Questions:
1.To what extent do you feel the priorities of the past (mentioned below) are still in play?
2.To what extent have those priorities been realized or do you feel the ball has been dropped?

Context:
- in his opening address to the 1st conference of the PAC in April 1959 in regard to the position of South Africa in relation to the rest of Africa, Sobukwe referred to Padmore’s book, Pan Africanism or Communism (From Protest to Challenge, v.3, p. 513):

“Discussing the future of Afrika, Padmore observes that ‘there is a growing feeling among politically conscious Africans throughout the continent that their destiny is one, that what happens in one part of Afrika to Africans must affect Africans living in other parts’.

“We honour Ghana as the first independent state in modern Afrika which, under the courageous nationalist leadership of Dr. Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, has actively interested itself in the liberation of the whole continent from White domination, and has held out the vision of a democratic United States of Afrika. We regard it as the sacred duty of every African state to strive ceaselessly and energetically for the creation of a United States of Afrika, stretching from Cape to Cairo, Morocco to Madagascar.

“The days of small, independent countries are gone. Today we have, on the one hand, great powerful countries of the world; America and Russia cover huge tracts of land territorially and number hundreds of millions in population. On the other hand the small weak independent countries of Europe are beginning to realise that for their own survival they have to form military and economic federations, hence NATO and the European market.

“Besides the sense of common historical fate that we share with the other countries of Afrika, it is imperative, for purely practical reasons that the whole of Afrika be united into a single unit, centrally controlled. Only in that way can we solve the immense problems that face the continent.”