The African Union Explained: Is Africa's 55 Member Union the 'European Union' of Africa? - TLDR News
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- Described by some as the EU of Africa, the African Union is a 55 member union that works together to develop a "A United and Strong Africa". In this video we explain the union, how took inspiration from the European Union and what it's planning for the future.
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Facilitating inter-African trade is essential for strengthening Africa's political position in the world
I really really wish the best for Africa, this union will help the continent overcome many of their problems and lower foreign intervention on their affairs
It would also increase the genera wealth of the people creating a growing middle class who would demand representation.
True, it is sad that nationalist and socialist leaders set up so many tarifs tho. They have to remove them if they want their economy to grow.
Doesn't China own Africa already tho
@@Ned-nw6ge most of Africa is in China's sphere of influence yes.
As an African, I really appreciate seeing all the love, encouragement and support in the comments for the AU. It truly is I believe a step in the right direction for my continent.
trade yummy food and cool clothes not guns! it's best for everyone
Africa and Europe need to work together to challenge USA-China duopoly
@RoastWorthy that's sad, but as china takes over the infrastructures in africa because africa can't pay, governments in africa probably deny debt or credit from china
Most westerners are happy to give words of support. As long as you don't buddy up with China who is actually giving you real support.
@@asdf3568 if by real support you mean predatory loans, then yes.
Meanwhile in the parallel universe
TLDR News AU: *makes a video about EU*
😂
Normie
Remember when Africa colonized Europe? That was crazy
@@mariotheundying that did happen before, when the ummayyad caliphate took spain and some parts of the balkans, and when the ottomans took more of the balkans.
@@cageybee7221 There's a small problem though, the Umayyad Caliphate was based on Arabia and the Ottoman Empire was based on Anatolia.
It would've made more sense to talk about the Carthaginians or the Almoravids.
I think the AU is and will be more of a partner to the EU, rather than a challenger. A united and prosperous Africa is surely in the interest of Europe.
I disagree, the west don’t want to see a United Africa. The immense power Africa would have, were it to act as one would destabilize the current western world order. Why do you think the west and China are butting heads too?
@B.B.J. I think it is more that China is an authoritarian nation *and* has immense sway, more than it just having sway. I think the African Union goals align well with the EUs goal in a more collaborative world.
This is not true Europe donot have the interest of Africa, they wish even the worse for Africa if not that Europe and The USA would not loot so much money from Africa countries. When Africa go low Europe and the State go high. Imagine Africa have big factories and manufactering everything in Africa how do you think the rest of the world outside Africa would look like economically.
@@Junior-zf7yy The EU has economic and political interests in partnering itself with the AU. If the EU can allign the AU towards Democracy and the protection of human rights then the EU would gladly accept an AU state, as it would become a valuable ally for the EU, and the EU would become a valuable ally for the AU.
@@GregofGregsFame True, the AU does have similar goals and ideologies as Europe in terms of democracy and human rights contrary to China. It’s very possible that they become strong partners in the future actually.
A map showing what states are in or aren't would've been nice.
It's pretty much all of Africa except the few remaining colonies. Wikipedia describes it as, "Member states of the African Union cover almost the entirety of continental Africa, except for several territories held by Spain (Canary Islands, Plazas de soberanía); France (Mayotte, Réunion, Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean); Portugal (Madeira, Savage Islands); and the United Kingdom (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)."
Calling Madeira, the Canary Islands, Réunion and Mayotte “Colonies” is far fetched
@@edipires15 "overseas terrories" used to be synonymous with colony, but if you prefer that term...
@@deckie_ he is correct because Hawaii is not a colony in the Canary islands are much more similar to Hawaii than the 13 colonies
actually that's a dielema, cuz Sahraoui republic is a member of Union, helped by algeria, Morocco didn't like that, but since algeria has a great influence in the Union, the Polizario reperesentation of the country stayed and the african states accepted it.
I hear that Morocco has decided to rejoin the EU.
So, that's why the map maybe controversial, cuz algeria made them accept a state that's not independent yet.
This is actually the prelude of a brand new "TLDR News AU" channel :)
I'd actually be so interested in that. I imagine there's a lot that goes on in Africa that we just don't know about!
Agreed, I think they should have a channel to all areas of the globe
Literally the first thing I thought when the video started, I'd love to see a TLDR News AU
AU = Australia, should be TLDR News Africa
Guess it would be cool but seems like a lot of supplemental work
Great summary. For those wanting to know more:
-There is currently an African Free Trade Agreement under negotiation
-There is African Union Agenda 2063, which sets long term goals for the continent
-In addition to plans for one currency, there are also plans for one passport
These are obviously going to take a loooot of time because of all other urgent issues on the continent
Dayuuum, one passport? I hope it goes well for them, an AFTA is definitely a good step in the right direction
@@Jon-is4ep the one passport has already been in use by government officials and was supposed to go into wider circulation this year but then covid happend.
