Since Muammar Gadhafi delivered his speech in Algiers during the OAU Summit stating that Africans must go back to the proposition of a United States of Africa, there has been a fervor.  If there was ever a time in the history of the struggle on the African continent to call for this unity of Africa, that time is now. 

For nearly the last three years, Brother Gadhafi has been pouring his wealth, money and time into a United States of Africa.  We all know that the idea is not a new idea.  It was Kwame Nkrumah, the former president of Ghana, who foresaw this as the only future for the African continent. He could see that Africa would become the third largest nation in the world behind India and China. 

Africa has a population of over 800 million people.  Africa with its strategic national resources which includes oil, gas, diamonds, gold, magnesium, chromium, platinum, silver and other minerals would become a leader in the world.  The western powers, both Europe and America, never desired to see Africa as one nation or united. 

 Now, with the coming of the OAU Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, there is the possibility of the emergence of the United States of Africa.  It will start, God willing, after July 12, 2001 as an African Union moving towards a United States of Africa. 

The only ones who would oppose this would be those who do not have the well being of Africa at heart.  The only ones who would fight it would be those weak, controlled African leaders who would like to hold on to their little trappings of power or who are encouraged by the West to oppose this idea.  Of the 53 nations in Africa, there has already been a vote by 43 of them to go along with this proposition. 

Africans in the Diaspora must support this proposition.  Africans in the Diaspora who have struggled in their arena to talk about the United States of Africa should say to Brother Gadhafi that we are grateful for your attempt, drive and tenacity of will to see this through. 

You can write to the Leader of the Libyan Revolution and voice your sentiment and support, which I think would be encouraging for Brother Gadhafi in order to continue against the tremendous opposition that he is facing. 

Some of the opposition is the fact that he is an Arab and that he should not be the leader in the proposition.  There is the fact that the press has reported problems between the African workers there and the Libyan people; there is the fact that the Libyan people (some segments of the Libyan Opposition) are saying that Gadhafi is wasting the wealth of Libya pushing this idea of the United States of Africa. 

There is the fact that he is a Muslim and there are segments or quarters on the African continent that have differences with the Muslim community, especially Arab Muslims.  If we know that the overall good that our brother is hoping for to bring Africa together to survive, then we must use something in our faith tradition. 

We must weigh whether your good outweighs those things that are not so good.  What Brother Gadhafi has been championing for the last three years has the side of more good than those things that may not be so good. 

So you may write and I would encourage all of those who have been in this struggle for a unified Africa for years to write him at Brother Muammar Gadhafi, Leader of the Libyan Revolution, Leadership Office, Tripoli, Libya, North Africa.