Pan African Parliament

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               I will love for us to understand the concept of this institution call pan african parliament [PAP], it is one of the organ of AU, it was founded since 2004, it have a president and secretary general and all countries of Africa sent their elected deputes to represent them, the problem is I do not know how many resolution is been taken there to better the life of African? since 2004 it was as for me always under the radar without making to much of noise until recently when in their session they were chaotic scene among those so call noble deputes who supposed to deal with the better life of African children.

               Let first deal with this situation, Africa as a continent is divided in regional block, we have west region, east region, south side,north region and the central region, this is just the beginning of the problem, you may ask but this is not an issue, no you are wrong because it is a big issue because this countries in their regional block they are not ready to let go their regional block for the sake of the continental issue, now you will put this situation also which of the Northern regional block always see themselves as Arab first not as African, they will be African when it is for their benefit and Arab all the times and also associate with Arab countries of the middle East, then there is this problem which we did get from our past with colonialism, the issues is about the languages, in Africa there is this issues of Francophone, Anglophone, and countries that Lusophone, which are portuguese speaking African countries this block are a great problem, which is became a tower of babel of the Bible times. There is a situation where the Francophone will go against the Anglophone and the Anglophone will also go against the Francophone, this language block most of the times they are serving their colonial masters goals, example everything that the French government will ask they are African French speaking countries to do, they will do it, now all this situation it is making the Pan Africa Parliament very difficult to operate and help bring prosperity and make Africa a better place to live.

                 Even so in my humble opinion this situations which I mention above can be resolved easily if we became really  a real Pan African like Kwame Nkruma, Mze Julius Nyerere, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumunba let me just names this few, who were the messengers of pan africanism and were fighting for the united Africa however  all this situations has make that Africa is now more divide, let me give you this example to travel in Africa as African is not easy, you need to have visas and those visas are not free, I can acknowledge that some progress has been made also but in majority it is still a major issue, the Pan African Parliment was going to vote a new president then the situation was the Southern regional block said it is now their time to have a president, because their region since the beginning of pan African parliament did not have a president,  by the look of the things it seem an easy things to do or to handle however this is not so with Africa politic, put this in mind the others regional blocks and regional speaking blocks must play their role in this voting process but if the Francophone gangs come together plus others regional blocks against the candidate of the southern regional candidate there is no chance of southern regional candidate to win and the situation will remain the same which southern region will not have a president again, let me break it down the French speaking countries are many and also their blocks have many countries than southern region, that where the problem was therefore chaos and boxing fight and karate and war of words was the norm of the day for two days, the southern region make sure that the election must not go ahead and disrupt the seating of the parliament and this has actually make African people to know about the parliament.

               The question is does this parliament really helpful for African? my answer is no and yes, let me explain it, why I said no; because the parliament in it position now it is not helping at all, why I said yes; because if the parliament is given power on adopting laws and make those laws to be implemented then the parliament will be helpful, but as it is today the parliament is a talk shop that will be know for only things that is not helpful at all, like the things that happen there when they were about to vote a new president.

God bless Africa