@@bogueji1 oh word? That’s sick, got a source? I’d like to know more
@@bogueji1 SOUNDS LIKE A BIG STEPS TOWARDS UNITED NATIONS OF AFRICA.
@Jo well anybody relatively smart can predict that's a embellishment.
I really hope this ends up working. Imagine if the entirety of Africa had the wealth and stability of Europe - an unimaginable amount of additional science, technology, and progress would be created. The more of humanity that has the peace and money required to innovate and develop complex fields of work, the better we shall be as a species. I wish them luck!
I hope it would work too but if the entire world had the wealth of europe we would need 2 and half of earth to sustain so in terms of ecology and all that's not necessarily a good thing
@@roiiam hopefully, seeing as it is the 21st century and not the 1960s, the African model will include much more renewable resources. As ecological damage, and especially eco-system and diversity damage, is well understood in Africa - much more than any other place on earth, they have better opportunities to get it right.
OTOH, Africa has much less history and experience with democracy then Europe had before the advent of the union, and they are definitely starting with the wrong foot forward - so I don't actually have very high hopes for that to work out.
@@roiiam Well it's either one way or the other m people in Europe cannot constantly complain about immigration and at the same time say oh it wouldn't as sustanable if these countries get that developped
@@roiiam If Africa focuses on developing renewable sources of energy in this 21st century then there really isn’t a problem. Africa alone is hit with enough solar energy to power the whole world, and when you add into the fact that there are countless rivers in which hydroelectric power could be used and countless other sources of renewable energy within Africa then there really isn’t a problem. It really just relies on government incentives and strong institutions. Renewable energy is inevitable for everyone.
Yeah, lets imaging Wakanda is real...
I would love a TLDR Africa channel. I rarely hear about the progress being made there.
You answered your own question
yep so sparse but always a joy to see things moving in the right direction!
Yes it is always pleasant to have more people chatting. Chatting is much more fun than working
@@drkmccy progress is occurring.
thats because they rarely make progress
Best Luck Africa! : )
Greetings from germany
We should, from the EU, help them do this in any way we can. This would be such a great step for Africa.
LOL, NO. Enough money wasted on corrupt african dictators.
Yeah if so we can finally stop financial development help they keep asking for. And we can cut off the welfare of all those migrants here since they can go back and live better lives in their own countries by then.
Indeed. But as Marneus Calgar so... "delicatly" put it, we need to make sure that help doesn't go to dictators.
And that means oversight. And European oversight over Africa unfortunally rings som bad bells for all involved... X(
The dilemma of state building... It has to be made bottom-up to have popular support, but it is seldom there the necessary resources are. :(
Just like with the warring states of the European mainland, make them financially interdependent and in a few decades dictatorships don't seem so appealing anymore.
No!!!
I think it's biggest problem is it's starting too big. The EU (or it's previous incarnations) started much smaller with a much more modest set of goals and let itself grow organically from there. Seems like the AU is rushing to catch up and skipping the important early stages
a good think about not being the first at something is that all the ground work is already done for u, u need not discover everything.
africa doesn't need to invent electricity, cars, power grids, infrastructure etc, bc the world has invented all of that and that knowledge is readily available, what took 150 years to develop can be done in in just a few years by leveraging the knowledge that has accumulated.
what I want to say by this is that while the scale at which the african union is is much bigger than the EU it also is following a similar path therefore they need not try to reinvent the wheel they can leverage the knowledge that the EU has gotten from running itself and slowly adapt it for themselves. (tho I'm sure you'll find them making mistakes along the way)
It won't be a challenger to the EU but a partner. I'd love to hear more about the African currency they are planning. And yeah, TL;DR Africa would be awesome!
Remember Gaddafi 🙄🚮 the west is like a jealous crazy ex. Everytime we have a vision and pursue it your people just fuck it for us
If a European dollar is a euro is the African dollar an Afro
@@northerncricket5199 *currency
@@ditiromotene2582 i doubt it, europe and america are much more developed than africa so why would they care
@@ditiromotene2582 haha west bad rest of world good. Hahahahahaha funni. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHAHHAAH
So original. Thats so funny.
Like many here, I'd rather have the AU be a partner to the EU. Building a brighter future together would be nice.
