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Unathi Afrika Profile picture
@UnathiAfrika
Jun 3, 2023 • 53 tweets • 23 min read • Read on X
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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… Image
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. Image
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? Image
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). Image
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. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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. Image
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) Image
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. Image
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. Image
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… Image
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… Image
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… Image
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… Image
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… ImageImageImageImage
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… Image
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… Image
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… Image
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… Image
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… ImageImage
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… Image
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. Image
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… Image
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. Image
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…

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Jun 16, 2023
A REORGANISATION OF AFRICA INTO 5 LARGE FEDERATIONS TO ENSURE THE UNITY, POWER AND PROSPERITY OF AFRICA

I am fully aware of the doctrine of the “inviolability of colonial borders” resolution taken by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1964 in Cairo in which African states pledged to respect and retain the existing colonial borders.

However, as had been demonstrated at the Addis Ababa Conference earlier, those Pan Africanists who believed in the unity, power, and prosperity of Africa thought it was wise to unite Africa. It is in the tradition of these Pan Africanists that I make this submission.

So much has happened since 1964, and not only have that resolution been violated with the establishment of the South Sudan, but the respect for colonial borders has done nothing by way of ensuring the peace and stability of Africa.

Instead, the colonial borders have only brought Civil Wars, Genocides, and ultimately, weak, and unviable African states that cannot even take care of their people.

I shall not even mention the many puppet leaders that the colonialists imposed on these states after they assassinated, overthrew in coups, or jailed Pan African leaders such as

The Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, Patrice Emery Lumumba, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Modibbo Keita, Haile Selassie, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Steve Bantu Biko, Dr. Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, etc;

And replaced them with their puppets like Mobutu Sese Seko, Robert Mugabe, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Idi Amin, Blaise Compaoré, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, etc.

And these puppets not only went only to rule for 20 to 40 years each and nearly permanently decapitated the Pan African agenda, but they were corrupt, incompetent, and

Committed enormous crimes against humanity, genocides, and industrial scale looting from their countries; and yet, for as long as they saved their masters in Europe and America, they remained in power.

However, Africa can no longer afford to live in the shadows of these puppets. A post-colonial Africa must now define its course for the sake of its Sons and Daughters and revisit the Pan African Agenda and

Actively reorganise itself and do away with the Cairo Resolution and the Berlin Conference borders. For, without this, Africa will not realise the dream of its children for Peace and Prosperity until it is united.

While I am aware of the proposal for a United States of Africa as originally proposed by the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah and currently in the minds of many, I however, believe that, at 30 million square kilometres and its enormous diversity, Africa can be reorganised into 5 large Federations.

These would be, for example, The United States of Southern Africa (The USSA), the East African Federation (EAF), the West African Federation (WAF), the North African Federation (NAF), and the Central African Federation (CAF).

This would create 5 massive countries with populations and vast markets of on average, 300 million to 500 million each by 2040.

This would mean larger markets and intra-African trade, ability to control our natural resources, faster goods and people transit, a larger workforce, more consistent policies governing our Federations,

Ability to enter meaningful bilateral and multilateral relationships with other global powers (have you ever imagined how stupid it is for Lesotho to enter into a bilateral relationship with China or Eswatini with the USA?)

Even more interestingly, by recreating Africa into these 5 Federations similar to Switzerland or India or Canada which allow for the Self-Government and Self-Determination of each of our Nations (so-called tribes), each with its own State/Province within a larger Federation,

Ethnic conflicts occasioned by the majority-minority relationships created by the colonial borders will either be reduced or completely eliminated.

Even more, African Families, Clans and Nations that were broke up by the randomly drawn European borders will be reunited, and people will be able to their enjoy language and culture without one Nation seeking to dominate another as one or related Nations have their own State.

For example: the 4.4 million Vatsonga of Mozambique will be reunited with the 3.3 million Vatsonga of South Africa; the 2 million Batswana of Botswana will be reunited with their 5 million compatriots in South Africa,

The Emaswati in SA and Eswatini, the Venda in SA and Zimbabwe, the Tonga in Zambia and Zimbabwe, etc., will all be reunited and each one of them have their own State or Province.

