Based on the proposal of the former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, the first Extra Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government of the African Union in January 2003 formally integrated the Diaspora as the Sixth Region of the AU. The assembly accepted the resolution and immediately approved the Protocol on the Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union, which invites and encourages the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our continent, in the building of the African Union. At a Summit Meeting of the African Union in Khartoum in 2006, anew constitutional amendment made the Diaspora voting members of the AU, a realization of Marcus Garveys fantastic declaration of right of citizenship. He usually said to African Americans: You are not without a country. God almighty gave you a country, the richest and most prolific among all continents. He gave you the great continent of Africa.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:02:01 +0000
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