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Don't copy the European Union, African leaders warned

A group of African law-makers have been warned about the dangers of trying to emulate the European Union.  As a model of regional co-operation, EU-type supranationalism would be a "recipe for disaster".

Speaking to the East African Legislative Assembly, Prof. Mahmood Mamdani has urged African leaders to avoid the European model of regional integration. 

Warning Africans about the dangers of handing over their national sovereignty to supranational bodies, Prof Mamdani said Europe had been in the economic slow lane once national governments lost sovereignty over their national currency and handed over policy making to unaccountable regional bodies.

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