The Importance of Africa to The World System After 9/11 Attacks: War on Terrorism or Integration for Sustainable Development

4.5.2 Which way forward; We can be Zulu, Hutu, Bantu, Semi-Bantu, Hausa or Yoruba, hard working devoted men of God or Allah, one thing remain true in that, we share a common heritage of joy and pain of the beauty and richness of Africa, the turbulence in the world system that has made Africa an object in IR and resource a curse, since 9/11 is an opportunity for reflection on core values, requiring an understanding for a shift in thinking and focus, walking the talk and acting on a common spiritual ideal by which all black people south of the Sahara give meaning to life and reality known as the, ‘’UBUNTU Philosophy’’⁶³, as a spiritual foundation of all African societies, Africans should pull together their cultural diversities, and as a collective man draft an African agenda (consensus) with which to present their demands in an interconnected world system.

Africa’s hope for development is the heart of the African problem ‘’poverty’’ and other societal challenges, there is need for securing meaningful partnership between the various entities within the states and markets societies, to share responsibility and accountability of the security impacts to allow for a political and functional integration of all the various entities and sectors interfering in development, from the local highest level in polity to the grassroots activists (regional integration)and from the highest level in polity in the international to the lowest level in the local grassroots (international organizations, and multinational corporations) to benefit from the ‘’spill over ’’⁶⁴ effects as propounded by (Hass 1958) and talked of by (Nugent 1995) in Big Men Small Boys and the Politics in Ghana.

In an earlier study on Population and Economic Development on Africa and Asia, that of Democracy and Good Governance in Development in Africa and the West, and Improving on the Quality of Education and Sustainable Development in SA, we concluded that education was an economic engine to succeed development, it is the life basket of the nation work force. President Nelson Mandela once said ‘’education is the most powerful weapon used to change the world’’. According to (Muller and Subotzky 2000, p.163), improving on the quality of education reveals the context of a country’s ‘’dual developmental imperatives’’ of simultaneously addressing the basic needs and engage in global competition. Therefore the governments of countries of the Gulf of Guinea with an ever increasing unskilled population should seize the moment with resource security to educate their large population into crafts, trades and be able to ‘’read the word and the world’’ (Frerie and Macedo 1987), for the development of mass culture of awareness, common sense and the development of a middle class intellectuals, that could be beneficial to the economy of these countries and the world at large.

Without fear or favour the time and moment is Africa’s, therefore we dare not fail, many things did not work out well for Africa but with the second chance of the richness of her soil, the governments of the countries of the Gulf of Guinea in particular must be cautious and watch out for dubious compromising agreement that and partnerships that only compromise the future of the beautiful ones are not yet born. The practice of planned exploitation I mean the imposition of tariff quotas and barriers to oil trade, avoid the power diplomacy of pax Americana be it pax Britannica or a la France. Common sense therefore warrants that we construct visionary good neighbourliness diplomacy to replace the balance of power equilibrium which never balances. This done will itself bring about the sweet moment of integration and free movement of goods and persons that will lead to the construction of an African identity.

The creation of a Cosmopolitan Youth Service Peace Corps (CYSPCO) with which to bring about an African agenda and the realization of the African geo-strategy; Bring about the United States of Africa, an African identity, an African currency, common market, philosophical ideology of cooperative democratic governance compromise, build an African data base and blend Africa’s cultural diversity and sell as information, No one deny the power of cooperative efforts aimed at enhancing the environmental performance, as a collective man research efforts aimed at improving environmental technology such as the invention of clean bio-fuel to reduce dependence on oil and gas as source of energy thereby degrading planet earth should be considered that also serve as a solution to the problem of depletion.