The United States of Africa is a hypothetical concept of a

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of some or all of the 54

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s and two

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on the continent of

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. The concept takes its origin from

Marcus Garvey Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African ...

's 1924 poem " Hail, United States of Africa".

Origins

The idea of a multinational unifying African state has been compared to various medieval African empires, including the

Ethiopian Empire The Ethiopian Empire (), also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or just simply known as Ethiopia (; Amharic and Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ , , Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: ''Itiyoophiyaa''), was an empire that histori ...

, the

Ghana Empire The Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadou ( ar, غانا) or Awkar, was a West African empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali that existed from c. 300 until 1100. The Empire was founded by the Soninke people, an ...

, the Mali Empire, the

Songhai Empire The Songhai Empire (also transliterated as Songhay) was a state that dominated the western Sahel/Sudan in the 15th and 16th century. At its peak, it was one of the largest states in African history. The state is known by its historiographical ...

, the Benin Empire, the

Kanem Empire Kanem may refer to: * Kanem–Bornu Empire, existed in modern Chad and Nigeria known to Arabian geographers from the 9th century AD onward and lasted as the independent kingdom of Bornu until 1900 * Kanem Prefecture, of former prefectures of Chad * ...

, the

and other historic nation states. During the late 19th and early 20th century the majority of African land was controlled by various European empires, with the

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controlling around 30 percent of the African population at its peak. The term "United States of Africa" was mentioned first by

in his poem ''Hail, United States of Africa'' in 1924. Garvey's ideas and formation systems deeply influenced former Africa leaders and the rebirth of the African Union.

2009–2011 proposals

In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union in Ethiopia, Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: "I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa." The

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Origins

2009–2011 proposals

After the death of Gaddafi

National views

Demographics

In fiction

See also

References