Africa Unity & Unification at 50: The Global Race Equality Action Trust - Great Trust

The GLOBAL RACE EQUALITY ACTION TRUST GREAT TRUST
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Date: 25th May, 2013/ For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Joint Media Release Great Trust, Council For Afrika International And The Afrika Liberation Society
AFRICA UNITY & UNIFICATION @ 50

Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? The answer is Five, because deciding is different from doing.
Transform into a Fit-For-Purpose, Viable, Competent, Patriotic Africanist Revolutionary Continental Agency for African Unity or Disband Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Emperor Haile Selassie and the Pioneers of African Unification cannot be Mocked!
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
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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 it is 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 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
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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 New Revolutionary 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 and mass misery of Dependency through Foreign Finance Capital domination the new instrument of African Enslavement. These are undisputed Forces for Evil which must be Collectively resisted, exposed, countered, eradicated at
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the behest of a Patriotic, Loyal, anti-Imperialist African Union Leadership, fit-forpurpose 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, Candor, 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 AntiNeoColonialist 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 African Continent. 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
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sacrifices that the martyrs made to African Unity, Unification of Africans and the Total 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 the OAU/AU and integral to the wider vision of the Total Liberation of the African Continent and her longsuffering 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
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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 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 based is 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 fundraising campaigns 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
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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 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, Apartheid and 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
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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 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 of the 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.
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Against the backdrop of the foregoing summarized chronicle of a disastrous and 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. 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 of criminal characteristics and treasonable implications. The existing trend, unless immediately arrested, would effectively mortgage the future of
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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 preeminence 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 unabating 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 of the GREAT Trust, the Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society 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
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al, in their wisdom were apt to unpack and unmask the international character of predominant anti-Africanism, African Disunity, Colonialism, NeoColonialism and Imperialism 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 antiAfricanism 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 rapidly reversed 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, the Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society 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-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
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repression or political DeColonisation with economic dependency these 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 any human 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 African Continent 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 peoples non-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 antiAfricanism & 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. 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
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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, positivelyimpacting 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
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discrimination at the highest level of the United Nations Security Council, the recalcitrance of so-called civilized Cartel Slaver Colonial Nations to pay reparations and the continued Economic Terrorism against the African Peoples through the African Holocaust and anti-African Conspiracy of Forces for Evil suggest nothing less, than a Comprehensive 21st Century Patriotic Africanist Revolutionary Transformation, commencing with the African Union institution to expedite the Total Liberation of the African Continent and her Peoples with the fiercest sense of urgency. A central vehicle to deliver the Total Liberation of the African Continent hitherto has been that of an African Union institution in which the NeoColonial Nation States will be reformed as the bona fide key institutional stakeholders. Unfortunately this exclusive privilege is presently threatened by the 50 year luck-luster performance / non-performance of the African Union institution. As its track record tells, the African Union institution has exercised no monopoly of the best panacea to deliver African Unity or African Unification. So far the evidence points to a comedy of tragedies, missed opportunities, continued entrenchment of the African Holocaust, ReColonisation of the African Continent under African Self-rule where limited orthodox Democracy, Rule of Law, Free Market have become a feasting ground for self-enrichment, chest-beating, empty penchant for high office, lack of candor for effective advocacy for Africa and her Peoples in the international arena. We have got to become creative, employ lateral thinking and begin to explore other avenues and paradigms for Africas Collective Total Unity, Liberation, Independence and Self-sufficiency. As the axiom runs, when one door is closed, many more are opened. Africa is already eclipsed in cataclysmic circumstances where the Fundamental Human Rights of Majority Citizens are practically non-existent, where the average monthly income is far below subsistence and less than a dollar a month and the gap between the rich and impoverished, malnourished widens endlessly against the backdrop of centuries horribillis.
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The African Disunity debacle after a half century miserable trajectory has brought the Continent onto an untenable cliff-edge, awaiting tip-over time into restless oblivion and a possible period of renewed African Resistance for the Majority Africans who hopelessly have nothing to lose from an unjustifiable avoidable things-fall-apart situation. Post-Colonial Dictatorial regimes and Military rules have failed the African Peoples; and so has Orthodox Democratic forms of government of old to the Spring Uprisings of 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 defining moment, whose presenting opportunities for Patriotic Africanist Revolutionary anti-NeoClonialist and antiImperialist 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
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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 Unitysavvy, 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 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.
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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 African State stands any chance of winning the long drawn out war of African Unity and the Total African Liberation the 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 potent Continental 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
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defend its Sovereignty with unique defence capabilities to deliver to Vision, Mission and Purpose. On this 50th Anniversary [superficial Golden Jubilee is disrespectful of the Martyrs 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 multiplecrises that afflicts the African Continent and the very much regrettable stagnated process for the Total Liberation of the African Continent. 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 human rights violation forms African or
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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 Africancentred 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 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 continued entrenchment 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. http://www.gfintegrity.org/storage/gfip/documents/reports/IFF2011/tipsheetillicit_financial_flows_from_developing_countries_over_the_decade_ending_2009.pdf
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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 involved both 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 DeNeoColonisation 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 out as 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 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
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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 were complicit 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 AntiAfricanist 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 groundbreaking exposure are available online including our websites for easy access 10An 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 of through foreign capital which
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is a key characteristic of the NeoColonial 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 with immediate effect 11An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for rapid facilitation of full Independence, Self-Sufficiency and Reliance 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 21st Century 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. 12An Ethical Patriotic African Revolutionary Push for rapid Continental Employment Drive by Major Strategic Infrastructural Developments capable of rapidly facilitating the Economic Independence Transformation of the African Continent, without compromise to Renewed Momentum of African Unity and Total Liberation of the African Peoples. We insist that to be credible, no
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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 13An 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 14An 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 African Unity, Unification of Africa and the African Peoples in Africa and the Diaspora 15An 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 and Youth 16An 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
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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 17An 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 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!
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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, GREAT Group Partnership of the GREAT Trust, the Council for Afrika International & the Afrika Liberation Society
For further information, please liaise via

