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2007-06-21, Issue 309

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The United States of Africa: The challenges
Demba Moussa Dembele

Demba Moussa Dembele examines the external and internal challenges faced by Africa in the face of globalization and the US led war on terror and asks if the current African leadership is up to building the United States of Africa in the present global environment.

English: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/40573
French: http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/40752

The essential building blocks of the pan-African vision
Issa Shivji

Issa Shivji continues the debate on the creation of a 'United States of Africa'. Drawing on past experience and present initiatives of regional cooperation in East Africa, he suggests that the economic focus should be at the level of production – capital and labour, rather than on trade. Politically, it should be people-centred rather than state-oriented.

English: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/40765
French: http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/comment/41659

Pan African unity: Can Africa match the bid?
Gichinga Ndirangu

The idea of a United States of Africa is the visionary outcome of a Pan African Unity. Gichinga Ndirangu presents the case for a United States of Africa and points out some of the major stumbling blocks that need to be overcome before Nkrumah’s dream of a united Africa becomes a reality.

Plan d’action pour un Etat fédéral africain
Sanou Mbaye (2007-05-25)

Au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale, deux écoles de pensées dominaient les débats chez les militants des indépendances africaines. Il y avait, d’un côté, les «modérés», alliés des occidentaux, qui étaient partisans du maintien des frontières artificielles héritées du colonialisme, et de l’autre, les «progressistes» qui militaient pour des indépendances devant conduire à la mise sur pied d’un gouvernement continental devant présider aux destinées des Etats-Unis d’Afrique. Les premiers l’ayant remporté sur les seconds, l’Afrique s’est ipso facto dotée d’un environnement économique impropre au développement, comme cela s’est vérifié depuis les indépendances.

http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/41661

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