Bagbin Calls for United African Legislative Front to Shield Sovereignty

Rt. Hon. Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament and President of African Legislatures, has urged African nations to adopt collective legislative action against external pressures, warning that no single country can protect its sovereignty alone.

Delivering his keynote at the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Sovereignty and Values, Bagbin said transnational challenges demand a unified continental response.

“Your excellencies, the challenges we face are transnational. Therefore our response must be collective,” he told delegates. “No single African nation can safeguard its legislative sovereignty in isolation. When one country stands alone against unfair external pressures it risks economic isolation.”

He added: “But when we stand together as a continent of 1.4 billion people our voice becomes immutable.”

Bagbin called for stronger use of regional legislative bodies to create a “unified legal shield,” naming the Pan-African Parliament, ECOWAS Parliament, East African Legislative Assembly, and SADC Parliamentary Forum among key platforms.

He also announced plans to take the dialogue beyond Africa this month. “Before the end of this month I’ll be in Morocco, Marrakech, to meet not just North Africa but the whole Middle East at another very important conference on these matters,” Bagbin said, addressing a delegate from Morocco directly: “So my good friend from Morocco, here I come.”