Posted on 06/15/2007 8:09:44 AM PDT by dead
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi and visiting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe want African leaders to agree next month to unite Africa under one government to help it solve its own problems, state media said on Thursday.
The two men, both among the world’s longest serving leaders, agreed in talks in Tripoli on Wednesday that the 53-nation African Union (AU) should be turned into an embryonic federal government at an AU heads of state summit in Ghana on July 1-2.
“They consulted on the upcoming African Union summit due to be held in Ghana, and in relation to this they emphasised the establishment of the African Union government,” Libya’s official Jana news agency said.
“This plan embodies the hopes and ambitions of the continent’s people, and the only means for the continent’s independence, political and economic freedom and progress and development,” it added.
Gaddafi has long favoured the establishment of a United States of Africa as a means of ridding the continent of 800 million people of what he calls Western colonialism. The project attracts emotional support from some in Africa since the idea of a federal United States of Africa was first promoted by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and pioneer of Pan-Africanism, but many doubt its practicality.
The topic is due to be debated at the Ghana gathering, which will take place 50 years after Ghana became the first black nation in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence.
Jana said the two leaders also discussed a number of other issues but did not elaborate. There was no mention of energy ties between Zimbabwe and oil-producing Libya.
Zimbabwe had received oil from Libya under a $360 million loan facility which the southern African country was meant to repay in part by supplying agricultural produce to Tripoli, but the deal collapsed in late 2002 after Harare failed to meet its obligations. - Reuters
Sounds like a plan to make room for islamic expansion even if Mugabe doesn’t get it.
They are welcome to try to found a FedGov of Africa, but such an initiative must come from Commerce.
Well, who doesn’t want a pony?
I wouldn’t worry about it too much. It has about as much chance of happening in the next 100 years as a Nigerian moonbase.
“next 100 years as a Nigerian moonbase.”
Lets hope not, I have some lucrative contracts there based on e-mails and fax’s I have received. One of the partners is even a congressman.
They tell me I am on the road to great rewards and only have a few more dollars to invest to get to the stupidity level.
/sarc
Exactly. They have been killing and enslaving each other for thousands of years in tribal warfare, and tribal warriors of the same tribe kill each other for being from a different village.
Sure they do. It’s all part of the New World Order. I’ve mentioned this before. I had a professor in the early 60’s that mentioned this. Now we have the EU, but England can’t be part of it as long as they have a Monarchy but it will happen. Now we are looking at the North American Alliance or Union between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Someday you will see the AU, Aisian Union. My professor predicted this would happen, maybe in my great grandchildrens days. He didn’t see the coming of the internet though and things are moving faster.
One big problem for us though is that before you can have the NAU, you have to nullify our Constitution. It’ll happen one of these days if our people don’t get on the ball and elect Congressmen that have balls.
That’s exactly what people said about the EU. It’ll happen.
oh yea a good idea. They can make Mugabe president of all of Africa. Then he can do for (TO) the rest what he has done for ZIM. I’m sure all the other countries want that.
The United States of Africa?
The United States of America grew from a beginning point, and was crafted as it went. This would be the stitching together of some totally disparate cultures and a mix of languages that would make even Europe seem to be a totally homogeneous and seamless single culture.
And it would almost certainly be a Muslim caliphate within a generation. Now while that idea, in the abstract, might not seem so bad, effectively it means that Africa will be reduced to approximately the level of the Palestinian Authority today, with endless internal strife.
Actually, not much change form the present situation.
True, but it won’t taste like chicken.
Already done. The Constitution, the one our fore fathers created, is dead.
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