First, I think we can benefit from H.E Sekou Toure's theory that culture is the sum total of a people's experience. By this definition, we cannot create culture. That is, no one person can create culture. It takes a people, a collective effort. It fact, it is created by the people whether we make an effort or not. Culture is un-avoidable. This is why I do not place a great deal of emphaisis on culture as such. Leave that to the anthropologists. What concerns me is politics and economics, the well-being and the best intersts of Africans. By addressing ourselves to these matters, culture in the inevitable result.

Our problems as ASfricans is that we have been brain-washed to avoid politics and economics. This is how and why we were enslaved and colonized. By neglecting politics and economics, we have developed a culture of cowardice and laziness. On the other hand, it is by solving our political and economic problems that we shall develop culturally.

Our major political problem is our lack of Unity. Thus, to creatye culture, good and positive culture, we must work politically to Unify Africa. Unity is dialectiacally linked to Development. We cannot have one without the other. Thus, to acheive African Unity, we must develop economically. Thus, we shall create a culture based on African Unity. Bantus will becaome a part of an African culture, a Continental culture, that includes Somalis, Berbers and Arabs. etc. At the same time, the resources of the Arabs, of the Bantus, of the Berbers, of the Amaharics, etc willbe harnessed and pooled together into a central pot from which the whole of Africa can benefit economically. Be clear about this: Unity is for the purpose of development, and vice versa.

A good place to start, perhaps the best place to start, is to build the All-African People's Revolutionary Army. By looking at this example, we can see that by creating Continental culture we do not destroy any lacal cultures as some would have us believe. For instance, the AAPRA would consist of a western sector, an eastern sector, a northern sector, a sountern sector and perhaps a central sector. Each of these would consist of brigades which in term will be sub-divdided into divisions, regiments, batallions and so on, down to small guerrilla units consisting of two-three individuals.

At the battallion level, for instance, we would have companies and platoons that consist of recruits from all four-five sectors. Thus, each batallion would have formations consisting of Arabs, Berbers, Bantus Amaharics, and so forth. All five sectors would have representation form all over Africa. Therefore, no one tribe or ethnic group could amass military power to dominate or oppression any other group. Every batallion would represent the whole of Africa. Every recruit would take an oath to defend African Unity.

In practical terms, this means that every batallion would be a micocosma of Africa. Thus, each batallion would create a culture that is a mcrocosma of African culture. When the soldiers return home to their families and tribes, they will carry with them the Good News of African Unity. Thus, the tribalism, and racism that we see now in Africa would give way to a culture of Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africasnism is our culture and Pan-Africanism is the culture that we are creating. It exists already, yet it is still coming into existance.