President John Mahama has called on his fellow African leaders to stop paying lip service to continental unity which has resulted in the creating of borders making Africans foreigners and strangers in their own land.
He also called for radical steps to be taken to ensure that the call for African Unity is move beyond �deliberations among Heads of States on the continent.�
Addressing the 50th Anniversary celebration gathering of African leaders, President Mahama pointed out that �we cannot speak of a true African renaissance when we continue to pursue different, and sometimes conflicting or contradictory social, economic and political policies that serve the interests of former colonial and world powers.�
According to him, it is time for Africans �to discard the notion that our Pan--‐African vision of continental unity can be achieved by asking countries to collapse their individual national sovereignties into a composite sovereignty at the continental level.�
President Mahama suggested that �the Pan--‐African vision is to be embraced by the broad masses of our people in cities, villages, hamlets, and cottages across the continent, we must in the spirit of democratic participation, give our people an opportunity to share in a partnership for realizing our collective dream.�
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