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Africa does not lack ideals; it has proclaimed them often and well. What it now requires is discipline, execution and political courage on a continental scale. The most fitting tribute to the founders will not be remembrance. It will be readiness.
AFRICA DAY

OPINION | Africa Day 2022 comes amid a divided continent

Despite the articulated goals by Africa’s founding fathers such as Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere for the United States of Africa, it seems the ideals of Africa’s unity only…

  • Tinashe Sithole
5 min read
AFRICAN UNION

To create a United States of Africa, tyrants must be ousted. They can run, but they can’t hide

This was not how Moammar Gadaffi wanted to start his tenure as chair of the African Union.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
ABDOULAYE WADE

Who will be the Washington, DC, of Africa?

The United States of Africa is one of few concrete plans on which African leaders agreed as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week’s…

  • Anita Powell
3 min read