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The United States of Africa is a name sometimes given to one version of the possible future unification of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 as a national and sovereign federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
 of states similar in formation to the United States of America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, mirroring the idea of the United States of Europe.






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The United States of Africa is a name sometimes given to one version of the possible future unification of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 as a national and sovereign federation
Federation

A federation is a Political union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the state is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a Unilateralism decision of the central government....
 of states similar in formation to the United States of America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, mirroring the idea of the United States of Europe. The idea has recently been advanced by Libya
Libya

Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa. Bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
n leader, and newly elected chairman of the African Union
African Union

The African Union is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 53 African states. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity ....
, Muammar al-Gaddafi
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi#Name also known as Colonel Gaddafi has been the de facto leader of Libya since a 1969 coup....
, at a 2000 summit in Lomé
Lomé

Lom?, estimated population of 737,751, is the Capital and largest city of Togo. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lom? is the country's administrative and industrial centre and its chief port....
, Togo
Togo

Togo is a narrow country in West Africa bordering Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lom? is located....
 (and again in June 2007 and February 2009), and by Alpha Oumar Konare
Alpha Oumar Konaré

Alpha Oumar Konar? was the President of Mali for two five-year terms , and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008....
, chairperson of the African Commission
African Commission

The Commission of the African Union acts as the executive/administrative branch or secretariat of the AU . It consists of a number of Commissioners dealing with different areas of policy....
, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Africa Day
Africa Day

Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity , which was in July 2002 succeeded by the present African Union, while amalgamating with the African Economic Community , but kept the date and name of Africa Day....
, on May 25, 2006.

The phrase "United States of Africa", was mentioned first by Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., Order of National Hero , was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League ....
 in his poem 'Hail, United States of Africa' in 1924. Garvey's ideas deeply influenced the birth of the Pan-Africanist movement which culminated in 1945 with the Fifth Pan African Congress
Pan African Congress

Pan African Congress can refer to:* Pan-African Congress, a series of five meetings held between 1919 and 1945* Pan Africanist Congress, the South African political party...
 in Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, attended by W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois

'William Edward Burghardt Du Bois' was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanism, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana....
, Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba

Patrice ?mery Lumumba was an African anti-colonial leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped to win its independence from Belgium in June 1960....
, George Padmore
George Padmore

George Padmore , born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidad and Tobago who became a leading Pan-Africanism....
, Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta served as the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya. He is considered the Father of the Nation of the Kenyan nation....
 and Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah , was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast , from 1952 to 1966....
. Later, Nkrumah and Haile Selassie (among many others) took the idea forward to form the Organisation of African Unity
Organisation of African Unity

The Organisation of African Unity or Organisation de l'Unit? Africaine was established on 25 May 1963. It was disbanded on 9 July 2002 by its last Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, South African President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, and replaced by the African Union ....
, the forerunner of today's African Union
African Union

The African Union is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 53 African states. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity ....
.

At the June 2007 meeting of the African Union, discussions centred upon Gaddafi's idea of a federation of African states.

In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union
African Union

The African Union is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 53 African states. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity ....
 in Ethiopia
Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
, Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: "I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa." The BBC reported that Gaddafi had proposed "a single African military force, a single currency and a single passport for Africans to move freely around the continent". Other African leaders stated they would study the proposal's implications, and rediscuss it in May 2009.

See also

  • African Union
    African Union

    The African Union is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 53 African states. Established on 9 July 2002, the AU was formed as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity ....
  • Pan-Africanism
    Pan-Africanism

    Pan-Africanism is a sociopolitical world view, and philosophy, as well as a movement, which seeks to unify both native Africans and those of the African diaspora, as part of a "global African community".Pan-Africanism calls for a politically united Africa....
  • United States of Latin Africa
    United States of Latin Africa

    The United States of Latin Africa was the proposed union of Romance language-speaking African countries envisioned by Barth?l?my Boganda. Boganda first called for it in May 1957....
  • United States of Africa in Star Trek
    Earth governments (Star Trek)

    In the fictional Star Trek universe, several political organisations take power over part or all of Earth in fiction. Most of these Earth governments are only mentioned in passing once or twice, and little is known of their history, geography, and politics, or of their rise and fall....
     - In the fictional Star Trek
    Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
     universe the "United States of Africa" exists as a nation of the United Earth government, within the Federation
    United Federation of Planets

    The United Federation of Planets is a fictional interplanetary federal republic depicted in the Star Trek television series and motion pictures....
    .
  • Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
    Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

    The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League is an international self-help organization founded by Marcus Garvey....


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