Happy anti-racist African Liberation Day 2017!
NOVANEWS
Antumi Toasijé
It is important to understand the political significance of this Day. It is not just a Day to celebrate our African pride but also a date to remember the freedom fighters of the continent and to keep in mind all the battles still to be fought for the definitive liberation from neocolonialism. It is a Day to denounce all foreign interference in Africa.
African Liberation Day is celebrated on 25 May of each year. The origin of the event is at the First Conference of Independent African States held in Ghana on 15 May 1958. It was the first Pan-African conference held in the African Continent and in a newly independent nation.
The first President of Ghana Dr Kwame Nkrumah gathered in Accra the leaders of the then eight independent A...