Tldr Africa, I’d love to learn more about it and I like the format of your videos
i mentioned this before but check out the youtube page 2nacheki that covers that kinda topic, by African Journalists
@@potatopotatoeOG I’ll check them out thank you!
as a staunch Europeist, I would hope the EU and AU would one day be equal partners many economic and scientiffic affairs
Europedo
Same! Growing up I didn't know much about Africa. I thought its just a poor continent. That's what I have been told. But I have had the great privilege of working with several people from Africa who are incredibly smart, creative, and emotional people. I only wish to learn more from them :) Just look at the music, fashion, their positive attitude they bring :)
@KOSOVOsrb Bullshit... I am from East Europe, and here you find the most pro-EU population. Yeah, there are populist politicians who intoxicate stupid old peoples with fake nationalism, to preserve their corrupt privileges, but thats mostly old peoples ... they will be dead in 1-2-3 decades anyway.
@Universal Space Expeditioner Turkey doesn’t need to be erased. As an European I totally respect our Turkish neighbours, they are our partners and friends. Even though now the politic situation between us is bad we as people have to stand together
@Universal Space Expeditioner I know what they did in Cyprus. I was there last year and my girlfriend is from there. To put it friendly I‘m not a fan of Erdogan, but this doesn‘t mean I don‘t like Turks, they‘re as nice people as Greeks or Cypriots but to solve the conflictvin Cyprus you need Turkey if you want it or not. Cyprus has to be united and Turley has to leave the North, but I think this isn‘t impossible.
I wish this project goes well, the continent definitely needs it to become prosperous and to be competitive in the global playground. African people have so much potential.
African Union: "Can I copy your homework?"
European Union: "Sure, just make sure to change a few things"
African Union: "Alright"
I know it's just a joke, but actually the EU wouldn't mind at all if similar institutions emerge in imitation to her. Serving as a model, the EU can project her moral power and shape the world in her image.
NAYRUthunder99 the EU should have 0 moral power. The EU envisioned by Schuman is a set of independent countries who entered into a trade union and in exchange for having no protective tariffs and enabling free flow of work force and goods between each other deposit a set amount of money to each country with a surplus deposit to help underdeveloped countries.
It is and should by no means be an ideological block state because that is the moment it simply becomes the Soviet Union.
@@NAYRUthunder99 erhm. I wouldn't overestimate our moral power. And I doubt whether our image is worth it to be used to shape any kind of world.
The ideals of the EU are lofty ofc. But in practice, there is a lot of bad stuff happening. Often many EU-leaders speak strong words about it. But it remains words. Very little action.
A few of our less than desirable morals:
- The 'democracy' in Hungary and Poland
- The EU border guards pushing back boats/rafts with refugees, endangering the life of PEOPLE.
- The rise of egocentric/nationalist behavior (just look at why Brexit happened)
- The rise of the freedom of belittling and hurting others (aka the freedom of speech which gets used more and more as a way to willingly insult other people)
Our morals are lacking .... big time ......
Again. The ideals are good. But when push comes to shove ....
Regarding our institutions. The EU is trying to be democratic but has a long way to go.
Take for example how Ursula from the EVP got her job. What happened with Manfred Weber??? Is that democracy?
Anyways. I can fill more walls of text about this. But suffice to say that we shouldn't blow our horn too much.
PS: My post may sound gloom and doom but I am a happy member of the EU and wouldn't want to trade it for another country/union. The EU has its flaws but also many good sides.
@@newfieldcharlotte324 The EU would have been a proper country from the very beginning if it weren't for some states opposing it (a very quoted document of the time in favour of the political union was the Ventotene Manifesto, easy to find online if you're interested).
Also, there is this little fact that the Soviet Union was totalitarian, and that is the ONLY reason why it is now considered "evil", an example not to follow. Being a supranational entity or a sovereign entity is not bad per se; democracy is what matters.
NAYRUthunder99 thank God the EU never became a “proper country”. Europe and any continent is beautiful because of the diverse culture and the ability of their nations to have their own authority, traditions and identity. Europe will never be a unified nation, we will always retain our individuality, traditions, beliefs and self-sufficiency.
EU skepticism stems exactly from the fact that Brussel is becoming more and more hellbent of turning the EU into the United States of Europe with a Central leadership unified under a single ideology. The moment they try and push that through the Union will shatter and most sane countries in the South, Center and East Europe will leave.
Why did you frame this as a conpetition with the EU? Competition on what, ecactly?
Now picture this, instead: an EU-AU free trade deal..
Image also with Freedom of movement.
@@wakey87 I doubt that will happen before the UA would have similar development/wealth as the EU, but in the future, who knows.
I would personally love that, but I can't see this achieved in the long term, or possibly my life-time. On the other hand, agreeing on the same quality standards and a free trade deal is more likely.
