USA4USAfrica est 1996 The world's 1st Internet Coalition for the formation of a United States of Africa

"Africa, your future is in your hands.

44th President of the United States of America

Accra Speech, 11 July 2009

The USA4USAFRICA was actually born from the quote of Muhammad Ali in 1987 in a personal meeting with me in which he revealed he would like to see the whole of Africa united in his lifetime. I never forgot those words and decided one day I would have a viable way to make it happen. Then came the Internet and in a moment of epiphany the movement was reborn as USA4USAFRICA in 1996.

It is scandalous that we in post-colonial Africa wasted a half-century waiting for President Obama to come to tell us "yes, you can." It is now incumbent upon us to prove that the Accra speech did not land on deaf ears.

Answering the call to action. To avert an imminent danger of 53 African despots imposing a unilateral federation on one billion Africans, the Initiative for a United States of Africa is the democratic alternative to the status quo for the African people to say how they want to be governed under a continental system of government. An African constitution drafted and ratified by the African people is the only option on the table. For the full mission statement, click here.

A United States of Africa the continent's megalomaniac rulers pledged in 1963 is a broken promise a half-century later. These dictators have wasted 50 years of the African people's time blocking African unification in their self-serving interest of ruling, plundering and pillaging their individual states forever.

Business tycoon-turned-activist Mo Ibrahim told a forum on good governance in Dar es Salaam on 14 November 2009 that Africa's selfish rulers are standing in the way of African unification lest they lose their power. "Having a United States of Africa means only one of the 53 of them will be the president of Africa," Mo correctly observed.

Brazil was the center of the slave trade carried on under the Portuguese flag, both before and after Brazilian independence in 1822, and Portugal was by far the largest of the national carriers. Brazil dominated the slave trade in the sense that Rio de Janeiro and Bahia sent out more slaving voyages than any port in Europe, and certainly many times more than did Lisbon. Over nearly three centuries between 1560 and 1850, Brazil was consistently the largest destination for slaves in the Americas. Almost all the slaves coming into the region came from just two coastal areas in Africa: the Bight of Benin and West-central Africa.

	Search the Voyages Database Look for particular voyages in this database of documented slaving expeditions. Create listings, tables, charts, and maps using information from the database.
	Examine Estimates of the Slave Trade Slaves on documented voyages represent four-fifths of the number who were actually transported. Use the interactive estimates page to analyze the full volume and multiple routes of the slave trade.
	Explore the African Names Database This database identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation.

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