Opinion: Africa Shall Have Its Day, By Owei Lakemfa
…Africa’s main challenge is implementing the AU 2063 Agenda, which promises a shared prosperity and well-being, unity and integration, freedom and expanded horizons, realisation of the potentials of youth and women, and freedom from fear, diseases and want. Africa’s Day shall come!
Also in attendance at that meeting was Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, whose country, like Algeria, had fought a quite bloody anti-colonial war against attempts by Britain to turn it into a white settlement, like Northern Rhodesia , South-West Africa and Apartheid South Africa. . His proposal was for the creation of a United States of Africa, with a common economy, military, capital and leadership.
Nkrumah championed the convening of an All Africa Conference in Casablanca, Morocco, from January 3-7, 1961. But only Guinea, Ghana, Libya, Mali, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Libya attended. Given the city they met in, this became known as the Casablanca Group. The OAU might not have been strong, but it provided an umbrella for the continent. One of its major achievements was the defeat of Apartheid and the total liberation of the continent from colonialism. The only challenge in this respect, remains the occupation of Western Sahara by the Moroccan monarchy.
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