@@wakey87 Hopefully not. Brain Drain would kill the AU.
Jup this is why the AU has to first become an equal to the EU which should also be a goal of the EU.
I really do not like you trying to position the AU as a competitor to the EU, instead I think they will/should be partners
We’ll have to see, as of now I’d say they’re more likely to be partners. But the inevitable rapid growth of africa impending can change the whole dynamic. Hopefully they become really strong partners though.
@@Junior-zf7yy fully concur, having a stable and prosperous Africa ‘next door’ will be to EU’s benefit just as well. An EU-AU partnership seems a worthy dream/goal indeed.
And you can do a free trade deal with the UK
@Sanic you are racist against the English then?
@@rspanditz7214 You act like spoiled brats, so we treat you like spoiled brats. Racism has nothing to do with it.
I think the bigest hurdle for the african union is the increase of democratic participation. It has declared an aim, but at least in my understanding, it does not have any means to further that end.
I think it absolutely does. Lets not forget how AU forces marched towards The Gambia not too long ago to force out of power the president who didnt want to step down after losing an election.
@@tiaelago-oretukaumunika7017 There we are talking about a democratic state, but what about furthering democracy within dictatorships?
Doesn't a lot of the African borders stem from colonial days with really random borders that don't fit the people living there?
I guess if the go the USA route and unite as Africans that could work?
I don't know seems like a complicated problem to solve.
@@snacksy7754 At this point a considerable amount of the borders have shifted. While the Post colonial borders have been especially bad, there is no easy solution, as a lot of the regions have mixed ethnics.
The "American way" isn´t really a solution, Amerikas federal construct left most power with the federal states, to which the Americans had a far stronger conection. The change to a truly united country (exept from partisanship) took over a hundred years.
Also most people do not identify as much with a country as with their ethnic groups, so a federal system does not realy solve the divide and suppression.
@@claasmachens3858 A lot of African countries are inching towards democracy there are less dictators than there were in the 90s progress is occurring.
Not rivals, I want them to be our partners!
Right! Like stop making it an Us against them sort of thing
**Eurafrasian Union intensifies**
@@_extrathicc Old World strikes back, babes!
@@_extrathicc last time europe and africa did something like that bad things happened
Same
I am amazed that you didn’t contemplate potential names of a unified African currency! The Afro?
Afaik that's the name, not kidding.
Euro 2.0
1 l of water
It was to be called the Gold Dinar, backed by gold instead of being fiat money. Proposed by Gaddafi. He’s now dead
The Afro
I'd love a video on the EU-AU collaborations that have already happened, in contrast to speculating whether they may be "rivals" in the future.
those collaborations benefit EU at Africans expense in general. Such a video, if honest, would be discouraging.
@@benjaminlamptey1867 If that is true, I would still want to know it, and a discouraging tone could be compensated for by framing the analysis in terms of what went wrong and how to do it differently in the future.
@@WolfDGreyJr that's an excellent way to look at it.
For the first time I’m kind of excited about that African passport I got through my immigrant father. Looking forward to the AFRO (the currency) and free movement of people, capital and services in the coming years!🤞
AFRO is actually a cool name for a currency. The Afro, the Euro, sounds cool.
It's going to become awesome, like South Africa or Rodhesia have become.
@@marneus sorry, Rhodesia? We’re taking about real countries here, not ones you’ve made up
@@marneus Oh. The racist cesspits of the past? Ah yes. Great lands they were.
@@dark_messiah8183 Still more real than Wakanda.
I think it’s goals are inspiring and I hope it comes to pass one day.
I've been looking for a video like this for a while now. Thank you.
Wait, Africa isnt all just one country?
-Americans watching
Any most Europeans.
wasn't it discovered that the chinese planted bugs in the building they helped to build?
yeah, i remember something like that.
Wtf fr? I'm not surprised
Normie PFP
@Lilith does stuff it will the politicians there dont care
oh they probably did. no one is surprised or bothered at this point.
This is really exciting for the continent and the world as a whole! With this I could totally see the African continent becoming a major world player in the future, of course if the hard work is put in to make this project work! Wishing them all the luck.
As a libyan i wish all the good luck and amazing life for africans and the whole world..love africa..don't hate it ❤️
hope you the best in libya, Ghaddafi in our country is regarded as a hero to the public while our politicans took big bucks from the UK to turn a blind eye, the only man to ever support irish unification before our very own people.
Thanks ❤
The past century should've taught us already that the situation with 2 - 3 global "superpowers" and a number of small independent nations is really not sustainable. Organizations like EU, AU or ASEAN are necessary just as a balancing act.
Disagree. The EU sucks.
