The African Union (AU) is an organisation consisting of fifty-three African states. Established in 2001, the AU was formed as a successor to the amalgamated African Economic Community (AEC) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).

Eventually, the AU aims to have a single currency and a single integrated defence force, as well as other institutions of state, including a cabinet for the AU Head of State. The purpose of the union is to help secure Africa's democracy, human rights, and a sustainable economy, especially by bringing an end to intra-African conflict and creating an effective common market.

The urgent need for technology training (long ago identified by Kwame N'Krumah and W.E.B. DuBois) .... still exists for the African Union to build many more dedicated academies-institutes ...

http://www.uneca.org/estnet/index.html

... to recruit, train and commit functional experts to build and/or own or administer critically needed  enterprising infrastructures in Africa; such as interstate highways, bridging, mining, cement manufacture, water & power distribution, pipelines, etc.

Approximately ten percent of African youth, both males and females, are uniquely gifted-talented to help build the infrastructure necessary to integrate the global economy. Training youth abroad will lose most of them!  Immigration of Diaspora talent is smart.

Long-term dependence on foreign contractors is not smart. The site is a quick reference tool about the type gifted and talented minds needed for the long-term thinking (20 to 50 years into future) to even comprehend how equally great minds (like Bill Gates) are able to:

... numerically categorize, classify and manage organizational missions and methods that matter most to legitimate processes of mass production, distribution and consumption by the world's billions of souls. 

Prime Minister Nehru of India did as President N'Krumah sought to do, ... train gifted and talented youth to master world-standard communications and trade with other cultures and various national interests.

Nehru was hated in western capital markets as much if not more than the mercantile based racism against N'Krumah; but he and successors were able to keep hopes alive for the Indian sub-continent,

... agriculture, industrial and medical education of India's talented tenth to develop society without being re-colonized by overseas capitalism. He was not a Euro-Centric socialist, but a Asian realist with his own dreams of a modern India, not unlike what his friend Kwame N'Krumah wanted for Africa.

Review our view of required capabilities, on menu below, to uplift Africa for the Africans, and give us your opinion and/or inputs for inclusion or deletion. 

 

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