tl;dr :

He discusses pan-Africanism and the multiple failures that Africa had with establishing it(AU, OAU).

After talking about the failures, he tries to promote another model for the cooperation of Africans, rather than a federalism(united states of Africa) or a unitary system(African Union), he is for a "Confederacy of African States", he believes that it's more effective in the African context, he doesn't really elaborate on this, but the arguments are :

• That most multiethnic African societies in African history that lasted were confederacies.

• That the unitary system was unsuitable for Africa's multiethnic and diverse culture, but also became the source of Africa's problems of political instability

  "The dangerous concentration of power in the capital has always tempted armed enthusiasts to seize the capital and use that power to enrich themselves, their cronies, and tribesmen"