@@kamanashiskar9203 Wow, another dramatic baseless opinion... how pathetic.
organisations like that eventually want to become dictators and will chokehold the smaller states. the eu is just a globalist ploy to make a european identity and erase smaller nations
@@juniorcrusher2245 I suggest you ease up on the conspiracy theories there bud. 😂
@@dianamaioru497 conspiracy theory? The eu started as a union which allowed coal to be fee free and goods to be free of tariffs between members. Now the council is talking about a european army and unification of european union into one nation. If yih actually cant see this youre blind
A parallel to the EU in africa is fundamental to the stabilization of the continent which is essential to break the emigration crisis. More over a similar istirution to the EU close to the bordes may proove to be an essential future ally.
Sadly, the EU doesn't want to close the borders. In fact, Guy Verhofstadt still thinks individual member states don't let in enough immigrants. And the EU surely doesn't ship them in to help them or the countries they come from. Most immigrants here are economical immigrants aka luck seekers who want to leech off of our welfare systems. The EU hopes to create "the New European" by making Europe extremely demographically diverse. The EU also knows that they don't work well because of the cultural diversity within Europe. That is why they apply cultural Marxism and political correctness to rewrite cultures and traditions until everything is equally meaningless. That way everybody will be the same, so everybody will be easily overruled... By the EU.
@@Ned-nw6ge You misread my comment. I never said to close the borders. I said it would be nice have a potential strong ally as a neighbour. Also closing borders is dumb because it's inneficient. The solution would be to integrate immigrants in our work place while working on stabilizing their geopolitical area of origin as to gradually and naturally decrease the flow of migratory currents that is present because of the caos that reigns their native territories. In other words if you solve the problem at the source you solve the problem. If there are no crisis in africa immigrstion will decrease once and for all otherwhise we will forever be stuck with it. Hell immigation could also be a benefit if dealt with properly as if grants a brand new work force for the country. Italy for example depends on tax paying immigrants which hold most of our agricultural jobs without them we would go bankrupt.
@PigeRævehale it really is. Nothing to do with morals, it's a simple fact that immigrants who pay taxes are extremly beneficial and take those key jobs that other people would not take. They are key to many economies.
@@amanwearingsuspenders7390 polls suggest people aren't actually concerned with the economics of migration but by issues with cultural integration
I sincerely wish them the best. These types of Unions are the future.
UK: blinking in the dark.
For a dystopian future that is.
@@rettenthetetlen8759 The EU was making us a poor nation, not a rich one.
@@kamanashiskar9203 And the brexit making the rich richest.
Why do you come up with something like being rich? Is that the opposite of poor?
For me is average, decent life the opposite of poor. My life is average and I'm happy with it.
I have no degree, so I will not have a fat salary. It's my fault. If you cannot live an average life in the UK which is among the richest counties in the world. That's simply your fault.
@@rettenthetetlen8759
Well, the EU's goal was to end our tax haven empire which provided a lot of income for us. Also, making the rich richer is the UK's business, that's why we own so many tax havens that the EU didn't like. That's why we went Brexit and quitted this socialist union.
The AU will be a force to reckon with. Giving the incredible amounts of natural resources.. strength lays in unity. A united Africa will benefit the globe
Wow never knew this even existed. Would love to know more about it
This is really informative and helpful. Could you please do a video about NAFTA?
Why challlenger? A strong, effective, and democratic African Union would be a partner and equal of the European Union.
Uff, after all these years of terror and slavery, I honestly wish the African people a union which provides them the same amount of wealth and security that the EU does.
Populist movement in Africa could very well use the hard history between the two continents to fuel their base. I hope it doesn't happen and that two organisation can work together but that's a possibility
Challenger because a united Africa would be a major power, bigger than Russia, probably in pair with India, right south of the European coast.
@@FOLIPE True, even bigger than India, according to economic forecasts - but why challenger? The EU and Japan are partners, though competing in a constructive way. A democratic, wealthy, united African continent would eb the greatest democratic force in the world. A great partner and ally against all dictators and illiberal regimes!
Thank for the information
Thank you, nicely explained and straight to the point 👌🏽
as someone who lives in Africa, the body is so incompetent and ceremonial, it i forgot it existed until this video came up in my feed, and im in tune with african politics.
Its a waste of time. the problem is member states consistently collapse into civil war and the countries dont have enough money to sustain a joint economic policy.
Political parties are either one sided, or elections in africa are formalities, with few exceptions but those exceptions often lead to war
It is hard to unite Morocco to South Africa and Kenya to Ivory Coast. Europe does it because it's just a peninsula of Eurasia, but who would think an Eurasian Union from Portugal to Japan and from Iceland to Java would work out any time soon?
