CAPE TOWN // It is a curious coincidence that, with the UK vote on membership of the European Union next month, the future of the bloc is uncertain when some in Africa lament the implementation of similar regional trade alignments at home. "We really have not become integrated as an African people into a real union," said the Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe a couple of years ago, referring to the African Union (AU). "And this is the worry, which my brother has, and the worry I have; the worry perhaps others also have. That we are not yet at that stage which was foretold by our fathers when they created this organisation," . The former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was also a vocal proponent...
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