Recommendation on the solution on the creation of the University of Africa

Jurisdiction: African Union (AU)
Date: 31 December 2005
Language: English
Type: Recommendation

African Union

Recommendation on the solution on the creation of the University of Africa

Published on 31 December 2005
Commenced
[This is the version of this document from 31 December 2005.]
[The publication date of this work could not be ascertained. We used the date 31 December 2005 because the work was published during the course of the year 2005.]

CONSIDERING paragraph 2 of the final Communiqué of the Conference on Education for the Liberation of Africa held in Sebha, in the Great Jamahiriya from 20 to 25 March 1988;CONVINCED that the building of the African Union is the very will of the peoples above all;CONSIDERING the challenges facing Africa in the framework of changes which have taken place in the international arena, making the African people face up to their problems;CONVINCED of the importance of an education and research consultative institutions on the African continent;TAKING into account the experience acquired by similar regional and international institutions, notably the United Nations University, the European University and the positive impact of these universities' activities;

THEREFORE RECOMMENDS;The creation of the University of Africa that will have as its mission:

1.helping carry out the objectives and principles of the African Union;

2.making available a unified science platform on the African continent which is a centre of expertise for the African Union for scientific consultations, benefiting from African experiences and saving Africa from brain drain;

3.supporting a unified African solidarity to create a feeling for the continent resting on a common destiny;

4.promoting a unified African spirit entrenching the vision of the African Union;

5.empowering political, administrative, cultural, economic and scientific leaders amongst those convinced of the unity of the African spirit with a view to building the African Union and leading to the establishment of a United States of Africa;

6.co-ordinating African research centre activities regroup African experiences in the different discipline for the development of the continent;

7.co-operating with regional and international educational research institutions so as to benefit from aids given by these institutions;

8.identifying the challenges facing the future of Africa and make recommendations relating to the African Union;

9.developing programmes likely to make African identity concepts a reality and guarantee the acceleration of the necessary integration to bring about a unified Africa with a single image.

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