Profs say: no fast solution to Africa unity, apartheid
By EMMANUEL AKUCHU
Neither an end to apartheid in South Africa nor a United States of African can be achieved now, two KU professors maintained at Africa Day celebrations Saturday.
The speakers, Roger Kanet, assistant professor of political science, and Nicholas Willems, associate professor of civil engineering, spoke on "African Unity: Problems and Prospects" and "Southern Africa: What Future," respectively.
Kanet wrote his doctoral dissertation on the foreign policy of the Soviet Union in Subsaharan Africa. He also teaches at the African collogium.
WILLEMS IS a former resident of South Africa.
"I am not optimistic about political unity for Africa in the next 20 to 30 years," Kanet said. To achieve African unity, he said, economic cooperation is necessary.
Kanet outlined four major problems facing African unity, including the question of independence:
- The types of help independent states should offer African states still struggling to achieve independence;
- How African unity should take place;
- Border disputes; and,
- Trade and aid relations of African states between themselves and the Western powers, Russia and China.
African states are also divided on the question on how Africa should develop economically, Kanet said. Scientific socialism, African socialism and complete free enterprise are the different methods that African states are trying to adopt.
About the prospects of African unity, Kanet said, that when communication and transportation problems have been solved and economic cooperation achieved, African problems will be solved.
SPEAKING ABOUT the apartheid in South Africa, Nicholas Willems said there is no freedom of speech, no opposition to the government and association with the "wrong color."
through apartheid and the whites tell them what to do.
The whites in South Africa, Willems said, want to see the non-whites kept in their place
"It is unrealistic for people in Africa to think this is not going to be the case for a long time," Willems said.
Willems left South Africa partly because in his words "I saw no solution to the problem."
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