Any American hard hat or British miner would understand. Solidarity is the name of their union game. Alone each worker is nothing; together, over the decades, the unions have forced a redistribution of wealth, have shaken governments. The nations of Africa are new at the game. On the broader, world field they too recognize the power of unity. They too would redistribute wealth—on a world scale. But can economic solidarity, a “trade union” of African nations, inject cement into the shifting sands of their dubious political unity? That is the big question hanging over the continent.