Anyway the date of the map does not really matter in my argument that Europe has been divided in many countries with generally homogeneous populations while Africa until today has many countries with straight borderlines disregarding the cultures and languages. One (of many) cause for eternal bickering about a newly elected president, seen as representing a tribe as the country is not -and never will be- a homogeneous country.
Trying to re-draw the map will go with many conflicts, encouraged by outsiders for many different reasons.
Europe has had over 2000 years of such wars. Africa could learn from this in an attempt to form the equivalent of the EU.
As it stands today, I see little chance of that happening.
I did not blame colonialism, I simply mentioned an administrative event which led to a non African arrangement to suit the plundering hordes from Europe.
Any attempt to make serious changes to the arrangement will be blocked by hook or by crook, directly or indirectly by the current economic powers in Africa.
Continued African wars will be on the cards unless sanity prevails and lessons from the “birth” of the EU will be taken to heart by African leaders.

A united states of Africa is the vainglorious dream of a madman. We can’t even get SADC working properly down here. Come back in 200 years time and there might be half a chance.

It has taken the EEC nearly half a century to reach its current structure, even with largely democratic, developed or developing countries involved.

SA must never become the ATM for incompetent, corrupt, nepotistic, poverty-stricken, tribalism- riddled dictatorships to the North – even if they have oil.

Later he craftily nobbled the PAP [Pan African Parliament] headquarters for Midrand thereby making Gauteng the Brussels of Africa/Azania. This is an action, [a truly long term plan] for which he has never been widely recognised his achievement having been drowned in the overall hullabaloo of the Aids denialist era

In order for such a union to exist, the member states have to be totally committed to the tenants of democracy and accountability. This is not high on the agenda of many African countries.

What would happen when a leader should be chosen by democratic election? Probably a continent wide war, when the favourite candidate of certain groups did not win.

I think that brother leader (BL) is a little bit more intelligent than that.
BL does understand that African countries are established during a European tea party after WW1. That is almost 100 years ago and has caused much of the conflicts in Africa after previous “colonies” were given independence.
The new countries were based on the old colonial borders, ignoring tribal differences such basics as culture and language.
European borders were established by wars and negotiations but always with culture and language in mind.
Africa has may straight (artificial)border lines. Europe has not.
BL’s thinking seems to make sense in the long term. His thinking might just be a century ahead of his African brothers who prefer wealth over national/regional prosperity.

Morocco not being a member of the AU because of its occupation of Western Sahara and sure it might be a constitutional monarchy but the King is head of the army, and is both the legal and spiritual head of the state, i.e. an absolute monarch.

There are already a couple of monetary unions in Africa, including our own with Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho and the CFA franc in West Africa and Central Africa.

Then there are the parts where I agree with you, Africa as a whole is not ready. The EU itself started as a common market for steel and coal, as the basis for closer economic integration to prevent future wars after WWII or the European Wars, as I like to call them. So maybe the AU should start from a simple point, after all, it took 50 years to create the euro.