People keep talking about African unity like it’s a dream. It is already happening, just slowly and without the headlines. ECOWAS allows free movement across sixteen West African countries. The African Continental Free Trade Area is live and growing. Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda have been easing borders for years. Young Africans are…

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In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi pushed one of the most ambitious ideas in modern African history: a United States of Africa.

His vision went far beyond speeches about Pan-Africanism. He proposed a single African passport, free movement across the continent, a common currency, a shared defense force, and a united political bloc that could negotiate…

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The United States has reportedly reduced its visa processing locations across Africa from around 50 sites to just 20.

For people living in countries without a processing center, applying for a U.S. visa may now involve crossing an international border, paying for flights, accommodation, transport, and taking time off work—before a consular…

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This hit me. We will fly home for a funeral without a second thought, organize the whole diaspora chapter, raise five figures in a week. But suggest a development meeting and suddenly everyone’s calendar is full. I think part of it is that funerals and weddings have an end date and a clear ritual. Development doesn’t. It’s open ended, it…

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Across Africa, many villages have successful sons and daughters living abroad who collectively send billions of dollars home every year — more than $100 billion last year alone according to World Bank Data. Yet it is not uncommon to find beautiful homes sitting beside unpaved roads, unreliable water systems, struggling clinics, and weak local…

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It is an excuse. The Asian tigers were once colonised like Africa too. But they have managed to pull their people from the mire of poverty. But here in Africa, there is serious looting of resources.

Now we are talking. Too much complaining is happening. Oh they treated this african this way or they treated that african that way.

The only focus we should have as Africans is to discuss how we can work together to solve our own problems. As long as people are working as individual countries, ‘divide and conqueur’ still works.

Africa is one of…

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Way forward, Berlin conference in Germany was the piece of cake on table. Africa was shared like a piece of cake.

The best approach is for Africans to have their own conference not to share Europe but to break free from their disfunctioning of Africa as a people.

To me colonialism is a scam. It’s a direct proportion of slavery. The difference is, they are not longer the once to punish us but the punishment comes from our own people with our own colors and behavior. The roles of the game remain the same but we handle it for them.

The point they are trying to create in us is that, they will forever…

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In 1957 Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from Britain. Three years later in 1960 Ghana had a higher GDP per capita than South Korea — a country that had just been freed from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. Both colonized. Both starting from scratch. Today South Korea’s GDP per capita is $36,000. No…

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Oooh my goodness that’s terrible