Thread by @UnathiAfrika

A REINTRODUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (THE USSA), A POTENTIAL SUPERPOWER IN AFRICA

I am fully aware of the United States' Wolfowitz Doctrine which guides US political and military elites to actively seek to prevent the rise of any other global superpower and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Just imagine a Southern Africa now recreated into the United States of Southern Africa, now like this. More powerful, more prosperous. All these spaza shops of countries we currently running are just useless in Geopolitics & International Relations and just keep us weak and poor.

I still ask today: why are we keeping European borders and these tiny, unviable countries? How do we control our resources when we are so fragmented and divided? How do tiny countries of 3 or 5 or 10 or even 50 million negotiate anything successful against others?

I understand the calls for a United States of Africa. In a sense, at economics level that may be achieved. But we also need to be realistic about the massive diversity and enormous size of Africa (at 30 million square kilometers, it is the world's largest continent).

I still believe we can make it as 5 large Federations made up of States or Provinces. This will enable us to control our resources as we will have consistent policies. For example, we can demand payment for our resources in our own currency, driving up the value of our currency.

In fact, by following this route, we will be able to reunited African Nations (so-called Tribes) divided by European-created borders. We will be able to ensure that African Nations, Clans and Families are reunited.

An Africa collapsed into just 5 Federations will mean that we remove delays at borders, have more consistent highways and highspeed rail, resulting in faster and better trade and higher standards of living. We will not need to consult Washington or London or Brussels or Beijing.

But going back to resources, if we learned anything from Russia, it is that if you are a vast country and can have consistent policies, no sanctions can hurt you significantly. Instead you can demand payment for your resources in your country's currency.

To this day, Africa remains independent only on paper. We still even identify ourselves by our colonisers' languages: Anglophone Africa, Lusophone Africa, Francophone Africa. There is a danger we will be even Sinophone (China). We don't even own ourselves, it seems.

For those not familiar with the idea of Federalism: That means instead of these current countries, African Nations: Zulu, Kalanga, Luo, Kikuyu, Igbo, Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Tonga, Herero, etc, will each have its own STATE/PROVINCE.

Federalism will mean that there is reduced risk of ethnic conflicts as the majority-minority relationships created in these countries created by Europeans will be gone as each African Nation has its own State/Province where it exercises full Self-Government & Self-Determination.

The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland used to be made up of the present countries of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. The USSA may well be built on this, with the Federal Capital perhaps somewhere in Victorial Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya)

And of course, when you read books and documents written before the establishment of the "Boer South African Republic" and Union of South Africa in 1910 or the South African Republic, the whole region from the Cape to the Zambezi was generally referred to as South Africa.

In case you wonder how Federalism works, imperfect as it is, it generally, particularly in ethnically diverse countries, made up of States or Provinces around the diverse Nations. Examples are Switzerland, India, Ethiopia, Canada, etc.

Now the world's most populous country at about 1.4 Billion (just above China's 1.3 Billion), India is organised into various states that generally run along ethnic boundaries or frontiers rather. That is not to say there are no challenges, but, as political science scholars point… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

That, ladies and gentlemen, is my vision for Africa. I believe that Africa with just 5 Federations is a more likely and practical idea than a United States of Africa.

This also partly owes to the large blocks of related people who speak similar languages and generally practice… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I am fully aware that this map is too simplistic and inaccurate in many respects. But I will use it nonetheless to drive my point: Turning Africa into 5 Federations with each Ethnolinguistic Group (Nation) having its own Province/State will enable each one to use its own language… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

And if you are still unconvinced, have you ever wondered why from time to time 54 African Heads of State are summoned to Beijing, Brussels (EU), London (UK), Tokyo (Japan), Doha (UAE), Sochi (Russia), Paris (France), Washington DC,etc?

54 Heads of state, tails between their… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

How will Africa benefit from its resources when Africans are always #StandingWithIsrael, #StandingWithUkraine, #StandingWithRussia, #StandingWithUSA, #StandingWithUK, etc?

