AU Commission Chair criticizes AU slow pace

[RWalker]

Recently Chairman of the AU Commission Konare criticized the AU leadership for their failure to create the instrumentalities Africa will need to free herself. He predicted that Africa would be destroyed in 25 years if this isn't rectified. He made these comments in an address to the Pan-African Parliament.

The critique he makes, though limited in some aspects, speaks directly to the failure of the AU leadership to create the needed instrumentalities, which can be summed up as a Pan-African government, what we know as the Union Government concept propagated by Nkrumah and others, required for Africa's true and complete redemption.

Here are my comments on the subject from my post to the Pan-African forum, note that the quotes from the article all start with "`, indicating a quote within a quote, hence only those things which start and / or end with double quotes only are my thoughts and those with the double and single quotes are from the actual article, you will also find the link to the article in the body of the excerpt:


"Malcolm X, our brother Omowale, has taught us that we are nothing without the unity of African people around the world, and that Africa, particularly the African envisioned by Dr. Nkrumah is the key to that global African unity.

"Hence as Kwame Ture consistently reminded us Africa is primary.

"In that light I wish to discuss a recent article discussing AU Commission Chair Alpha Konare's comments on the slow pace of African integration. Here is the essence of those comments as cited in the article:

"`If things do not change, the situation will be hopeless and in 25 years to come, we will see the wiping out of our continent," he told a sitting of the Pan African Parliament in Midrand.

"`If there is no solidarity... this continent will burn," he added. "If we don't take responsibility, it will be our own suburbs, our own homes that will burn."

"`Konare bemoaned the slow pace of putting in place institutions of the AU such as an African court of justice and central continental bank, saying it was time for Africa to take responsibility for itself.

"`Nobody will make Africans happy in the place of Africans," he said to applause.

"`The African agenda will not be determined in New York, Brussels, Paris or London. They can help, but they cannot replace us."

"African continent facing wipe out - AU"
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"This position, although still a little naive about the intent of the west, or north if you will, (we would say imperialists but then we adherents to the Pan-African line personified by the likes of Osagyefo are revolutionaries are unconditionally wedded to the scientific classification of political economic phenomena)is consistent with the more progressive positon on comprehensive integration of the continent held by the AU Commission generally, as opposed to the "club of leaders" stance of the AU proper.

"We might also differ with br. Konare's timetable for disaster. Africa is already burning and has been for decades, indeed centuries. Time has already run out.

"However, having said that we have to realize that the AU Commission positions and activities are far aged of those of the general AU, which is all to similar to the stalling tactics of its predecessor organization the OAU. After all some of you might recall that the Commission has been the source of some of the most productive ideas and systems in the AU, and their posture on the issues of youth, women, the diaspora and other areas would be a great improvement in the AU contribution to our common well being, if the AU were to embrace them fully. I would implore you to do all you can at whatever level you can to support and enhance the work and ideas of the more positive elements involved in the AU process, without abandoning the positive and constructive criticism of it's shortcomings and failings, as we should with our own work, our own thought, and that of the many organizations in the African global nation.

"Remember without Africa we are nothing; anyone who does not understand this is in effect a dead man/woman walking."

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Now for us the real task is to use information such as this to educate our people around the world, and tactically since most of our centered in the western hemisphere and the US in particular, among the Africans in the west, about the vital necessity of creating a continental government that will take hold of Africa, and shape it so that it meets the urgent needs of all of us, wherever we are in the world. In other words an Africa that the Garveys, the DuBois, the Nrkumahs, the Tures, the Kwame Tures, the Malcolm X/Omowales of the world would recognize as a proper Africa. An Africa that is truly for the Africans in deeds as well as rhetoric.

Africa, as we all know is an immensely rich continent, only her people are poor. Proper political agency, proper political system will end this systematic robbery and enslavement. How long must we suffer it has been centuries already, it is time for this to end, long past time. We must get organize, as Malcolm said in the context and framework of Pan-Africanism and as Sister Commander Shakura said in an all-African, scientific, revolutionary nationalist and internationalist manner.

Long live our principled struggle to free ourselves from the "devil" and the satanic system.