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172 AFRICA MUST UNITE
In the face of the forces that are combining to reinforce neo­
colonialism in Africa, it is imperative that the leaders should
begin now to seek the best and quickest means by which we can
collectivize our economic resources and produce an integrated
plan for their careful deployment for our m utual benefit. If we
can do this, we shall raise in Africa a great industrial, economic
and financial power comparable to any that the world has seen
in our time.
Such effective economic links, however, are impossible
to establish without sound political direction to give them
force and purpose. Therefore, we must come to grips first with
the major and basic issue of African unity, which alone can clear
the way for the united effort in erecting the powerful industrial
and economic structure which will give substance and reality
to our dream of a strong African continent, absolutely freed from
political and economic colonialism.