Travel around Africa and you will find schools and roads built by European Union money; private sector foundations supported by USAID; projects funded by the DfID; mosques and health centres built by the Qatar Fund or the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. The list is long.
There is one thing you will not find — anything built or funded by the African Union, which is currently having its summit in Uganda. Not even a chalkboard or chair in a village school.
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Right now Africa’s true love are its regional organisations like the EAC. The AU’s time will come, of course. When Africa is in mid-life crisis, it will take it on as a good second wife.
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