welcome to candid africa truthful and unapologetic
so when the oau met in 2013 they asked the question what happened to the pan-african spirit
and when therefore they met in sirte in libya under the tutelage at that time of muhammad
it was resolved in 1999 that the oau be renamed and be referred to as the african
union and it was relaunched launched as you know in dublin south africa in the year 2000
but one of the most important things on the in the 20th 2013 was the speech of the then
chairman of the way you can cause zuma here in addis ababa in ethiopia and i want you to
read that letter which i'll paraphrase in which she writes an imaginary letter to carmen kuruma
he tells and apologizes to kwame telling kwame we apologize to you because we did not listen to you
we are weak because we did not listen to you we are divided into 54
depending on whether the moroccans agree that saharawi is a country
nobody cares about us
and brothers and sisters if you want to know how weak we are and we are weak
look at how we are
treated last month
the world met in new york
the general assembly
when african heads of states and government are speaking the whole is empty
nobody bothers because they are saying nothing and even if they are saying
something it is something that can be ignored compare when an african head of
state and government is speaking and when the prime minister of little israel is speaking
they will listen because we are weak and disunited
so we have a weak continent because the spirit of pan-africanism disappeared
so the question that we can ask what is the state of pan-africanism as we speak today
the african union which is weak
says the right things and does the wrong things nine out of ten times
and what are the critical areas in which we are weak we are weak politically
because nobody listens to us
on the third
day of march 1900 on the sixth day of march 1997.
malimu julius kambarage of tanzania speaking in acura ghana on the occasion of the 40th 40th
anniversary of the independence of ghana said the speech is entitled we unite or we perish
and malimu says
i want to apologize to kamen kuruma
those of us who believed in gradualism were wrong kuruma was right but nukuruma
also did not appreciate the level of suspicion that existed amongst the leaders at that time
our generation he says fought for the liberation of africa
it is the duty of the new generation to carry the church forward he says in his plea he says
that i do not believe that the tribe can be the basis of mobilization in africa and he said that
as i travel along across the world people do not care about our tanzanian-ness or our ghanaian-ness
or our kenyanness or our ethiopian-ness in their eyes we are all africans and perhaps
that is what we should use at the building block in order to talk about african unity
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