Freedom of Africa Is What We Need

We cannot rely solely on foreign aid and their professional dupings to enrich our continent unless we are free from their wicked slave trade. They do not want us to be greater than them, which is why they always try to help when there is a crisis in some African countries, and the motive backing that aid is not going to give us peace in the long run.

The emergence of such a mighty stabilising force in this strife-worn world should be 
regarded not as the shadowy dream of a visionary, but as a practical proposition, which the peoples 
of Africa can, and should, translate into reality. There is a tide in the affairs of every people when 
the moment strikes for political action. Such was the moment in the history of the United States of 
America, when the Founding Fathers saw beyond the petty wranglings of the separate states and 
created a Union. This is our chance. We must act now. Tomorrow may be too late, and the 
opportunity will have passed, and with it the hope of Africa's survival.

Critics of African unity often refer to the wide differences in culture, language and ideas in 
various parts of Africa. This is true, but the essential fact remains that we are all Africans and have 
a common interest in the independence of Africa. The difficulties presented by questions of 
language, culture and different political systems are not insurmountable. If the need for political union 
is agreed by us all, then the will to create it is born; and where there's a will, there's a way. 

The present leaders of Africa have already shown a remarkable willingness to consult and 
seek advice among themselves. Africans have, indeed, begun to think continentally. They realise 
that they have much in common, both in their history, in their present problems and in their 
future hopes. To suggest that the time is not yet ripe for considering a political union of Africa is to 
evade the facts and ignore realities in Africa today. 

The greatest contribution that Africa can make to the peace of the world is to avoid all the 
dangers inherent in disunity, by creating a political union which will also, by its success, stand as an 
An example of a divided world. A Union of African states will project more effectively the African 
personality. It will command respect from a world that has regard only for size and influence. The 
scant attention paid to African opposition to the French atomic tests in the Sahara, and the 
ignominious spectacle of the U.N. in the Congo quibbling about constitutional niceties while the 

The Republic was tottering into anarchy, are evidenced by the callous disregard for African Independence 
by the Great Powers. 
We have to prove that greatness is not to be measured in stockpiles of atom bombs. I believe 
strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human 
lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal 
government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength, but as a 
Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of 
all mankind.

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