Unfortunately for you Mike, you read it wrong and therefore wrongly reconfigured it's meaning. I meant that for Africa to make a transition FROM these three [chaos, lawlessness and regression] TO civility, AU members must pool their sovereignty. Countries pool their sovereignty by agreeing to give up their sovereign authority in specific policy/development areas and give that authority to a body such as the AU.
In our case, the implication of pooling our sovereignty regarding democracy and governance is that through The Assembly, the AU sets the benchmark of what is acceptable when it comes to democracy and governance. The outcome?...the AU would have the legitimate authority to intervene in the event transgressions such as Lungu's occur. Unlike now, he wouldn't be able to rape democratic principles and hide behind the sovereignty of Zambia.