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 building businesses across borders, hiring across borders, falling in love across borders. The generation that grew up with the internet does not see a Ghanaian and a Nigerian the way our grandparents did. Gaddafi was right about the destination. He was just the wrong vehicle and the wrong moment. The United States of Africa will not be declared in a speech. It will arrive quietly through trade, through movement, through a generation that finds nationalism embarrassing. We are already closer than we think.