Letter To Africa Union - Mr Jean Ping

Below is a letter written to Chairman Ping - African Union Association.
The letter read as follows:

African Union HeadquartersAttention:
Chairperson Mr. Jean Ping
P.O. Box 3243 Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia

Chairperson Ping:

I realize that you are very busy getting ready for the upcoming conference, but I have one more thing to say before the January 2009 conference. That is, I had a chance to do more reading concerning a United States of Africa. I logged on to the United States of Africa blob - web site, and read quite a few of the remarks in response to the question - “Is African unity a dream worth pursuing“?

Prior to the reading, I had read some of the remarks, but this time, I have made and effort to read all of the responses. I am surprise of the number of responses who were very much in favor of an united government - an United States of Africa.

I have notice a great deal of concern for the political views of Africans in the north as opposed to those in Eastern Africa and South Africa. .

Quotes from the United States of Africa - blob web-site.

Abednego Majack in Rumbek, Sudan writes
“United States of Africa? The phrase sound good but the question is, do we really see ourselves as African regardless of our colonial boundaries, religions and regional groupings? Here in Sudan our problem is greed that hides behind religious claims such as a non-Muslim cannot rule a Muslim. What is so much special with our creeds that we totally failed to understand that we are all still Africans living on the African continent?

Kwame Nkrumah's vision of a united Africa is at threat unless the Pan African Ideology is fully understood in Somalia, Sudan, Mauritania and Egypt so that people in these countries see themselves as African and not Arabs, see themselves as brothers and sisters not Muslims and Christians. Acquiring an Arab naturalization either through birth or by religion is fine but does it mean creating an Arab continent within the African one?

The AU must be very serious when considering how to make African unity attractive otherwise the continent will still remain in two halves, sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa and problems will develop along that fault line”

Philip A Boldit in Texas, USA writes
“A United Sates of Africa is a dream that is attainable. I think that eastern Africa, together with South Africa will be the first to achieve this dream.But what Africa needs now is the assurance from the big powers, like UK, France, USA and China that a united Africa is not a threat to their interests.African Arab countries of Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, and Mauritania will have a difficult choice: They will either look more to the Middle East or accept the political reality of being Africans ahead of anything else.”

As you will note in my proposal entitled “An African Mandate 2008 - Forging A Nation, I suggested that Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi be appointed the first president of Africa.
As Christians, which include a great deal of blacks in Africa; it is my belief that their religion can withstand the challenger of opening the highest role of government to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi I can not think of any other way of uniting all African within a short period of time than by giving Col. Qaddafi a chance to unite Arabs and all other Africans as one. This will at lease give Arabs a chance to start thinking of themselves as Africans.

I think it is more important to give Col Qaddafi the first chance to unite Arabs as African than for - lets say for Nigeria President or Kohifa Ann to prove their concern for Arabs.. As President - I do not think - being President will in no shape or form be a problem for
Nigeria President nor Kofi Annan to embrace Arabs as Africans. It appears that the problem will be for Arabs to embrace Africans as their brother and sisters. As President of an United States of Africa this will be Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi job.

Africans have survive wars, Colonialism, the Apartheids and all kinds of endurance, so I believe that they can survive one more test of their faith by offering an olive branch to the Arabs - Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi It appears to me that this may be the biggest obstacle to establishing an united government.

Anything else will probably require years and years of trial and errors.
It is my understanding that there are many Tribes of Africans on the Continent. I do not think uniting the Tribes will be as big of a problem as the Arabs; as long as the government does not force changes upon the Tribes. Due justice to the various Tribes - in my opinion - will be to guarantee the Constitutional - recognition of equal representation in the government. One man - One vote. And this is all the Arabs should demand as Africans. Being a United States of Africa will not require everyone be black Africans, act as black Africans nor even think as black Africans; nor should it requires anyone else to think and act as Arabs.

Thank you,