Pan-Africanism is the Voice of African Sovereignty
Dr. P. Kagwanja, Africa Policy Institute | May 7, 2008
African leaders are less reluctant to grant China access to their markets and resources because its aid is not conditional on good governance, democracy, or human rights. ++ The West and the UN’s attempts to tackle conflict, disease, and hunger are perceived as dictatorial re-colonization strategies aiming at challenging the Chinese. ++ Resistance to the US Africa Command has led to calls for African unity and continental sovereignty. ++ The African Union must now “bridge rhetoric and reality and counter narrow ethnic divisions.”
