African Unity
Between ambition and will power - The insight of an African Ambassador at post in Addis Ababa

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Ambassador of Senegal in Brussels, after five (5) years in the same functions in Ethiopia and to the African Union, it is from Brussels that the author casts a detached look on the march of the African Continent towards political unity. In this document, he seizes the opportunity of the execution of the AU Institutional Reform project, launched with enthusiasm in 2017, to revisit all the previous Reform programmes, by considering the reasons for their successes and their failures in the winding path of building African Unity. Between ideal and ambition, the achievement of the latter still comes up against several pitfalls that the Union strives to gradually overcome by putting forward new programmes, or by adapting existing ones. The author seizes this opportunity to invite readers on an odyssey into the glorious history of Africa. Its ownership by its own sons and daughters as well as its narration and popularisation, constitute the best way to overcome the inhibitory traumas and their corrosive effects, brakes to the realization of the decisive step of Africa towards its Great Destiny.

Auteur Baye Moctar Diop, Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor, is currently the Ambassador of Senegal to Belgium after having served as his country's Permanent Representative to the African Union from 2016 to 2021. Diplomat by training, Mr. Diop holds the Senegalese National School of Administration (ENA) Diploma in Diplomacy (2001), a Master's Degree of English (1998) from Cheikh Anta DIOP University (Dakar) in 1998 with a specialization in African Literature and Civilization and aPost Graduate Certificate in Public Administration and Governance (2010) from the University of Ottawa in Canada.