DO WE NEED A SUMMIT TO DISCUSS THE PLIGHT OF AN AFRICAN CHILD AND ITS MOTHER?
By Ayoub mzee-London
I have just returned from Kampala to attend the 2010 summit of the African Heads of state and government otherwise called African Union. It is the latest in the many summits by African leaders that go back to the founding of the organisation of the African Unity(OAU)
The drive that got into me, just like any other delegate to go to East Africa to make something out of Africa can be traced back to the 1920s and the early efforts by great leaders like Marcus Garvey , Lumumba , etc with their demands that Africans and descendants of Africa dispersed world wide reclaim their roots “Africa for Africans” was the rallying call.
However , no sooner had the 1960 decade came than it quickly became clear that this is going to be a disastrous beginning for Africa up to date. The rest is history.