Scrutinizing Pan-Africanism II

Just a tweet thread that I felt was good enough to be put in a blog because of the noteworthy points put across. 

From the @Mnu_Mpofana Twitter/X account: 

• The problem is people just saying Africa must "unite" & to me that sounds like imperialism & ethnic warmongering after all the damage Berlin Conference borders have done. It's vain. For example, when Wode Maya says Africa must "unite" - does he want Africa to be under Asante rule? 

• Unity for the sake of unity is not always strength. The bigger the union, the easier it is to attack & "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Rather make ethnic states then standardise; rail, mail, education, road rules & driving licence across the continent FIRST. 

• Even if we can standardise these core industries, the best we can hope is to be a federation & not a centralised entity with a unified set of laws. 

• I think many Africans get inspiration from USA & EU with the many states cooperation then think we can make our own NATO & pull our resources together forgetting that other countries would have to subsidise others for a centralised continental state to exist. 

• Using Ghanaian gold to build Tanzanian infrastructure & using Congolese land & resources to build continental electricity stations for Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic etc. I don't think Ghana & Congo would approve. 

I still think it's better to standardise systems than a "United States of Africa". A Pan-African language is also bombastic dreams & would be better replaced with translators. Swahili, Arabic, Portuguese, English, French & Hausa are the biggest languages in Africa. In Uganda, for example, the majority speaks Luganda so would get people who are fluent Luganda speakers & fluent in one of the other six major African languages to be used by diplomats in the AU or on diplomatic missions. If we could simply standardise rail, mail, education, automotive manufacturing industry, air travel, road rules, driving licence & perhaps electricity production across Africa - lots of things could align & become simplified continent-wide without Africa becoming a centralised state. 

CONCEPT FOR A CONTINENTAL AFRICAN CURRENCY FRAMEWORK

The first Scrutinizing Pan-Africanism blog post I did.