*It’s a disgrace that 70% of the $650 million annual budget of African Union is funded by Europeans. When the foreigners fund us, they are ‘development partners’. Then tomorrow they are ‘colonizers and imperialists’. We have to be serious. It’s either we have an African Union and fund it, or we all go home*- Mo Ibrahim, Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation The Question: why would African countries not fund the AU Commission? The African mentality of dependency on the “kindness”of strangers is really tragic. China funded the construction of the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa. It was later reportedly discovered to have been comprehensively bugged!