All people of Afrikan descent all over the world unite!
All the 55 states of Afrika, and the Afrikan States in the Carribean unite!!
All the Ethnic groups and tribes of Afrika unite!!!
ALL THE LEADERS AND PEOPLE OF AFRIKA UNITE!!!

We have to understand Afrikan unity and its dimensions so as to get a full hold of it.

Dimensions of Afrikan unity are those different aspects of Afrikan existence where we must unite.

There are the 4 dimensions (levels) at which Afrikans must unite and those 4 dimensions must be handled sometimes separately, sometimes jointly but with deep understanding that they are not exactly the same and that they will come at different paces and cost.

The four dimensions of Afrikan unity are: Global Afrikan Unity, Continental Unity, Ethnic Unity and Unity between Afrikan Leaders and people.

Those who know the gains of Afrikan unity know we cannot do without Afrikan unity, and those who have the understanding realuse that there is no reason why Afrika should not unite because all impediments to Afrikan unity are artificial and can be fixed by sufficient understanding and wisdom.

In our unity lies the rebuilding of Afrika and the return of the glory of all Afrikans worldwide.

Meaning Of Afrikan Unity

Afrikan Unity broadly defined is Afrikans working together toward Afrikan Progress;
It means Afrikans becoming One: Afrikans working together as one to progress.

Now let us dissect the 4 dimensions of AFRIKAN UNITY one after the other:

1. GLOBAL AFRIKAN UNITY:

Global Afrikan Unity is the unity of all people of Afrikan descent:
It is the unity of all Afrikan People all over the world.
It is the global cooperation of all people of Afrikan descent and it was this dimension of unity that was initiated by Pan-Afrikanism.

It was the global unity of all Afrikans that gave rise to great African stars like Edward Blyden, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Ivan Sertima, Henrik Clarke and a host of other Pan-Afrikan leaders and scholars worthy of great honor.

Global Afrikan Unity touches the plight of all Afrikans all over the world while protecting and defending Afrika as the homeland of all Afrikans and the origin of civilization.

We must take the global unity of all Afrikans to greater heights by continuing in the teachings of  our early Pan-Afrikan leaders especially Marcus Garvey who achieved so much by uniting all Afrikans under one umbrella: the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)/ Afrikan Communities League and working towards the progress of all Afrikans worldwide with the slogan: "One God, One Aim, One Destiny".

At his peak he had more than 4 million active Afrikans in his network and had many businesses communally owned by Afrikans employing Afrikans eg the Black Star Line. He also popularised the Afrikan colours Red Green Black RBG which was also found in Kemet and the black star which is today found in the flag of Ghana.

We Afrikans must today and forever  unite globally under one umbrella; we must cooperate socially, politically, spiritually and economically;
we must buy and sell within ourselves to enrich ourselves;
we must educate, train, enhance and equip ourselves to be the best; we must defend and protect the interests of all Afrikans WITHOUT BORDER;
we must fund ourselves, help ourselves, love ourselves in everyway we can;
We must make sure that any attack on any Afrikan anywhere in the world will get the response from all Afrikans anywhere in the world;
we must all work together worldwide to rebuild Mother Afrika which is our root and where lies our pride;
And together we must reclaim all our lost heritage and legacies: the world.

The strongest impediments to Global Afrikan unity are the colonial nationalities given to us by the imperialists: Ghanaian, Nigerian etc whereas we all are AFRIKANS
The second impediment is religious fanaticism: so many times we respond more to our religious brothers who do not care about us or who even suffer us while neglecting our own who would be there for us in time of needs:
Afrikan muslims care more about Arabs who enslaved them for a thousand years than for their fellow Afrikans while Afrikan christians are concerned with European Christians that sold us in millions than fellow Afrikans who desperately are in need of help.
We must turn from that part and put Afrikans first all round, that is Global Afrikan Unity that is Wisdom and that is Progress!!!

2. THE CONTINENTAL UNITY OF AFRIKA:

The second dimension in which Afrika must unite is Continentally:
The Continental union of Afrika is the unification of all the whole of Afrika including the Afrikan countries abroad (Jamaica, Haiti) etc into One Nation, One Country, One Super State: "The United Continent of Afrika" or "The United Afrika" or "The United States of Afrika" that is One Country.

