What has been the block to pan africanism? If your initial analysis is correct it savages your proposed solution.
[WS:] It was not a solution but a thought experiment. The problem, as I see it, is structural contradictions of African states that make investment very difficult. I do not really know how to solve that problem - the Hobbesian idea that I proposed was just one possible approach, especially that pan-Africanism was once quite popular among intellectual elites of that continent. But I am all ears to other proposals.
Wojtek