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Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish philosopher said “People will not look forward to prosperity who never look backward toward their ancestry." Due to the multiple natures of the African States, their competing claims at once constitute national riches and a hazard to national survival. Tribal confrontations, in the words of Ali Mazariu
"Sometimes bring out the tensions between the blessing of cultural diversity in Africa and the cause of deep ethnic cleavage". Traditionalism has also known the pains of both submissive and aggressive dependence.
What we need is a process of fusing the multiplicity of subcultures domestically into larger complexes of national and regional cultures. An African is more conscious of is tribe than his state, much less his country. Permit to use this illustration; an Ibo man in Delta State of Nigeria puts his fellow Ibo man interest before an Urobo man of the same state. A Hulsi man in Burundi sees himself as totally different from Tutsi because of the appellation called tribe. There must be adequate cultural integration among African States. This will be new direction fro Black common wealth, bangada begin to borrow culturally from Acholic and Langi, the Kiknuyu to borrow from the Luo, the Hausa from the Ibo, perhaps one day the Zanzibars from South Africa will borrow culturally across thousands of miles from the Yoruba in West Africa only a relatively positive approach to this could move the continent towards genuine self discovery.
If these are not considered and taken care of, any attempt at forming an organisation that will only drift apart the existing gap among African States. Organisations like African union (AU) will forever be a mirage if there is a unity of purpose, even within nation we think as nation state, nation tribe and people, who are into integration and not unity. The overall precursor of African unity is nothing but an entrenched good-governance in all African State. A system that makes life better in the African State is most desirable. These will stop illegal migration from one African State to another where they are treated as though they are not fellow Africans. Not until a Libyan sees a Nigerian as a brother and a Somali sees a Liberian, all these hues and cry about NEPAD and AU will be forever a ruse. This is the greatest challenge to growth and prosperity of African nation.
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