The United States of Africa - Pipe Dream, or the future of the new African economy?
Business in Africa June 2009 By Scherzando Karasu “Hail The United States of Africa-free! Country of the brave black man’s liberty; state of greater nationhood thou has won, A new life for the race is just begun.” Those words written first in 1924 by the activist and poet Marcus Garvey, gave voice to the socio-political world view which seeks to unify native Africans and indeed those of the African Diaspora as part of a, “global African community” The dream of achieving a politically United Africa. “The United States of Africa” is the name sometimes given to one version of the possible future unification of Africa as a national and sovereign federation of states similar in form to the United States of America. Alpha Ouamar Konare former head of the African Union has said, "The battle for the United States of Africa is the only one worth fighting for our generation - the only one that can provide the answers to the thousand-and-one problems faced by the populations of Afri...