Africa's future prosperity lies in individual countries pooling their markets, resources and goals. The African Union can learn from the EU, if its members learn to pay the costs of union. They need mandatory governance standards, and will have to cede some sovereignty.
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December 18, 2007 8:54 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on December 18, 2007 20:54
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iagree with you that there should be strict standards and clear measures for AU membership wether its an economical or political , but for sure most of african countries will fail. yes we have resources natural and human but we dont have desire to improve our continent our people our lives, till now you can see that even the well educated persons create problems defend and support triblism seeking their own interests instead of puplic interests
people who are rulling african countries what are they doing ? making traps for each other,
insulting their people stealing their resource .and for many other ereason no one of them need these measures to be exist, they want a useless body just to get dollar and that all
and ibelieve that what is available oday as AU its a useless body unless we rectify and amend its structure and concepts
April 4, 2007 12:56 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 4, 2007 00:56
I am surprised at the number of un-informed, ill-informed sheeple on earth as well as politically correct hypocrites.
Several polls have consistently shown that about 84% of the American people believe that 911 was an inside job. The fact is the 911 was a RACIST AND HEINOUS CRIME by a group of criminal and racist Americans themselves. There is no video that Federal Bureau of Incompetence could produce of plane hitting the Pentagon. On the contrary, they acted as Foolish PATSIES for the criminal operators of 911 by confiscating and destroying all other camera footage from buildings around Pentagon. Next, WTC7 just committed suicide. Thermate residue has been found as finger print left by the criminals. Please visit 911blogger.com, st911.org and many other sites.
911 official story is a forgery like the protocols of the learned elders of zion. It is as fake as a magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat, and does that mean you can have a rabbit farm from that hat? I cant believe how many idiots that we have.
And the most interesting thing is that most lead researchers of the movement are either Christian or Jewish. The MIT engineer, Jeff King does not sound like an Arab name.
Now what is the connection with Europe? Note the very first post in this discussion starts with Islamophobia. Its probably a patsy of the criminal cabal that pulled off 911. We have a strong feeling that almost ALL THE INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS of EUROPE knew instantly that 911 was a fraud. President Putin himself had carried out such a false flag operation based on blowing Moscow apartment buildings to enter the second Chechen war.
Jon Carlson has written an excellent investigative piece entitled "Russia Watched 9/11 In Real Time On Satellite" which you can find via google using these clues.
Racists of Europe, such as in France, Holland were immediately ready to take full advantage of 911 hoax. India, immediately understood that 911 was a hoax and staged its own fake terrorist attacks to harass Pakistan. Bush used it to harass Pakistan into submitting the father of their nuclear bomb, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to CIA interrogation. There was another goal of 911. Scare Muslim leader into becoming patsies to destroy their society from within. Once it is internally weak, then a stone can be shattered by one blow. Iraq was thus first weakened by sanctions, and then attack to shatter it.
By God, they will not succeed. Allah has power over all things. The universe has hidden dimension and God watches everything from there. That is what is happening. They can conspire but they will be defeated. All those who have died in Iraq from crimes are going to go to heaven. All the Americans who have committed atrocities will go to hell. All Americans or Iraqis who will do good deeds will be judged accordingly. God has absolutely no partiality towards any religion or race.
You are seeing events move extremely fast.
Iran has brought UK to a stalemate. Hezbollah has essentially defeated Israel, in the sense that the latter has failed to obtain its objectives of the war. The racist and heinous crime of the 911 operators has been exposed. This is the lynchpin from which will follow a large change in the world, but not in the way the 911 operators of controlled demolition intended, but totally opposite. The wife cheaters, the newt gingrichs, the pedophiles reagans herbert bush, as in the video "conspiracy of silence" where FBI criminals tried to criminally coverup is now exposed. This is never going to go away. The video evidence is far and wide dispersed on earth and archived.
The true believers from all faiths have joined hands and will not be divided by pedophile, sex crazed, wife cheaters and genocidal murderers and their deception and lies based on psychological tactics of Edward Bernays.
I ask you all for a moment of silence in the honor of 911 truth movement people, Alex Jones, Dr Steven Jones, Dr Fetzer, Dr Jeff King and many others I am failing to mention but God knows them and their reward is with Him.
April 3, 2007 9:37 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 3, 2007 21:37
It is difficult to be a lion, if you are dying from AIDS or diarrhea. I disagree that Africans are mired in their roots. They are unable to escape the quicksand that was left when the colonials packed up. It is true that the world has changed since then and globally we are all advancing. It is impossible to advance; however, if you are just surviving. The cruelest laws of evolution, adapt or die, are irrelevant in our time. You wouldn't say it to a woman with breast cancer. This is because there are ways to defeat breast cancer. There are also ways to defeat poverty. We can help. The Borgen Project estimates that it would take 19 billion a year to raise people from the depths of poverty in a sustainable way.
April 3, 2007 1:34 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 3, 2007 13:34
African countries, by and large, haven't even managed to master the basic art of nationalism. Tribalism is rampant, too rampant for many nations to establish a common indentity within their borders to work toward a common good. So many nations in Africa offer themselves up to more advanced nation predators simply because the game of Divide and Conquer is so academic. You're picked off one by one like weak gazelles being stalked by a pride of lionesses. How many dead gazelles would be alive today if the gazelles were to coordinate a counterattack against the lions? Too much of what it takes to participate in the modern world simply does not originate in Africa. There's American technology, Russian technology, Chinese technology, European technology, even South America manages innovations from time to time. But what of Africa? Perpetually poor, inexcusably ignorant, forever the step child. Its not the fault of any individual, I've worked with Africans educated in the US and Europe, and they are among the brightest out there. African countries and cultures are simply too mired in their roots to break loose and unleash this potential. These bright stars aren't making their way in Africa itself, but only by getting out of Africa and showing the world they're better than the hand fate dealt them.
I don't know the answer, but I will say this. If this inability of African cultures to escape the trap of traditionalism and tribalism results in billions of deaths, I will not shed a tear. Adapt or die. Its the oldest rule in life. Be lions, or be gazelles.
April 3, 2007 10:14 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 3, 2007 10:14
The AU will never get anywhere under it's current structure and Gumede is absolutely correct in his assessment. It is a replicate of the OAU which got nowhere, was riddled with debt and served no purpose other than to protect African leaders and help them retain their dictatorships. The AU is no different and will remain so until it starts to become more responsible and start putting the people of Africa first, not their Presidents. Yes, an absolute must is an agreement signed committing each member country to minimum acceptable standards. As it stands, it is doomed to fail and those westerners donating their taxpayers money to fund the AU are living a false dream.
It's time Africa took responsibility for the continent and stop masking it's failute by blaiming the west and imperialism for their bad governance and inept dogmatic and undemocratic leadership.
It's high time for Africa's leaders to put their people first. It's high time Africa's leaders stopped thinking that they know better than the people they govern.
It's time Africa grew up.
April 3, 2007 12:43 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 3, 2007 00:43
Please don't take this the wrong way but, if the African Union had some of the kind of rules that
the EU has, there would be very few members (if any).
April 3, 2007 12:25 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 3, 2007 00:25
I'm not convinced that the EU can be imposed on Africa unless it is established that far apart nations have a sense of commonality. What connection does Cairo have with Johannesburg? Nations that are contiguous with one another may have a greater chance of establishing a common market if some of them have a significant volume of goods and services that are not found in neighbouring nations. There is no point in having a neighbour expand its markets into a nation unless there will be reciprocity.
April 2, 2007 8:57 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 2, 2007 20:57