African Liberation Day

Africa Liberation Day 2026: Renewed Struggle For Sovereignty, Liberation

May 27, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Create! Africa, African Liberation Day, Pan-African unity, Socialism

On May 25, progressive movements, socialist organizations, cooperatives, students, artists and Pan-Africanist formations across Africa commemorated Africa Liberation Day 2026 with renewed calls for sovereignty, continental unity, and resistance against imperialism. The commemorations took place in various countries, including Kenya and Tanzania, while in Ghana, the Socialist Movement of Ghana released a statement marking the occasion. At the same time, Pan Africanism Today issued a broader political intervention focused on sovereignty, imperialism, and the unfinished project of African liberation.

Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, And The Land Of The Upright People

June 7, 2025 Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, People's Dispatch. Create! Africa, African Liberation Day, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Anti-Imperialism, Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, Imperialism, NATO, neo-colonialism, Pan Africanism, Sovereignty

Since his ascension to power on September 30, 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré has become a powerful symbol of Pan-Africanism and a stark contrast to the previous state of affairs in Burkina Faso. His leadership embodies unquestionable patriotism, committed sovereignty, and a clear vision for the future. The emergence of Captain Ibrahim Traoré and a similar style of leadership in the Sahel has reignited confidence in Pan-Africanism and inspired the youth throughout Africa. This beacon of hope has triggered aspirations among citizens across the continent regarding how their countries should be governed. Indeed, due to his unwavering commitment and patriotism, Captain Ibrahim Traoré has become a star, an inspiration, and a champion of anti-imperialism, posing a genuine threat to imperialism in Africa.

Why We Must Reclaim African Liberation Day

May 26, 2025 Kambale Musavuli, People's Dispatch. Educate! Africa, African Liberation Day, Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Anti-Imperialism, Kambale Musavuli, Pan Africanism

Our generation is living through a seismic shift in the struggle for African liberation. We are witnessing the rise of a new revolutionary Pan-Africanism that challenges imperialism not just in words, but in action. On one front, Captain Ibrahim Traoré stands as a living embodiment of our ancestors’ dreams. In the spirit of Kwame Nkrumah, he is leading Burkina Faso through a profound dialectical transformation – reclaiming land and resources, dismantling neo-colonial dependencies, and ensuring the wealth of the soil serves the people of Burkina Faso. It is a rupture with imperialism, a bold step toward a dignified and sovereign Africa.

African Liberation Day And The Struggle For Freedom In Palestine

May 23, 2024 Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, African Liberation Day, Israel, Palestine

This commemoration of African Liberation Day comes at a critical conjunction in the overall struggle against imperialism and for the total liberation of our continent along with other oppressed and exploited peoples throughout the globe. Since October 7, the people of Palestine have once again renewed their leading role in ending the yoke of Zionism and imperialism over their land and people. Some 76 years ago on May 15, 1948, the Zionists regime was recognized by the United States under President Harry S. Truman as the purported “legitimate” entity over the land of Palestine. Even prior to 1948, the Zionist project had been advanced by the French and British imperialists.

Reclaiming African Liberation Day, 60 Years On

May 26, 2023 Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. Educate! Africa, African Liberation Day, Capitalism, History, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Pan Africanism

60 years ago, on May 25, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, the anti-colonial revolutionary leader Kwame Nkrumah stood before 31 other heads of African states in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and declared, “[T]he struggle against colonialism does not end with the attainment of national independence.” “Independence is only the prelude to a new and more involved struggle for the right to conduct our own economic and social affairs…unhampered by crushing and humiliating neo-colonialist controls and interference.” “We must unite or perish,” Nkrumah had emphasized, recognizing that while countries across the African continent were “throwing off the yoke of colonialism,” these successes were “equally matched by an intense effort on the part of imperialism to continue the exploitation of our resources by creating divisions among us.”

Biden’s Troop Deployment To Somalia Confirms Africa Is Not Free

May 26, 2022 Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, African Liberation Day, AFRICOM, Congressional Black Caucus, Somalia

The Biden Administration's recent decision to return U.S. troops to Somalia represents another effort on the part of the U.S. to deny agency and independence to African people. On the 59th commemoration of African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace expresses its unequivocal opposition to this redeployment. The 500 U.S. troops sent to Somalia are the latest to violate that nation’s sovereignty. As is the case with all U.S. interventions, the underlying reasons are not only depraved but also indifferent to the constant suffering of African people caused by western-induced militarism and war. The reintroduction of the U.S. military (AFRICOM ) on the ground is related to a dispute between Somalia and the U.S. oil company, Coastline Exploration Ltd, over the validity of an oil exploration agreement.

Pan-Africanism Yes! US AFRICOM And NATO No!

May 26, 2022 Abayomi Azikiwe, Popular Resistance. Educate! Africa, African Liberation Day, AFRICOM, NATO

We are honored to participate in this annual commemoration of Africa Liberation Day some 59 years after the founding meeting of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Much has transpired since 1963 when more than 30 independent African states held this gathering and pledged to work towards the total liberation of the continent and greater unity among governments throughout the region. Today, the African Union (AU), founded in 2002 in Sirte, Libya, is facing one of the most profound challenges of the post-colonial period. The struggle for the unification of the AU member-states cannot occur absent of the removal of foreign military forces now occupying several geo-political regions.

African Liberation Day: Imamu Amiri Baraka, 1972

May 25, 2022 Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, African Liberation Day, Amiri Baraka, Black misleadership class

Should African Liberation Day be a day of celebration or mourning? Since the first African Liberation Day celebrations were held in Washington, Toronto, and Washington, DC., May 27, 1972, most of the African continent broke from colonial rule and became politically independent. But the enemies of African people launched a counter revolutionary war against self-determination immediately after independence. African sovereignty came under attack from a vindictive neocolonialism that would later be intensified by neoliberalism. This neocolonialism would not be successful, however, if not also for the actions of a veritable minstrel show of Black compradors, sell-outs, spooks, reformists, reactionaries, puppets, poodles, and misleaders - on the continent and throughout the African diaspora.

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