United States of Latin Africa

, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810965,00.html?promoid=googlep Death of a Strongman] , April 13, 1959] Many economists who today strongly advocate the creation of such a union of countries which would constitute a powerful market and create a more viable infrastructure for sustainable internal development and international trade.Fact|date=November 2007

The idea of United States of Latin Africa was criticised by Richard Wright in a special introduction to French readers of a translation of his book "White Man, Listen!", on the bases that Latin Africa meant Catholic Africa and that it would create a religious division against secular English speaking Africa which he called Protestant Africa. According to Richard these ideas reflected only the attitudes of those Africans educated in France or England, the dominant European powers of that time. He called instead for a Pan-African approach. [ R. Wright, « To French Readers », Mississipi Quarterly, 42, 4, 1989 (Automne) {1959}]

ee also

* Latin Africa
* Pan-African Federation

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