[SBI]

Very interesting article as we expect from Chinweizu.
The Arabo-phobia is justifiable, however must a continent-wide debate about the political and economic future of Africa be reduced to racist banalities?
If we took the next 5 years to contemplate a referendum what would be the issues on the table? To be a Monkey or to be a Python?
Let's not forget that the idea of a United Africa was not originally Gadaffi's, Kwame Nkurumah who has been acknowledged by many as a political visionary mooted this idea of an African superstate involving the political unification of African states in the '60s.
Nkurumah at the time gave 3 priority objectives of the proposed union:
1.Economic consolidation
2.Unified defense strategy or command
3.Homogenized foreign policy

The idea itself exudes many positive points that can deliver solutions to many of the problems of Africa, including the seemingly intractable tragedy in southern Sudan.
If, as Chinwiezu has pointed out, an embrace with the Arabs in the name of continental unity is likely to become certain suicide for Black Africa, is there a possibility of continuing with the idea as a US of Black Africa?

According to Nkurumah: 'The forces that unite us (should be) far greater than the difficulties that divide us at present, and our goal must be the establishment of Africa’s dignity, progress and prosperity'.....Even if those forces include a common suspicion of Arab intent.
Afterall, the Soviet Union was able to achieve a strong political union to the exclusion of several other states on the European continent. So sharing the same land boundaries does not automatically become the sole criteria for desiring political union.

Perhaps, one of the stronger Black African leaders can seize the initiative back from Gadaffi to drive the process from a different and more black African perspective.

Perhaps Chinweizu could help us all out by highlighting those forces that can drive us towards a desirable union over and above the difficulties that divide us today because if we remain as divided individual and still fragmenting states as we are today I suspect Black Africa won't stand a camel's chance in the atlantic against the odds of making any of our collective aspirations.


SBI