Africa: The biological timer is not yet ripe…

By African Bulletin on May 31, 2011

If the AU has appealed to the persistence of crises and conflicts on the continent that are related to the lack of a significant improvement

in the political and economic governance that are creating frustration and discontent among the population and leading to riots and revolutions. And if the AU had decided, in the summit of January 2010, in Addis Ababa, to proceed to the systematic exclusion of government issued from military coups and prevent perpetrators from being candidates in elections. And if today the AU – former AUO, had projected that, 30 years later, Africa would be even more divided and more economically dependent on the West. And if the AU had feared that small groups of fanatics and mercenaries will take place, after the wars and guerrillas campaigns of the mid-1970s  that paved the way, through violent methods, to profound and fundamental changes in societies’ dominant values and politico-economic structures that tore the continent. And if the African Union has considered its Charismatic leaders and elders’ wise recommendations, the continent would have been today more integrated economically, because it would have had ample time to coordinate its geopolitical interests and mostly smooth the countries’ differences towards a common strategy. A strategy based on complementarity, like in the Asian countries that have summed their advantages, but also have separately made the sacrifice that was needed. Then it would become politically correct to the African Union representative in Central Africa, to draw out lessons from popular uprisings in North Africa, as a warning to consolidate democracy and good governance. Indeed, it is this drastic transformations of society that lack in sub-Saharan Africa, and the few local examples of democratization and governance, within the continent do not cause yet relevant spill-over, because the African  biological timer is not yet ripe…