Given that Africa accounts for 4% of world trade and 1% of global manufacturing, Nigeria's forthcoming elections should be about consolidation. Unless we pool our resources, our continent will remain poor and beggarly. I await a foreign policy outlook

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria will seek to build a global superpower in the middle of the African continent that will serve as a homeland for negroid people the world over. It will be the spiritual and ancestral home of all negroes

[2] This nation will merge as many African countries as possible into one giant with an economy that has a GDP of at least $15trn and an annual budget of at least $2trn

[3] Any negroid person on earth who wants to, will be granted automatic citizenship of this nation which shall be named Songhai. Abuja will be its capital city

[4] Any negro person who suffers discrimination or ill-treatment anywhere in earth will be welcome to relocate to Songhai on a permanent basis

[5] Songhai shall start off as an amalgamation of Nigeria, Niger Republic, Cameroon and Benin Republic. It will aim to produce at least one third of the world’s industrial goods

[6] Songhai shall aim to account for about 50% of global food production

[7] Given that about 80% of the current Niger Republic is in the Sahara Desert, Songhai shall build the world’s largest solar farm in it. Songhai shall be responsible for providing electricity across the African continent and possibly beyond

[8] Our Contract With the Negro shall be signed by 55 black leaders worldwide and have the same status as say the Human Bill of Rights

[9] Songhai shall be self-reliant in everything. Obviously it will trade with other nations but only because it is more cost-effective to import some goods. As a principle, Songhai must be able to manufacture all its domestic needs

[10] Should negro people be maltreated anywhere on earth, Songhai will have the unilateral right to intervene and airlift them out. It will also have the right to deploy troops there to defend them