African Liberation Day

May the 25th is African Liberation Day. African Liberation Day was founded in 1958 when Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana convened the First Conference of Independent States held in Accra, Ghana and attended  by 8 Independent African Sates. 

Kwame Nkrumah

April 15 was declared African Freedom Day. Between 1958 and 1963, 17 countries in Africa won their Independence. On May 25th 1963, thirty-one African Head of State convened a summit meeting to found the Organisation of African Unity (OAV). They remamed African Freedom Day to 'African Liberation Day' and changed its date to May 25th. To mark each year onward and the progress of the Liberation Movements and to symbolize, the determination of the people of Africa to free themselves from  500 years of the most brutal suffering known to humanity, the rape of Africa and the subsequent slave trade, which cost Africa in excess of 100,000,000 of her children, the masses  of African People singurlarly, seperately, individually, in small  disconnected groupings had said, 'enough' to years of  foreign domination, colonisation and exploitation.
Not a day for merrymaking , but for one of sober reflection. It continues to contribute to the struggle to raise the level of  political awareness and organisation in African communities worldwide.It hs also been a source of information about the struggles for liberation and development.
Many organisations use an outline of the map of Africa, as a feature to symbolise the day. Pan-African colors , which are widely used for the day, come in different sets of three colors, the green, gold  and red colors used in the red flag of Ghana, and the red, black and green colors adopted  by the American based Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), For more information on African Liberation Day visit the African Liberation Day website https://africanliberationday.net/