Oh God, what a fucking embarrassment to well-meaning and informed Africans. Puppet leaders always summoned to America, Europe, Asia, just to meet one head of state.

Africa needs new leaders and doesn't have to consult Washington DC, London, Brussels, Beijing, Tokyo or Moscow on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Some are of the opinion that Africa shouldn't be organised according to "tribes" (by which they mean Nations). However, this is the most persistent of all of humanity's characteristics. Trying to work against it just leads to one outcome: ethnic conflict and Genocide.

And did… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

As if European Tribalism wasn't enough to the point that they had to generally draw up their countries according to tribal territories, even their churches became tribal enclaves.

Swedish (Sweden), Anglican (England), Greek Orthodox (Greece), Dutch Reformed (Netherlands),… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

In fact, so visceral was European Tribalism that they fought two major wars in recent times (The European Tribal Wars I and II, falsely called World Wars). Even as late as the 1990s they were back to their ways again in Yugoslavia. They just aren't able to manage diversity,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Back to currencies:

While we busy fighting each other over colonial borders and wondering who is a more civilized African than the other, other continents are getting things done.

edition.cnn.com/2023/05/30/ame…

Europe already has the Euro. North America is basically dominated by the US Dollar. Latin America is seeking a common currency. Asia agrees to trade in local currencies. Meanwhile, we are stuck with 33 useless currencies!

business-standard.com/article/financ…

In one of the biggest insults, to this day, Africa is the only continent referred to using the languages of Europe: Anglophone (English), Francophone (French) and Lusophone (Portuguese).

As a first step toward the widespread education of Africans, we need to kick out these… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

If you ever wonder how weak and useless a disunited Africa is, just check the UN General Assembly in session. When African leaders address the UNGA vs. when the PM of tiny Israel address the UNGA. But leaders of 5 African Federations of some 500 million people each will force the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

BTW, the ideas presented here aren't new. They have been proposed and pursued before. As I have said before, while here in Southern Africa we debate and fight over "our whites" and "their whites" (it's so stupid), in East Africa they are way ahead towards the establishment of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I don't wanna laugh coz this is serious business, but this is crazy. The only way to rescue West Africa from being French puppets (not all of them are) is to unite into a large West African Federation instead of these many spaza shops pretending to be countries.

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH AFRICA? IT IS JUST A PROBLEM WITH THE METHOD OF SELECTION OF LEADERSHIP!

In one of his works, Nigerian prolific writer Chinua Achebe avers that the problem with Nigeria (which may well have been the problem with Africa), is squarely a problem of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Like @ProfPLOLumumba , Professor Brian Kagoro (@TamukaKagoro77 ) makes the case against the idea that somehow Africans must forget the most grotesque of crimes ever committed against any people, yet everyday we are inundated with the need to never forget the Jewish Holocaust. How… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

And by the way, another important reason why Africa needs to unite into just 5 Federations. At 500 million each Federation, Africa will have reason enough to demand and get 5 permanent seats on the UN Security Council, just like India is now agitating for the same.

We can't… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

And by the way, a divided Africa will always remain dinner at the dinner table of other civilizations. We will always remain a hunting ground for resources while we wallow in poverty. Tiny African countries have no means whatsover to push back against neocolonial interests.

This divided Africa will not only remain the dinner at the dinner table of civilizations. Instead, it will remain not only a dumping ground for basic commodities such as cheap electrical goods and second-hand clothes, but a vast market for western defence contractors who keep… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Meanwhile, there are those who are saying well, it's too late to make any changes. It is all now what it is. Let's abide by the 1963 borders and respect the principle of "inviolability of borders".

(Wait a minute, we now have new countries such as South Sudan, so that principle… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I love what @OndiroOganga is doing here. We need more young people to be informed and stand up for Africa and use modern technology to reach out to other young people.

Some wonder how the neocolonialists are still fncking up Africa.

They use the comprador bourgeoisie who… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Speaking of the comprador bourgeoisie, Professor Milton Allimadi (@allimadi) makes the case that some of our African leaders are basically "European governors in African skin". They are serving the interests of their colonial masters.

These are the same people that, when they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…