Medhanie, T: Towards Confederation in the Horn of Africa

Perhaps this book will be quickly dismissed since it advocates a confederation of the main states in the Horn of Africa at a time when this seems most unlikely because of internal conflicts, proxy wars and serious regional discord. Readers only need to be reminded of the "durable¿ legal racism of apartheid, the concrete walls of Berlin, and the endless killing fields of Rwanda to regain your attention to address what seems "impossible¿ to conclude or transform. African "mammy wagons¿ proclaim "No Condition is Permanent.¿
Medhanie's imaginative, ¿out-of-the box' proposal launches the dreams of a new era. Yes, this will not be happening today but who imagined Europe with one currency and a serious European Union? Who imagined Africa with increased capacity for self governance and peace-making? Who imagined in 1940 that the continent of Africa would be fully DE-colonized in the next fifty years? Who imagined that the President of the United States would have a Luo father? Dreams of the present do, in fact, sometimes become the realities in the future.