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and India have managed to
use their populations and their
“Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The technological skills to penetrate

notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there every global sector and have
to be a common language, a common territory and common become the major faces of
culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of these sectors. Then the question
scientific definition of objective reality… The community became “But why is that?”

of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it
is the economy which holds together the people living in a We pondered the topic and
territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise then concluded that even
themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the though China and India have

entire African continent” – Kwame Nkrumah
the same population as Africa,
they are not divided into fifty-
s we prepared for this of the mobile providers has an five nations bearing fifty-five

Aissue of the magazine, advert running at this AFCON different ideologies as we have
somewhere at the back of my that talks about the idea of in Africa. In other words, one of
mind, the name Côte d’Ivoire unity and connectedness of all the major problems with Africa
kept popping up. But I had not Africans. Obviously, they are is her disunity and lack of a

a single thing to write about simply making the push for clear and single purpose.
Côte d’Ivoire. It just was not their service, but that appears to
connecting, but the thought be the reason why Côte d’Ivoire The truth is that a disunited
about Côte d’Ivoire just was brought to my attention Africa is a disoriented and

wouldn’t leave. After a while, I with such intensity. The unity ineffective Africa and this we
started seeing various Facebook and connectedness of purpose have seen for many decades
posts talking about the AFCON of all Africans and how critical now.
Football tournament going it is for our next push towards

on in Ivory Coast. It was then TRUE independence. When you look at the political
I started paying attention to and economic landscape
the promptings in my mind About ten days before this issue globally, every government of
regarding writing about Côte was published, and while the the world seems to have a plan

d’Ivoire. By the way, I am not a AFCON was still going on, for Africa which they happily
fan of football, just so you don’t my family and I had gone out share at conferences held at
think this is about football. for a walk in the neighborhood. five-star hotels. But have you
As we walked, my wife and I asked yourself what is Africa’s

One thing about football, across started talking about India and plan for Africa and the world? It
the world, and in Africa is China and how both countries does not exist in reality, maybe
that it brings people together have similar populations to the on paper. And what this means
around a common activity, continent of Africa. I think we is that you cannot have an

conversation, and passion. One were talking about how China
African unity without having an

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