I wonder if 55 members is too much to actually get a good Union started. It seems better to let a handful of successful states start the Union and slowly expend on that. I'm not even sure if the EU could handle 55 members.
It is hard even now whem we look at poland and hungary few contries can block so much
@@Leicht_Sinn Yes that's one example. Though I do think that example is less about a high number of members and more about accepting members who were not aligned to begin with, which of course is also a problem in the African Union.
There are already smaller unions in Africa by region.
@@Leicht_Sinn because the eu is infringing on polands and hungarys rights
@@juniorcrusher2245 yes, how dare the EU say Hungary can't make the High Court have mandatory retirement so our great leader can appoint people he likes and has leverage over to high positions and Poland can't take away their citizens rights in favor of their religious view, where is our freedom to be dubious (not so)secular democracies
Some of my former libyan colleagues are in germany now as petrol engineers or drilling engineers f.e. I worked with a guy from cameroon who did his phD study at the company. He was planning for a big position in the cameroon oil industry. Best wishes.
TLDR Africa/AU sounds like a great channel
When mentioning the portuguese colonies you forgot Cape Verde 😬👀
Nice video though!
Please do a video on the East African federation as a follow-up to this one.
This was a great video actually. Any chance you would do one like this about ASEAN and Mercosur?
thanks for the explanation!
It’s all good having this discussion and setting out the goals. But action speaks louder than words. And it seems African leaders aren’t really pushing for it as much as I would have hoped. The establishment of a proper African Union and prioritization of inter-African trade with a common currency could be the spark that sets Africa free from the shackles of poverty.
Rest in peace my HERO Ghadafi 👍🏽🙏, the people of Libia will regret it for ever,
Can't believe you missed Cape Verde. I'm heartbroken :sob:
Really enjoyed the video and would love a separate channel for the African Union states. Just a correction though as a South African. Despite Afrikaans being a dutch daughter-language and therefore Js being pronounced like Ys, Johannesburg is pronounced JOE-hannesburg not YO-hannesburg.
Africa: Leave us alone!
Europe: What are you Crazy HELL NO!
Really hope the people there finally get some stability and begin to prosper. It's ridiculous to think that what I spend in a day people there stretch over a month. Price adjustments still don't even make it close.
many places there don't even have the crap roads the Balkan states have. Roads and sanitary cost a lot in taxes.
"Addis Abda" at 6:16 was a hilarious pronounciation. But a very nice video!
Good documentary 💗
can you do a video about why Bulgaria blocked North Macedonia from joining the EU
Why did they block them?
Wasn't Greece who did that?
@@xx__xx3076 Yeah 2 years ago but they solved the name dispute. Now it’s Bulgaria blocking them
@@gre894 Why?
I thought it was France? With some stuff about fiscal policy?
I'm from South Africa and we want a LTDR BADGE👍😂😂😂🇿🇦
Nah I don't want to be part of the African union. We alrehave enough people to deal with we don't need more.
It’s TLDR...
More coverage of Africa please!
Fantastic News, Great to see the countries of Africa working together.
1:53 Where is Cape Verde? It was a Portuguese colony too.
It could be considered an accomplishment of the EU that their unique system inspires other regions.
Most new states often look at other states and copy their system (e.g. Australia which has a Westminster and US style of system), and the system of the EU was created completely by scratch without any outside influence. And now the African Union wants to copy it.
It would prouve that Europe is on the right track. But there’s still a very long and hard way ahead
can't wait for TLDR AU
Thanks for the video. I feel like I'm back in Class 7 History class.
Should have mentioned the main differences. Right now there are 5 different economic blocs in different stages of integration within the continent. Its the first stage in order to move to the wided AU. Africs is the most diverse continent. A single institution can not address the problems the same way the EU does. The motives are different.
I would love more AU content
Still a long way to go but it's a start. At least it's a platform for countries to come together and talk things through, that's a good start. Wish them all the best.
Africa seems to diverse to be under one single union with all the different ethnic groups and religious beliefs and language and so on
No mention of how the AU charter provides for the establishment of the African Space Agency? for shame! Sure, it's not an active thing, but the AU does have a space agency built into its structure :)
as long as corruption and inequality is as rampant as it is in africa im afraid it will forever be a struggle.
@Jo are you kidding? Third world countries (and africa in particular) are well known to have big inequality. google worldbank GINI index. And yes i wrote a thesis on the subject for my master at uni.
I hope that we, europeans and africans can work together, not compete with eachother
Great video and source.
Quick question, how does the election work with AU? Who chooses the chairman? Not sure if you answered that question...
I would love to see it become as successful as the EU, but very much doubt it will, at least not in this century anyway.
