“The ministers… guided by the ambition to ultimately achieve a federation uniting Burkina, Mali and Niger recommend the creation of a confederation to the heads of state of the Alliance of Sahel States,” the statement said.
everybody talks about the Bell Riots and Irish Reunification of 2024 but there's a couple ideas for a unified africa in there too. in the 60s it was lame "united states of africa" but luckily it was never mentioned on-screen and eventually they prophesied this confederation.
In the 1977 Writers'/Directors' Guide for Star Trek: Phase II – the abortive second series – Uhura was noted as having instead been born in the "African Confederacy". This may have led to the naming of Geordi La Forge's birthplace as the African Confederation in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode TNG: "Cause And Effect".
everybody talks about the Bell Riots
and Irish Reunification of 2024 
but there's a couple ideas for a unified africa in there too. in the 60s it was lame "united states of africa" but luckily it was never mentioned on-screen and eventually they prophesied this confederation.
As a giant major huge trekking, good catch! I'm gonna do a little digging for whatever references I can find for Star Trek Pan-Africanism