Similar proposals have already been approved like the Asian gTLD (.asia) and the European Union's ccTLD (.eu).
DCA presented the DotAfrica (.africa) gTLD initiative to several inter-governmental bodies in Africa such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the African Union Commission (AUC).
Among others, members include DNS Anycast operators providing instances of E, I and L root servers and over 100 gTLDs/ccTLDs