USA Africa Dialogue Series - Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Vive La France!

Should it be too difficult to ask for some consistency from "Osagyefo
Bangura"?

He seems to have lost sight of the reasons for his cheering Sarkozy's
military presence in the Ivory Coast ostensibly to quell what was
obviously an insurrection against someone who was democratically
elected and, just in case the flip-flopper doesn't fully remember,
this reasoning accounted for the deluge - the bulk of his 392
postings between January and March 2011:

January:
https://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=sv&scoring=d&filter=0&enc_author=gE_P2BMAAAAJ62S_T80i5RA4VXyc47pQh-kUg4S0n7nbF1Te82ZIng&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2011&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2011

February:
https://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=sv&scoring=d&filter=0&enc_author=gE_P2BMAAAAJ62S_T80i5RA4VXyc47pQh-kUg4S0n7nbF1Te82ZIng&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=2&as_miny=2011&as_maxd=28&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2011

March:
https://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=sv&scoring=d&filter=0&enc_author=gE_P2BMAAAAJ62S_T80i5RA4VXyc47pQh-kUg4S0n7nbF1Te82ZIng&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=3&as_miny=2011&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=3&as_maxy=2011

When it came to France's intervention in Libya - first and foremost
to prevent the mass slaughter of Benghazi's inhabitants – as
threatened by his son, crown prince and chief spokesperson Saif -
Mwalimu Bangura was almost in tears when his golden goose was ousted/
cooked.

True, but not in the Bible: Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah did say, "Seek ye
first the political kingdom and all else shall be added unto you" and
apparently attempted to attain to that goal before being abruptly
deposed by the Ghanaian military on 23 February 1966 ( Is the National
Liberation Circle still there in Accra?)

It will have to be a giant leap to be able to jump from uniting a
disunited African country to uniting the entire landmass of Africa
into a United States of Africa.

Until then, the question remains why, almost half a century later the
Organisation of African Unity having become " the African Union" at
least on paper, is still lacking in the political will and still quite
unable to take care of business in the Ivory Coast, in Libya, in the
Congo, in Darfur which is in Sudan, not to mention the idea of sending
troops to Mali to defend that country's wholeness/territorial
integrity. France has to do it for Africa, since Africa big as he is
cannot do it for himself. Vive La France!

We are to believe in that kind of continental dream, that " The United
States of Africa" which some believe will be constitutionally birthed
sometime in 2017 , will be able to take care of all of Africa's
regional conflicts.

What does North Africa have in common with Africa South of the Sahara
- apart from some member states in the OIC sharing the same landmass?
Certainly not Nasser's dream of Pan-Arabism/ Pan-Islam?

Since I'm not a dreamer, I have my own serious doubts about when
this continental landmass will be amalgamated into one powerful and
united United States of Africa, united with China or with Africom or
with the Arabian peninsular.

" God don't make promises that He don't keep
You got some big dreams baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be
asleep." ( When you gonna wake up? - Dylan)

A United States of South America?
A United States of Europe?
A United States of the Asian landmass?

These are serious questions. It's a giant step between the idealism
of ideology and implementing that ideology in this dangerous, divided
world.

http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/

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