@@YBehri Different situations Korea used the boom of electronics and cars to catapult them into a better economic stance . Morocco can do the same with potassium and vertical farming but i don't think your government would care about.
God I wish they reach these goals
This sounds so great for Africa, so much more effective and lasting than some NGOs trying to save some people
I hope it goes well for them
The AU seems to, in practice, work more like the UN than the EU. And that is natural as Africa is very diverse, and for a deeper union you need to have a good socioeconomic starting point which Africa is mostly still developing, and also local regionalized unions which Africa also has.
Agreed, the EU is built on somewhat common values while the AU has both democracies and dictatorships in it
As the majority of people here have said already: I wish the best for the AU and pray that they grow into a prosperous union and grow into a major player in the world stage.
As many do, I also wish peace, prosperity and union for Africa. Though, Africa would have to take care of the peace part first as Europe did after WWII. For the foreseeable future, I strongly doubt AU would be a competition to EU or other political, economic unions at the moment. Does it have potential? Heck yes. =)
Pretty loaded questions at the end
VisualPolitik did a video on the AU a while back, and their whole emphasis was on how there was currently too much economic protectionism between members, and lowering barriers to increase trade between African nations was a necessarily first step before you can succeed with stuff like a unified currency. VP is very fixated on free trade, of course, so it's no surprise that was their focus, but I was still kind of surprised it didn't get brought up at all here.
"God Bless Africa"
Best of luck to them. If small countries want clout in this world they need to stick together and stand as one against the other trade blocs and big economies such as America, China and the EU. Unless you are a big country with a large population like China, India or America it doesn't pay to go it alone because you will just get picked off.
Please more videos about Africa!!! I always feel painfully ignorant about what's happening on the continent.
Good synopsis. Please have a look into the Chagos Islands , Africa’s last British Colony counting decolonisation!
If they manage to pull the process of fully establishing the AU off, then I think it might be able to become the non identical twin of the EU and while a lot of capitalistic motivated people will start to whine and produce a lot of crocodile tears, this will ultimately bring prosperity to African people, across all of Africa. This is certainly the much needed step into the right direction and I hope that they tell the rest of the world where they can shove their "capitalistic colonialism" while participating in negotiations on equal footing with global players, but hopefully not just like the EU, they forget the weight they have and only throw it at smaller powers, not keeping those in check they are on equal footing with.
actually, I would say that the major players in the Au have to play after capitalist rules. The only thing which would be lost would be modern colonialism. There would be still poor and oppressed people.
7:10 The EU members not willing to finance the EU? Sorry, but this is just wrong.
I think he says that while the EU members fund the EU, the AU members aren't interested in funding the AU, which seeing all of them are still developing isn't really a surprise.
Maybe the EU helping them out on that front might help relations (long term) and ofcourse pave a way to a stable southern partner. Then again EU citizens might start to complain and AU nations might prefer to money being directly given in national aid. But I personally do think it might be a smart move.
@@MDP1702 Indeed, there will likely be people against the EU helping out. Even though getting the AU to succeed sounds like a great investment in the long run. Helping Africa to be really independent, rather than continuously paying into developmental aid, sounds like a no-brainer. And in the end, if Africa does become wealthy and independent, that sounds like a great next-door marketplace for EU trade, so the EU is likely to profit as well in that regard.
And that's just looking at it from an economic / capitalistic viewpoint, from a moral viewpoint, it is even more of a big win. And maybe you could even speak of a dept that European countries will have to be willing to pay, considering all they profited of Africa in the past, and for a lot of things actually still do, while leaving Africa without any gains from that (and that's putting Europe's past-influence on Africa in the least negative way I can think of).
@@MySonBand But than again, I did not plunder Africa and so did all the people I know, so something like that may not go down well with the taxpayer. I as a German think that to many Problems in Africa are placed on outside influence which is to be honest a really immature way to do politics, if I would be African I would feel insulted when people would tell me that my home country can only develop through the pity of former Colonial Nations. Yes I know Germany is doing damage to African economy’s by having for example a strong meat export industry which can flood Lokal markets, but in my mind something like this needs to be solved locally not through foreign intervention, which has not a good track record, besides Nazi Germany of course. The whole point of the AU is to strengthen African independence and more importantly self determination, as well as promote unity. A formal Apology would already go a long way.
@@cedrickropp While neither you, nor I, contributed to the plundering of Africa (and do note this plundering is still taking place, only now it is corporations instead of countries doing the plundering, look at the extraction of rare minerals, diamonds, oil, etc. and where all the gains of that end up), you can't deny the gains the former colonizers made from their plundering. So in that way we are all gaining from the past plundering. I'm not saying that makes us complicit in or guilty of it, I'm just stating that we do have gained a lot from it. So is it then unfair to also have to pay something back at a later time.
