An Op-ed in the Justice Africa blog takes on the issue of creating a United States of Africa, which will be discussed in the forthcoming summit of the African Union in Accra, Ghana.

The agenda has pitched leaders against leaders and different sectors of our informed and ill-informed publics against one another. But basically there are two broad positions- those who want a united government and those who aim to have union of states later; with a third position essentially calling for a Federal Government. None disagree about the need for Africa to unite. So if there is no disagreement about the goal what is the debate about?

Calling it a Grand Debate about USA is both a misnomer and also unhelpful characterization which has diverted people’s attention from the actual concrete proposal on the table and invited acrimonious ‘debates’ about form instead of content.

Read full article.

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