The World Pan-Africanism Council (WPC) has called on African leaders to treat Africans in the diaspora as the sixth sub-region of the continent to foster an accelerated unifying process.
        
In a recommendation to the Heads of States and Governments at the Ninth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Accra, Professor Honorat Aguessey, President of the WPC said this was necessary to tap their expertise for the economic and cultural development of Africa.
     
He was speaking at a briefing on the sidelines of the AU Summit to relay to the Heads of States and Governments, recommendations adopted at the end of a Pan-Africanism Conference in Ouidah, Benin, in April this year for consideration as the part of the grand debate on  African Union government.
     
Among other recommendations made by the WPC were the adoption of Swahili as the official language for the continent, the creation of a single continental currency, the creation of a Pan-African airline company, and revision of Africa’s development strategy to reflect African values.
     
They also recommended the setting up of an African Central Bank and an African Monetary Fund, without which, Prof Aguessey said: “Africa’s independence is bound to remain an utopia.”
      
Prof Aguessey stressed the need for African leaders to consider Pan-Africanism as the surest way for the realisation of the much debated African Union Government.

By ISD Reporter

Source: GNA
Posted: 03/07/07

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