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Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi is an impatient man, with the attention span of a four-year-old. No wonder he was sidelined by the Arabs and became an overnight Pan-African in 2002.
Gadaffi now wants to be king of a United States of Africa and is doling out fistfuls of oil-dollars to persuade the continent’s leaders that his big-bang approach is the way to go.
In Tripoli last week he sought to win the support of the Maghreb and Francophone African countries ahead of this weekend’s African Union summit, where a USA is on the agenda. He wants a common currency, the Afro; political union; a continental army; and a super-African president -- himself.
Typically, he is driving from Sirte to Accra, Ghana, for the summit. Eish! At least he’s good for a headline.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi is an impatient man, with the attention span of a four-year-old. No wonder he was sidelined by the Arabs and became an overnight Pan-African in 2002.
Gadaffi now wants to be king of a United States of Africa and is doling out fistfuls of oil-dollars to persuade the continent’s leaders that his big-bang approach is the way to go.
In Tripoli last week he sought to win the support of the Maghreb and Francophone African countries ahead of this weekend’s African Union summit, where a USA is on the agenda. He wants a common currency, the Afro; political union; a continental army; and a super-African president -- himself.
Typically, he is driving from Sirte to Accra, Ghana, for the summit. Eish! At least he’s good for a headline.
