What Does it mean to be African; Are you a disappointment to your Heritage? : Episode 8
Welcome Welcome to the eighth episode of The Revolutionary Star…………. broadcasting live and direct from Harare Zimbabwe to the comfort of wherever you are right now in our global world.
Today is Monday the 25th of May 2020 and officially here in Zimbabwe we have now come to the end of our eighth week under the extended lockdown………... However this week we discuss what it means to be African especially as a Zimbabwean............
Today is Africa Day, a truly and deeply auspicious day on the continent’s calendar.
On this day, various leaders of African nations that had wrestled freedom and independence gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to proclaim the birth of the Organisation of African Unity. Within this gathering, there was another more militant group led by Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere, among others.
The First Congress of Independent African States was held in Accra, Ghana on 15 April 1958. It was convened by Prime Minister of Ghana Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and comprised representatives from Egypt (then a constituent part of the United Arab Republic), Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon and of the host country Ghana.
The Conference called for the founding of an African Freedom Day, a day to "...mark each year the onward progress of the liberation movement, and to symbolise the determination of the people of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation.
What does it mean to be african
To be African means to be an individual, but one that forms part of a whole. It means to celebrate our diversity in a way that promotes understanding and to focus on the challenges facing our continent.
Let us explore this deeper in our Podcast remembering those who came before us......
