AFRICA: A FOCUS ON THE LARGER PICTURE

AFRICA: A FOCUS ON THE LARGER PICTURE

 Beloved, I am not a tribalist neither am I a nationalist but I am a federalist and Afrikanist to the core. Though I have portrayed myself as a Yorubaman (which I proudly am) and which is presently a subset of Nigeria, I am more concerned with the unity, development and total freedom of the African Continent.

 My earlier outbursts on the Yoruba Nation are designed to challenge the various tribes and in the process the nations/regions in which they have found themselves on the continent of Africa to a healthy and positively motivated competition all focused on who excels in the fight for the creation of a federated United African States. PROJECT AFRIÇA MOVEMENT is a nongovernmental initiative that believes in championing this course.

 This is a patriotic motivation based on the belief that since we presently bring forward our bests to compete in the field of sports, we can also get ourselves organized into tribes to determine who excels in the political struggle for the Total Emancipation of the African Continent. The ultimate Goal is to use the walls of partition created by our past colonizers in “Berlin 1884” as a stepping stone for the Unification of the Continent. 

INTRODUCING THE PAN AFRICAN FEDERALIST MOVEMENT

The Pan African Federalist Movement (PAFM) is a grassroots coalition of organizations and individuals for the political unification of the States on the continent of Africa and those in the Caribbean where the majority of the citizens are of African descent. Its approach is a bottom-up mobilization.  This process is also inclusive of the millions of Black people in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia who are descendants of enslaved Africans or Africans who have voluntarily migrated to those areas but are minorities in their States of residence.

 

PAFM’s goal is to involve the African masses in the discussions and decision-making processes on African Unity. PAFM believe that the people are the legitimate owners of the Sovereignty of the States we want to unite.  We believe it to be self-evident that only the African masses have the true legitimate power to authorize the African states to voluntarily surrender any portion of their sovereignty to an entity which they deem will be able to properly manage it in their best interest.

 

During the last fifty years or more, these States have proven their inability to manage significant portions of their sovereignty and had surrendered them to their former colonizer’s governments who are not accountable to African people.  A Federalist Compact between the African States will allow them to take back those portions of their sovereignty and voluntarily surrender parts of it that they deem fit to a Federal Government “of the African people, by the African people and for the African people”. It is self-evident that this entity will only be accountable to African people and no foreign power.

 

It is our conviction that few genuine Pan Africanists will doubt that a federal government, answering directly to the African People, will do a better job in managing these portions of our sovereignty that the vast majority of African States on the Continent and the Caribbean have surrendered, for various reasons to their former colonizers or to international institutions.

 

Until now only a very limited number of Africans have been involved in this discussion, referred to by some as the Grand Debate.  They have been either the African Heads of State and Government, and academics or people who were close to the leadership of the ruling parties in the different African countries.  The debates on the Union Government prior to the AU Heads of State and Government Summit of 2007 in Accra did not involve the African masses. It was the same for the 1963 Summit which gave birth to the OAU and the Lomé 2000 meeting which gave the green light to the transformation of the OAU into the AU.  The African masses in the Caribbean did not get more consideration than their brethren of the African Continent in the same debate which led to the creation of the CARICOM.

 

It is also important to note that involving the African People in this process is very crucial for the viability of any form of union between their States.  Making the African masses the centerpiece of this initiative will create in them a sense of ownership of its product, the United African States.  This is a sine qua non condition for the legitimacy, in the eyes of the African people, of the Federal Government.

 

Africans on the Continent and in the Diaspora should identify and align with Pan African Federalist Movement instead of political Parties. It is my humble opinion that all Pan African Groups in existence should as a matter of urgency cooperate as vehicles for synergistically achieving the goal of the birth of a federally constituted United African States NOW. WE CAN MAKE IT, IF WE TRY.

  

We cannot use national political parties at this stage because most of them have in the past failed to represent the wishes and aspirations of the masses and have variously been exploiting and plundering their society. 

We are a continent in a hurry.  We need to get it right this time, to launder the dirty rag of shame with which we have been clothed for many generations.

 

As Africans let us all FOCUS ON THE LARGER PICTURE and close ranks against tribal, religious, ethnic and all other divides.

AFRICA MUST UNITE AND BE TOTALLY FREE.

Harambee

 

Shalom

God Bless Africa

God Bless Humanity

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Very truly yours 

For PROJECT AFRIÇA MOVEMENT

Elder (Evang) Solomon Ayodeji Ogunjobi (Déjà vu)a.k.a ORUNMILA messenger to OLODUMARE(The CREATOR)

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