Considering the rough-and-ready manner in which they disposed of him, apparently his people didn't think so .... And key to his True Vision was his being king of the United States of Africa ...
Still, Africa has never been short of visions (true and otherwise); there were numerous spectacular ones in the heady days of independence. In fact, the writer of the article does not seem to be aware of the fact that Gadaffi was simply recycling Nkrumah's vision:
http://www.pambazuka.org/pan-africanism/where-nkrumah%E2%80%99s-united-states-africa-50-yearsThe only bright future Nkrumah envisioned in Africa was one in which the entire continent agreed to a common market, a single currency, an African Central bank, a common foreign policy, a common defence system and a common citizenship amongst others. Anything short of the above was a recipe for further exploitation, decadence and a futureless people with hardly any potential for appreciable development.
What has been lacking?
Take this statement from that article:
Raise your hand if you see anything resembling a sense of reality in such timelines. (2017 is next year, and 2018 is the year after.)
The article has this, by way of explanation:
Raise your hand if you can see a sudden change in any of that and especially in leadership. (Nkrumah himself went on to engage in the sort of nastiness that is only too familiar but which people would rather forget about him: he become "President For Life", rode roughshod over the law, turned Ghana into an unpleasant one-party dictatorship, ... and left office in the
kienyeji way.) To my mind, a far better approach would be to start with regional blocks that really work and only then proceed to United Africa.
As for the AU, it could start by financing itself. Visions and Dreams that are to be financed by others have an inherent weakness in the realization.
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