Africa Day, and the Measure of a Continent
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Africa Day should not be observed merely as a ritual of speeches and nostalgia. It should be approached as a test. Commemorating the founding of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa on 25 May 1963, and the political imagination that would later find institutional expression in the African Union, it compels a question that is both uncomfortable and necessary: is Africa becoming equal to the ambitions of its founders?
That question leads back to Kwame Nkrumah’s celebrated warning th
That question leads back to Kwame Nkrumah’s celebrated warning th
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