According to the paper, the set goal of the new structure is to revive the ideal of panafricanism across the continent through the establishment, as early as 2009, of a university of the United States of Africa in Bamako and the boosting of the Conference of African Peoples initiated in December 1957 by Ghana's then Prime Minister, Kwame N'Krumah.
When established, the body will also push for the payment of reparations to Africa for the damage caused by colonialism and slavery and will work towards the redefinition of criteria that will help select countries that will represent Africa in major international institutions.
Two former collaborators of Mr. Konaré are actively working in that direction -- Adam Thiam, his former spokesman at the AU, and now political chronicler at the paper Le Républicain published in Bamako and Ibrahima Samba, better known under the nickname of "Archi", former leader of the students movement in France and mem b er of the Allaince for Democracy in Mali (ADEMA), a party which Konaré chaired,
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