The hardest part has been for Europe, after americas through British' dominion succeeding in coming together and opted to remain united under federalism... Africa throughout history has had similar tribulations to the point of building major integrated and unified systems of governance which over time have eroded for many reasons...
Today Africa has the Political vision for integration, the demographic shift (youth willing and able) to harness the workforce potential, and address the surrounding market predatory practices taking advantage of the lack of coordinated policy framework across the Continent...
To date existing regional integration bodies can still experience the gap between the challenges ahead and the resources needed to overcome the scourges... but as well, one has to admit that brain drain is yet another issue crippling the continent... a common sense reasoning okaying the notion that if Europe and Americas can afford to pay for Africans' "brains" through education, why not serving their institutions in return on the spot...Knowing for sure that African regional institutions can afford same investment proportions in their Human Resources, the question becomes why not to date no bold commitment has ever been made on that note.
Similarly, this GIP CoP has demonstrated well seasoned expert'insights over the many debates brought forth herein, and then the question becomes, why not engaging hands on with this few online experts community hereby and translate combined approaches to actionable workplans...
The ball is in the court of the regional institutions... the proof is the pudding.