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Nuff Respect to Senegal!
Africa leaders argue over federal gov't
published: Tuesday | July 3, 2007
( L - R ) Gaddafi, Wade, Mbeki
ACCRA (Reuters):
African leaders argued fiercely yesterday over whether to create a single state stretching from the Cape to Cairo, and Senegal said the continent would only survive if it united now under one government.
Delegates said the atmosphere in an African Union summit was charged as a group of states led by [COLOR=black! important][COLOR=black! important]Libya's[/COLOR][/COLOR] Muammar Gaddafi and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade argued with a more gradualist group led by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki.
"I think everybody is a little bit tense, because they know how serious this is" said Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio.
Heated
"It is getting heated between Gaddafi and the southern Africans," said one delegate, who did not want to be identified.
While almost all the 53 member nations agree with the goal of African integration and eventual unity, most of the summit leaders want this to be a gradual process.
But passions ran high among the proponents of unity, who want a federal government immediately as the only way to fight poverty and a myriad of other challenges, including globalisation.
"Some of us think that Africa's unity has become a matter of survival ... my president is here with his pen ready to sign," Gadio told reporters.
He held out the prospect that a small group of states could forge ahead by themselves and sign up to federation.
Power
"If Senegal wants to build this union with two, three, four more countries, there is not a country in this room that has enough power to tell Senegal you cannot do it," he said.
"Some will start and theothers will follow ... Now, who is ready to start? Senegal is ready." Gaddafi, known for his im-passioned rhetoric, was more restrained yesterday despite a speech on the summit's eve invoking the spirit of pan-African icon, Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence 50 years ago to support his vision of a United States of Africa.
The African National Anthen
Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our Father's [COLOR=#3366cc! important][COLOR=#3366cc! important]land[/COLOR][/COLOR]
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all Africans
As it's been said already
Let it be done right now
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
So Africa unite, Africa unite, yeah
Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving to our Father's land
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all Africans
As it's been said let it be done
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
So Africa unite, Africa unite, yeah
Africa unite 'cause the children want
To come home, Africa unite, Africa unite
It's later, later than you think
It's later, later than you think
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for the Africans abroad
Unite for the Africans a yard
Nuff Respect to Senegal!
Africa leaders argue over federal gov't
published: Tuesday | July 3, 2007
( L - R ) Gaddafi, Wade, Mbeki
ACCRA (Reuters):
African leaders argued fiercely yesterday over whether to create a single state stretching from the Cape to Cairo, and Senegal said the continent would only survive if it united now under one government.
Delegates said the atmosphere in an African Union summit was charged as a group of states led by [COLOR=black! important][COLOR=black! important]Libya's[/COLOR][/COLOR] Muammar Gaddafi and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade argued with a more gradualist group led by South Africa's Thabo Mbeki.
"I think everybody is a little bit tense, because they know how serious this is" said Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio.
Heated
"It is getting heated between Gaddafi and the southern Africans," said one delegate, who did not want to be identified.
While almost all the 53 member nations agree with the goal of African integration and eventual unity, most of the summit leaders want this to be a gradual process.
But passions ran high among the proponents of unity, who want a federal government immediately as the only way to fight poverty and a myriad of other challenges, including globalisation.
"Some of us think that Africa's unity has become a matter of survival ... my president is here with his pen ready to sign," Gadio told reporters.
He held out the prospect that a small group of states could forge ahead by themselves and sign up to federation.
Power
"If Senegal wants to build this union with two, three, four more countries, there is not a country in this room that has enough power to tell Senegal you cannot do it," he said.
"Some will start and theothers will follow ... Now, who is ready to start? Senegal is ready." Gaddafi, known for his im-passioned rhetoric, was more restrained yesterday despite a speech on the summit's eve invoking the spirit of pan-African icon, Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence 50 years ago to support his vision of a United States of Africa.
The African National Anthen
Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're going to our Father's [COLOR=#3366cc! important][COLOR=#3366cc! important]land[/COLOR][/COLOR]
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all Africans
As it's been said already
Let it be done right now
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
So Africa unite, Africa unite, yeah
Africa unite
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon
And we're grooving to our Father's land
How good and how pleasant it would be
Before God and man
To see the unification of all Africans
As it's been said let it be done
I tell you who we are under the sun
We are the children of the Rastaman
We are the children of the Higher Man
So Africa unite, Africa unite, yeah
Africa unite 'cause the children want
To come home, Africa unite, Africa unite
It's later, later than you think
It's later, later than you think
Unite for the benefit of your people
Unite for the Africans abroad
Unite for the Africans a yard