred, for a 'final' debate at the January 2009 summit to be held in Addis
Ababa.
Role of Regional Economic Communities
One of the key debates in relation to the achievement of greater continental
integration is the relative priority that should be given to integration of the
continent as a unit in itself or to integration of the sub-regions. The 1980
Lagos Plan of Action for the Development of Africa and the 1991 treaty to
establish the African Economic Community (also referred to as the AbujaTreaty), proposed the creation of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as
the basis for African integration, with a timetable for regional and then
continental integration to follow.
Currently, there are eight RECs recognized by the AU, each established
under a separate regional treaty. They are:
1. the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA)2. the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)3. the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD)4. the East African Community (EAC)5. the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)6. the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)7. the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)8. the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
The membership of many of the Communities overlaps, and their
rationalization has been under discussion for several yearsand formed the
theme of the 2006 Banjul summit. At the July 2007 Accra summit the
Assembly finally decided to adopt a Protocol on Relations between the
African Union and the Regional Economic Communities. This protocol is
intended to facilitate the harmonization of policies and ensure compliance
with the Abuja Treaty and Lagos Plan of Action time frames.