We will be able to come up with and implement consistent policies governing everything from trade to agriculture to minerals to forests and demand payment for our resources in our own currencies, in the process, driving up demand for and value of our currencies and their buying power.

Instead of Africa having 33 currencies, many of which are useless beyond one border, we will have only 5 currencies, which we will use to trade with one another and other countries outside Africa. Instead of 54 central banks, we will have just 5 Federal Reserve Banks.

Instead of 54 telephone codes, we will have only 5 telephone codes and ensure connectivity across Africa, instead of this current mess that you drive just 3 hours in some cases and there is no more connectivity.

Imagine Africa with its own 5 profitable airlines and high-speed rail networks connecting Africa, ensuring faster trade, good and people transit and skills sharing.

Imagine Africa reorganised into 5 Federations with better systems of choosing leaders that result in the best of the best among us taking up governmental leadership positions

In other words, create our own meritocratic system of selecting leaders instead of this so-called democracy from the West, which is nothing more than a rent seeking mechanism that allows the west to impose its puppets on us!

(And have you ever wondered why the only qualification required for people that are supposed to be in charge of the most important institution in a country, the Government,

Are nothing more than being 18 years older, a citizen, and a registered voter, and yet every other job requires a Diploma or Degree and certain work experience?)

An Africa reorganised into 5 large Federations will be able to implement tough protectionist policies to protect our industries: everything from Agriculture to Textiles to Mines to Manufacturing. We will be able to develop our own indigenous industries.

We will have consistent Education policies, develop our own African languages to become Languages of Instruction from ECD to University and ensure the widespread education of African, and have just 5 Education Regulatory and Examination Bodies.

So much can be said, so many advantages can be cited. What remains is: to hold its fort as an equal among civilizations, Africa needs to throw away colonial borders;

Leverage its cultural and linguistic similarities in regions and reorganize itself into just 5 large Federations; control its natural resources and ensure manufacturing and value addition happens here in Africa to create jobs for Africans;

Have no more than 5 currencies; have only 5 telephone codes to ensure connectivity across Africa without all these 54 telephone codes; develop African languages into Languages of Education, Science and Technology; reunite African Families, Clans and Nations and eliminate ethnic conflicts;

And above all, ensure a meritocratic system of choosing leaders and the severe punishment of the corrupt and swift removal of the incompetent! Africa has no shortage of leaders, it has a faulty system of selecting leaders.

Many professional executives in the private sector, academia, civil society, and community organisations can run Africa efficiently and effectively, with great courage, patriotism and integrity.

Perhaps it is time for Africa to do away with political parties and replace them with a combination of community organisations and a meritocratic system that ensures only the qualified and competent take up leadership positions and all the riff-raff is eliminated from government!Image
Africa has all the resources that the world needs. Africa can and must be self-sufficient. Africa must disabuse herself from the so-called aid and instead seek technology transfer, fair markets and value for her resources and manufacturing here in Africa. Image
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May 13, 2023
ON THE UNITED STATES OF SOUTH AFRICA (THE USSA)?

Did you know that the name South Africa once included all the countries that now constitute South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, Lesotho and Namibia?

Think about it: what if we went back to this and built… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Just imagine a Southern Africa now recreated into the United States of South Africa (or Southern Africa if you will), now like this. More powerful, more prosperous. All these spaza shops called countrieswere are currently running are just useless in Geopolitics and International… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
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?
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Mar 19, 2023
A THREAD 🧵 ON THE GUKURAHUNDI GENOCIDE IN MATEBELELAND

In case you wonder why there is animosity between the Shona one the one side and the Matebele (Ndebele, Kalanga, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Xhosa, and Venda) on the other side, this thread is for you. I present just raw footage… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Knowingly or not, Shona people immediately sprung into action supporting the Gukurahundi Genocide in Matebeleland, chanting forward with the 5th Brigade, even as thousands were being butchered in Matebeleland. They would called for the arrest, hanging and death of Dr. Joshua… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The 5th Brigade would be celebrated across the Mashobaland Provinces as it wreaked havoc in Matebeleland. Homes burned, entire villages burned down and people killed, people burried alive, logs driven into women's genitalia, children's heads splattered on rocks, etc.
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