This dimension of Afrikan Unity was the dimension that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Cheik Anta Diop, Muma Gaddafi etc emphasized the most while also in championing the Global unity of Afrika.

The Continental Unity of Afrika is a very Powerful union which when gotten will give Afrika:

ONE POWERFUL CURRENCY:
Instead of depending on colonial currencies like CFA, Dollar, pounds etc
ONE POWERFUL ARMY:
For Afrikan defense from internal and external threats
ONE POWERFUL GOVT:
A govt that oversees the interests of all Afrikans
ONE AFRIKAN CONTINENTAL BANK
ONE LARGE ECONOMY
ONE LARGE MARKET:
A market of 1.3 billion people
THE AFRIKAN MONETARY FUND:
To balance the Afrikan economy
And many other powerful advantages which are too numerous to mention and which Afrikans cannot take advantage of without unity:

It will make all people of Afrikan descent have a govt they can rely on worldwide;
It will boost Intra-Afrika trade, and therefore Afrikan ICT, productivity in Agriculture, health, Manufacturing etc

Afrikans must be well informed on the many benefits that are attached to the Continental Unity of Afrika so we can all come together as leaders and people and get the One Afrikan Nation into existence: no Afrikan state can rise and stand alone but together as one United Afrika all Afrikan states shall rise as they desire and never have our backs on the ground anymore.

3. ETHNIC/TRIBAL UNITY:
An ethnic group is a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins. While a tribe is group within the ethnic group:

"Ethnic groups have a distinct language and culture. Tribes are offshoots of ethnic groups, meaning that they could speak a dialect of an ethnic group, or have a slightly different sub-culture of an ethnic group. For instance, Arabs are a part of an ethnic group because of a common language and distinct culture."
- Quora.com

Ethnicity in Afrika

"Afrika has 3000 distinct ethnic groups, 2000 languages. Home to the most genetically diverse people on Earth. So diverse that two Afrikans are more genetically different from each other than a Chinese and a European are from each other. Afrika is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent."
- africanholocaust.net

From the above information you can see how much diverse Afrikan people are which is one of the reasons people give on why they think Afrikan Unity is hard; of all the dimensions of Afrikan unity, this dimension of ethnic unity is the toughest even in all nations of the world and it is usually the fault line of disintegration if not well handled and is usually the dimension at which riots, civil wars,  and other forms of agitations are fought and is also the gateway through which colonisers enter to divide and conquer a people.

Nigeria - Biafra war, Rwandan civil war check most of the wars in Afrika and u will likely see one ethnic group against the other, or one religion against the other, it is also the same issue affecting some other nations of the world that have not yet tackled it: eg Blacks and Whites in America.

The continental and ethnic dimensions of Afrikan unity together address the so-called xenophobia in South Afrika by giving all Afrikans one nation, and the
This Ethnic dimension of Afrikan Unity is the dimension of Afrikan Unity that NO leader has actually addressed like the other dimensions: we tend to wish ethnicity away but we can't, we only have to work it out till it fades away till we have full Afrikan Unity when all Afrikans identify themselves as one Ethnic group, one tribe: Afrikan.

How to achieve Afrikan Ethnic Unity

To achieve Ethnic/Tribal Unity, we must
1. Remove the colonial countries in Afrika that has no respect for the Ethnicities and tribes in Afrika.
The map of Afrika today was drawn by the colonisers at the Berlin conference and it has raised so much inter ethnic conflicts in Afrika.
What Afrika needs are Ethnic states within the United States of Afrika. Ethnicities that agree to form states of their own can work together as members of a state in the United Afrika.
From 55 states, Afrika would likely have about 200 states when Afrikan states are drawn according to the wishes of Afrikans.
The ethnic states will remove the fear of domination that exist in the current colonial countries that create disharmony.

2. Let all Afrikans organize as one family in OAF let us discuss our ethnic issues and also the advantages
Let everyone name their grievances and wishes:
We can neutralize tribalism by asking the different tribes to list what they want to achieve, how they want to and the assistance they need and what they will contribute to make their achievements work so that the govt would work with rather than against the interests of her tribes.

3. We must promote One Afrikanidentity:
Ethnicity is an identity, it has a language, culture, religion etc we must promote One Afrikan Ethnicity by promoting  one Afrikan language, common Afrikan dressings etc so we can have an Afrikan identity in place of diverse identities.

