Re-branded AU has failed to live up to its promise of a hopeful continent

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Nor should you put old wine in a new bottle and think it will taste different. The adage is that you can’t keep on doing the same thing — over and over again — and expect different results. Today, I’m not proud to be an African.

That’s because the African Union has confirmed that it’s still the Organisation of African Unity. That’s right — the OAU isn’t defunct. No sir — it’s been reincarnated in the person of Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe. Get this — the AU elected Mr Mugabe its chairman at the recently-concluded summit in Addis Ababa. Every African must be ashamed that Mr Mugabe, a catastrophic ruler, now sits atop the AU.