IANA Blog- May 2023
Blog Happy May, This May 25th was Africa Day, formerly known as African Liberation Day. Africa Day is the commemoration of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAAU) on May 25, 1963. It is celebrated pretty much everywhere in Africa. I remember last year as I was celebrating Africa Day, someone on Twitter talked about how Africa Day has turned into a co-op and how some use Africa Day just to celebrate, when in actuality, it should be used as a day to commemorate the many Activists, Revolutionaries and Freedom Fighters from the continent who fought for the independence of the countries they were from, especially Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie and Julius Nyerere who helped form the OAAU. I had to agree; of course, Africans should celebrate “Africa Day,” but also remember that it should be a call to action, because every African country still has problems that go all the way back to colonization. We should all be continuing to fight for the liberation of not just ...