Pan-African Pre-Referendum

The idea of a Pan-African referendum to unite Africa in order to relieve the African people from today's widespread crisis and devastating conflicts was launched in Cameroon in January 1992 by the OAU Club-Cameroon. Since then, it has made its way in Africa and among Africans in Europe and America. The idea is supported by an increasing number of associations, non-governmental organizations, institutions and personalities. The recent OAU Declaration of Sirte on the creation of an African Union has established the best possible framework to promote the Pan-African Referendum. The present pre-referendum campaign is aimed at collecting millions of signatures to persuade African Governments to organize the first Pan-African Referendum on the establishment of the United States of Africa, on the basis of the Draft Constitution proposed by the African civil society. The campaign also supports the immediate setting up by the OAU of a Pan-African Army to restore a permanent peace on the continent. All the signatures collected will be transmitted to the African Heads of State and Government through the General Secretariat of the OAU. The Steering Committee is hereby calling on each and every African, aged 18 and above, to take a historic Pan-African commitment in the terms stipulated below.

Your commitment will be materialized by your e-mail identification as indicated below. We will attribute to each of you a unique number to symbolize and materialize your signature immediately as it is in our possession.

We will also see to it that the Secretary General of the OAU reports the signatures received from us to the Council of Ministers of the Organization and particularly to the coming OAU Summit.

We request that you indicate, after having signed, if you wish your name to be cited as an example of signatories to encourage other Africans to do the same. The indication will consist of underlining your name and surname(s), age and profession.

Thank you very much for your contribution to the birth of the United States of Africa.

Commitment to vote "YES for the United States of Africa"

In order that the African people may be relieved from today's multifarious and overwhelming poverty so as to live in peace and prosperity, I pledge to participate in the process of uniting Africa politically and economically, before the year 2005, by transforming the OAU into a Confederation comprising among other institutions, an Assembly of Heads of State and Government, already in place, a Pan-African Parliament, a Pan-African Court of Justice, a Continental Government, a single Continental Market with a Common Currency(AFRI), a Common Defense System, to be instituted immediately, an African Civil Society Organization, etc. Consequently, I shall vote and help vote "YES for the United States of Africa" at the Pan-African Referendum to be organized on this issue.

Having read and understood the Draft Constitution of the United States of Africa proposed by the African civil society, and the above commitment formula,