ONEUNITEDAFRICA- WE PREACHED IT

A writer once said if you can think it, you will see it. 

The Right Step Forward: Brothers Rediscover Themselves.

Its a Brand New Day.. Thank you, Your Excellency #President #Cyril #Rhamaphosa.

At every juncture where the opportunity presented itself, we were quick to remind everyone of the inherent opportunities in a United Africa. 

Today we are taking steps toward that vision for the very first time since the outbreak of XENOPHOBIA attacks last year and early this year, all eyes had been on South Africa.

Now fast track to the election of President Cyril Rhamaphosa as the chairman African Union, rising from the 33rd General assembly in February 2020.

I was quick to post that all eyes are on President Ramaphosa and how he will handle the issue of black on black violence in Africa.

Today, the new chairman of Africa Union has discharged the burden well with the appointment of Mrs Okonjo Iweala, a distinguished Nigerian, certified and acclaimed global recovery economist, as the head of the economic recovery team of the republic of south africa. 

Now there are a number of perspectives to this seemingly simple act of President Ramaphosa.

1. Is Mrs Okonjo Iweala the only person who could do this job? Absolutely No!

2. Are we saying there are no well known and respected South African economists? No

3. Is this not thesame South Africa where Nigerians were killed and displaced just last year, 500 of them voluntarily left, a country labelled for XENOPHOBIA. The answer is Yes.

Now President Ramaphosa if not profoundly intuitive may have allowed some people to shoot down the choice of Mrs Okonjo Iweala, using primordial sentiments of not a being South African but he rose above it. 

This is not enough to say the appointment was given solely because Mrs Iweala is the only one that can do the job, or that she is an African, but inspite of that President Ramaphosa did not allow attempts to further rip Africans apart to gain traction by going for her. 

Now by this simple action, He has dealt XENOPHOBIA a huge blow at least somewhat, but this message, this must therefore become the pivot for other interventions upon which the healing of the relationship between the two countries I.e Nigeria and South Africa must be predicated.

Yes the appointment would have been informed first and foremost because Mrs Okonjo Iweala has what it takes to navigate South Africa out of recession and the implications on the people, businesses and government of South Africa, but she could not have been the only person who can do the job!

By this symbolic and reality informed decision, President Ramaphosa has at least scored a hat trick goal that will suggest that resentment of other blacks PARTICULARLY Nigerians in South Africa named XENOPHOBIA as the world witnessed in September last 2019, that his government may not be complicit as many thought.

Unfortunately that sad incidents coincided with World Economic Forum, when the world was looking at Africa. 

There is benefit of the doubt now that can now convey the impression that XENOPHOBIA is not a state policy as it was almost being perceived, because South Africa's policemen are said to look on or look the other way when other nationals were being attacked and those arrested were released just a few minutes later, not to talk of the popular video of the Senior police officer who instead of condemning the xenophobic attacks rather chose to gloat in justification.

By this need driven appointment, which ultimately would come with expectations of a quick turn around of the economy of South Africa by leveraging on the OKONJO IWEALA BRAND and the EQUITY that the brand can deliver, the appointment provides a very good opportunity to harvest more from the main product, the values desirable from the distillate coming from the major extraction process is very complementary. 

When we started the #ONEUNITEDAFRICA project aimed at healing and restoring Africans to the pristine position of brothers and sisters, we clearly set before us, adopted, and canvassed a #PEOPLE #TO #PEOPLE #ENGAGEMENT #PARADIGM. 

We opined that people to people engagement holds great prospects of healing of the fractures on the continent, this is a good example of that. 

Yes this may be a high level intervention that may not be easily digested or digestible by the guys on the streets, who may not have access to TV or Facebook(I doubt much) but the truth is that at some point they will hear it on radio that a Nigerian woman is one of the people saddled with the responsibility of restoring the economic fortune of the People of South Africa. That must be emphasized and reechoed 

Hopefully if the recovery of the economy of South Africa is not assured and tied to an Okonjo working with others within the limits of human projection, I do not think Mrs Iweala will be hired as a turn around kid for this herculean task that the lives of many depend on regardless of wether you are Zulus or Xhosa or any other four major tribe. 

I am sure none of those who have imbibed the evil philosophy of black hating blacks will call Mrs Okonjo Iweala a "#kwerekwere" after working with others assiduously to get food back to the tables of many South Africans!

And so on this auspicious step, I want to salute the need motivated courage of President Cyril Ramaphosa, and ask him most respectfully to build on this step, to use this giant decision to the maximum, because perception is one of the greatest attributes of valour.

Let this appointment signal the dawn of a new day not only among Nigerians and South Africans, but a key to further unlock the yet untapped humongous opportunities inherent in a peaceful but united Africa. 

Let the message go out that economics will not get better if we are not united, infact hostility is antithetical to any form of development 

Lastly let this be the moment in history that Africans will find their ways back to the philosophy of Pan Africanism which we have stridently canvassed over the past eight months as couched in the ONE UNITED AFRICA RENNAISSANCE VISION.see www.oneunitedafrica.org 

I rejoice because our vision and effort has secured a renewed commitment and impetus.

We can only ask for more Africans to recall our shared history as the polevault to launch us into the realisation of the dreams that the forebears of this continent lived and died for. 

This is the reason why we have picked the baton to #crusade, #mobilise, #conscientise the new generation of Africans in order to raise an #informed, #educated and #reflective #successor #generation that will hold the banner aloft and keep the vision alive.

But most importantly resting on our shared history bring the Pan African vision to deliver maximum impact for the peoples of Africa. 

This is the best way to #immortalise the #Patriachs who have departed and their works while #celebrating the very few vestiges who are still alive. 

This is the spirit behind the #ONEUNITEDAFRICA- #AFRICA2020 #crusade. 

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For: ONE UNITED AFRICA

7th March 2020.