PLO LUMUMBA: NORTH AFRICA SHOULD FOLLOW NASSER, GADDAFI

Just a few days ago an Algerian football fan and influencer turned up in Ivory Coast for AFCON and slagged off the host nation. She basically said her country should divorce itself from poor uncivilised African countries and link up with the likes of Spain and Portugal instead. It stoked plenty of debate about the superiority complex of some African Arab states and their relationship with the rest of the continent.

Well, we got the thoughts of pan-African scholar PLO Lumumba who didn't shirk the challenge. He went through the Arab slave trade and highlighted the recent appalling treatment of African migrants in Tunisia and Libya. He also took aim at Morocco’s desire for ‘proximity to whiteness’. So much so, they once left the African Union to court European Union membership.

But Lumumba insists it doesn’t have to be like this and remembers previous North African leaders, such as Nasser and Gaddafi, who preached African unity. The question is: why don't other leaders want to do the same? Join the debate and leave your comments below.