Websites: www.thegreattrust.org www.thecouncilforafrika.org www.theafricaliberation.org Emails: greatinformation@groupmail.com afrikainformation@groupmail.com afrikaliberationinformation@groupmail.com Phone/Fax: + 447092859885 447092859886 447092987012
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The Global Race Equality Action Trust GREAT Trust, The Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society are 21st Century prominent, positively change-driven, ethics-inspired, race equality, human rights think and doing tanks at the cutting-edge
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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. 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 countries and the people of Africa; 2. To defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of its Member States;
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4. To promote and defend African common positions on issues of interest to the continent and its peoples; 5. To encourage international cooperation, taking due account of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human 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 with the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other relevant human rights instruments; 9. To establish the necessary conditions which enable the continent to play its rightful role in the global economy and in international negotiations; 10. To promote sustainable development at the economic, social and cultural levels as well as the integration of African economies; 11. To promote co-operation in all fields of human activity to raise the living standards of African peoples; 12. To coordinate and harmonize the policies between the existing and future Regional Economic Communities for the gradual attainment of the objectives of the Union; 13. To advance the development of the continent by promoting research in all fields, in particular in science and technology; 14. To work with relevant international partners in the eradication of preventable diseases and the promotion of good health on the continent.
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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 is Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi. Other political institutions of the AU include
the Executive Council, made up of foreign ministers, which prepares decisions for the Assembly; the Permanent Representatives Committee, made up of the ambassadors to Addis Ababa of AU member states; and the Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC), a civil society consultative body.
The AU Commission, the secretariat to the political structures, is chaired by Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma of 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 as a gift from the Chinese government, and accommodates, amongst other facilities, a 2,500-seat plenary hall and a 20-story office tower. The tower is 99.9 meters high to signify the date 9 September 1999, when the Organization of African Unity voted to become the African Union.
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Other AU structures are hosted by different member states:
the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights is based in Banjul, the Gambia; and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and APRM Secretariats and the Pan-African Parliament are in Midrand, South Africa.
The AU covers the entire continent except for the les parses, Runion, Mayotte, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Madeira, Canary Islands, Spanish North Africa, and Morocco. Morocco is not a member because its government opposes the membership of Western Sahara as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. However, Morocco has a special status within the AU and benefits from the services available to all AU states from the institutions of the AU, such as the African Development Bank. Moroccan delegates also participate at important AU functions, and negotiations continue to try to resolve the conflict with the Polisario Front in Tindouf, Algeria and the parts of Western Sahara. The AU's first military intervention in a member state was the May 2003 deployment of a peacekeeping force of soldiers from South Africa, Ethiopia, and Mozambique to Burundi to oversee the implementation of the various agreements. AU troops were also deployed in Sudan for peacekeeping in the Darfur conflict, before the mission was handed over to the United Nations on 1 January 2008 UNAMID. The AU has also sent a peacekeeping mission to Somalia, of which the peacekeeping troops are from Uganda and Burundi. The AU has adopted a number of important new documents establishing norms at continental level, to supplement those already in force when it was created. These include the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (2003), the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (2007), the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and its associated Declaration on Democracy, Political, Economic and Corporate Governance.
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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 civilsociety 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. 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
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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 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.
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Financial Institutions

African Central Bank Abuja, Nigeria African Investment Bank Tripoli, Libya African Monetary Fund Yaound, 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 African Union. 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 and nationality and who are willing to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union".
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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 southern African 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:
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Accelerate the economic and political integration of the African continent, including the formation of a Union Government of Africa; Conduct an audit of the institutions and organs of the AU; review the relationship between the AU and the RECs; find ways to strengthen the AU and elaborate a timeframe to establish a Union Government of Africa.
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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 on the recommendations,
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however, and a committee of ten heads of state was 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
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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 Abuja Treaty), 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:
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the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) the East African Community (EAC) the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
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