I do see that this argument is an uphill struggle, especially in the current populist-nationalist-right-wing climate.
That said, I do agree with your main argument, and that's exactly why I think the EU should help the AU. As indeed its intent is to help create a more independent Africa. And I don't think Africa will be the only one to gain, once that goal has been reached, for example the European trade will likely increase, because of increased demand for more expensive, European, products in Africa, as has been the case with demand for European products in China.
Next to that if the goal of the AU is met, the EU can at least limit, but maybe even stop, the continuous trickle of developmental aid, which as you said, doesn't really appear to be helping all that much. Or in some cases even hurting when the money is used to finance European companies, which end up competing with small local suppliers.
So indeed, the aid I would imagine the EU would be able to give to the AU would be instead of that developmental aid (for as much as humanely possible), and next to that much more in non-monetary aid. So that means helping out with best-practices, advice, sharing knowledge, etc. of how to organize such a multi-national organization. And then indeed, allowing the African people to pour their own little sauce over it, as in the end they would know what really is best for their unique circumstances. That way, I don't see it as foreign intervention, but as actually helping out.
Did you miss the last 4 years? The Netherlands Denmark and others have forced the EU to reduce its budget following the exit of the UK. The EUs plan was just to take more from the rich countries to fill the gap.
Please make a South Africa pin! Heck, please make Africa and African Nations pins. I've been dying to buy one!
I hope it works. When the new start for AU was done in 1999 there were at least 30 conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, that was disrupting enough to have made world headlines if they had occurred anywhere else in the World. That is not an Africa we want back. We want a peaceful Africa, a prosperous Africa, An Africa that can rid itself from reliance on the new colonial power, the PRC.
I hope the AU wont fail. I also hope the EU will help the AU when the AU ask for it. I believe the AU would make the continent of africa really flourish. I also believe that this is a positive thing that should be encouraged by all world leaders.
TLDR News AF Coming soon?
Shouldn't *AU* be better... cause I read it as As Fuck, at first
@@quidam_surprise yeah that might be the better title, would be very interesting tho
@@quidam_surprise that tends to default to Australia or Austria for many people though.
@@GlennWolfschoon
Oh right 😮... Well then, it could be :
- 🌍 African Union : AF, Af, AfU or AU
- 🇦🇺 Australia : AU, AUS or OZ
- 🇦🇹 Austria : AU or AUS or *OR*
However, the subjects pertaining to Austrian politics are already discussed on this very channel.
But I guess we all gonna have to think about these distinctions in the future.
Guys... I think it's happening.
Will TLDR create a TLDR AU? If so I would love that and I would love to be part of it if you need help with research!
1:46 you forgot Cape Verde
As European Citizen I wish that the EU and AU works more together to get independency from the USA and China
100%
The United States literally has had almost no influence on Africa. The only colony was Liberia and it was the first independent nation on the continent besides Ethiopia. Europe on the other hand had a big impact on the continent and European countries still exploit African countries, just under the name of private companies. China is stepping in now by building infrastructure like the light rail in Addis Ababa, no doubt. But if the world needs a break from something, then definitely from Europe.
We need to stop victimizing Europe when we can clearly see what happened in the past. It wasn't the United States that started two world wars and it wasn’t the United States that colonized an absurd amount of land.
As African citizen from Sao Tome and Principe I hate Europe specifically France
Man in Town only a few Europeans know that, most love you because they are naive sheltered confused socialists
EU and AU are independend already ... what exactly are you talking about ?
Good guy Gaddafi
Get ready for tldr AU
Very interesting. There is a similar case with Mercosur where the EU is seen as a model
please do a tldr africa!
I'm from South Africa and I would absolutely love this
@Jacob L Have you even been to africa
Loving the naïve takes that the EU is interested in building up the capacity of the AU.
@@YBehri I don't kniow much about that but that was called for by a vote of the UN Security Council, where not a single country was opposed to the intervention. Five countries abstained. Nigeria and South Africa both voted FOR the intervention. I don't know what was bad or good about Gaddafi, but this makes me think that it was for a reason. How good a reason? I don't know.
The AU is actually very active in its operations and support in uniting African countries. They also play an important role in peace keeping missions around war torns parts of the continent. They are also encouraging unity and cooperation through dialogue. E.g. Earlier this year leaders of Egypt 🇪🇬 and Ethopia 🇪🇹 met through the AU to negotiate and try to find common ground pertaining to their disagreements about the Ethopia dam.
TLDR News AU would be nice!