4. Common Afrikan Values:

For there to be unity there must be common values system among Afrikans.
Ethnic Unity is to be built and sustained by Love, Wisdom, Truth especially Justice, Courage and dignity.
Every demand made by different tribes must be that which is just (really deserved), we must make sure we do not Rob any group to pay another; we should not take what belongs to one and give another, rather, we must give to each group what belongs to the group and make our nation stand on Justice and then through Global and Continental unity we protect the interests of all Afrikans whether at home or abroad.

4. UNITY BETWEEN AFRIKAN LEADERS AND PEOPLE
Finally, the last dimension of Afrikan unity is the unity between Afrikan Leaders and people.

There is a big gap currently between Afrikan leaders and the  people and the people of Afrika are crying out because:

The leaders are rich and the people are poor;
The leaders are powerful and the people are powerless;
The leaders are on the side of the colonial while the people are yearning for freedom;
The leaders make plans without the consent of the people;
The people do not know how the wealth of the nation is going: no accountability at all
The leaders are carrying out policies that do not reach to the common people
The leaders are living in the best of houses, with security while millions of the Afrikan people are homeless and being killed everyday
The Chinese are buying up Afrika and the leaders are selling Afrika out to them, the people are the ones to suffer it, this is unacceptable
The people of Afrika are yearning for unity  says Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and it is true but the leaders do not have plans for that because they are already comfortable
We want leaders that will feel our pain like Sankara and do something about it till every one is fine
We want leaders like Nkrumah who had the burden for all the people.
We want to see our leaders walking freely on the streets without fear of being mobbed to death because they no know they have nothing to fear;
We want our leaders to carry us along in every program, to sacrifice for us and not sacrifice us to colonisation, hunger and disease
We want our leaders to be humble, caring etc like they are during the election periods
Our leaders should not be like the colonisers who lived large, rode big cars, lived in big houses at our expense.
We expect our leaders to be different since they are our own brothers.

Only people who have the burden for people should be in leadership. They are the ones who would build the people and build the nation
They are the ones that wouldn't be comfortable living in gigantic palaces with steady power while their people are squatting 3 in a room with zero power supply.

The Unity between Afrikan leaders and people is when
1. The leaders and the people have one heart and one vision
2. When the leaders carry the people along in all the programs of the nation.
3. When the people have access to the leaders as much as the people have access to their fathers and mothers.
4. When the leaders and people suffer the same poverty, pain and scarcity together, or better still enjoy the riches of the nation together.
5. When the leaders work for the people using the resources of the nation.
6. When the leaders use the same roads, hospitals, schools etc that the people use rather than flying private jets while the people trek, or being treated abroad while hospitals at home are in ruins, or send their children abroad for education while schools at home are badly substandard.
7. Finally, it is when the leaders listen to the grievances, wishes and wills of the people they represent and act according to them.

When the leaders and the people are one, the leaders can die for the people and the people can die for their leaders than see them hurt, the  resources of Afrika wouldn't develop Europe or America or the bank accounts of Afrikan leaders, but the resources of Afrika would develop Afrika and there would be peace, justice, love and progress all across the Afrikan Family worldwide and the people of Afrika shall no longer be the least people on earth but the greatest in the world.
So be it

The Unity between the leaders and the people of Afrika must be developed as a new ground of Afrikan unity and fully attained so that the leaders and the people wont continue to move at opposite directions.

Failure to unite Afrikan leaders and people = Bloody revolution

Summary

Afrikan Unity is the cooperation of all Afrikans toward progress.
Afrikan Unity is a deep network of realities.
There are 3 dimensions of Afrikan Unity: Global, Continental and Tribal Unity.
Pan-Afrikanism started with the move for the Global Unity of Afrikans founded by Edward Wilmot Blyden.
The Continental Unity of Afrikans is the unification of Afrika into one nation.
Tribal unity of Afrikans is the deepest dimension of Afrikan Unity which no leader has yet addressed.
The present colonial system of govt is not Democratic and will continue to downplay Afrikan Democracy.
Failure to unite the Afrikan leaders and people would lead to revolution.

Conclusion

Globally, Continentally and Ethnically, leaders and people of Afrika Must Unite!!!

Eze Chimere Nwauzo
Leader of OAF