Ylva,

Thank you for posting Tom Kamara's article on the "One Africa" panacea.  The
"One Africa" dreamland, as he aptly calls it , will remain a distant dream
until African economies develop individually and sufficiently enough, with
an intermediate goal of economic, political and cultural convergence at the
(sub)regional level before moving towards continental convergence.
Presently, our peoples are out of sinc, neither are our economic policies
nor our values as they relate to human/individual rights, good governance
etc.  I agree entirely with the author that Africans must concentrate on
"creating economic opportunities in their individual
countries,...establishing stable Governments around human rights and
transparency as the principal guarantors of self-respect and progress." To
us African, I say, first things first.

Sidi Sanneh
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