Organization of African Unity

Kwame Nkrumah

Africa Day 2021: Reflections On The Imperative of Unity for Empowerment

Nkrumah makes his impassioned speech. Photo: Facebook. [Pan-African Commentary] As we commemorate Africa liberation day on May 25, it is a stark reminder to ...

Milton Obote

Celebrating Africa Day despite the Covid-19 pandemic

In 1963, Uganda’s then prime minister Obote was the only leader to endorse Nkrumah’s call for immediate African unity. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Harold Acemah ...

Julius Nyerere

Africa Day May 25: Time To Rededicate Ourselves to Struggle for Economic Uhuru

Julius Nyerere, one of Africa’s brightest lights. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. May 25 is a day set aside to mark Africa Day and it’s here ...

Malcolm X

Malcolm X’s 96th Birthday—Honor Legacy By Building Stronger Bonds With Africa

Malcolm X. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress.  Malcolm X, who would be 96 years old today, was a great Pan-African visionary who understood the ...

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Ghana’s Jerry Rawlings’ Dies at 73—His Was One of Africa’s Few Great Military Coups

Jerry Rawlings. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Africa has witnessed many ruinous military coups that led to much death and destruction.  There have also been a ...

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“Africa Must Unite: Without Unity, There Is No Future For Africa”—Julius Nyerere

Kwame Nkrumah during a U.S. visit with President Kennedy in March 1961. The CIA, under Kennedy’s successor President Johnson was involved in Nkrumah’s overthrow ...

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Message To The Youth: Pan-African Unity Is The Path To Africa’s Economic Empowerment

Nkrumah enjoys a light moment with Kennedy during U.S. visit. The CIA under President Johnson-backed the 1966 coup. Photo: Wikimedia Commons   [Message To ...

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Will President Isaias Afwerki Respond Positively To Open “Reawakening” Letter By Pan-Africanists Including Wole Soyinka?

  Afwerki–Photo: Facebook   The Open Letter our African brothers and sisters wrote to Eritrea’s Head of State, Isaias Afwerki, is a breath of ...

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Africa Can’t Produce Economic Tigers Without Quality Political Leadership

Where is Africa’s Lee Kwan Yew who transformed Singapore [Letter from New York] (Benchmarks in Africa’s struggle for economic development since the 1970s). The ...

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Harlem Bids Farewell to Late Theo-Ben Gurirab, Namibian Revolutionary and Gentle Giant

Left to right: Mansour; Gertze; Brath; Plummer; Austrian Ambassador Jan Kickert; Rosario; Ms. Mohammed; Algerian Ambassador Sabri Boukadoum; Mr. Barron; Ms. Barron; Mozambican Ambassador ...