The Sunday Mail
Sunday Mail Reporter
THE Institute of African Knowledge (INSTAK) — a Pan-African think-tank — will host belated 60th Africa Day commemorations at the Museum of African Liberation in Harare on Friday next week.
African ambassadors accredited to Zimbabwe are expected to attend the event, where their delegations will hold exhibitions of their countries’ cultural heritage.
Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union) on May 25, 1963.
This year’s celebrations will be held under the theme “Acceleration of AfCFTA implementation”.
AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) was established in 2018 through adoption of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement by the African Union.
INSTAK chief executive officer Ambassador Kwame Muzawazi said: “We are the ones hosting the official Africa Day commemorations at the Museum of African Liberation.
“However, we are not going to hold the event on Africa Day itself but on June 2.
“The event coincides with another important event, so we moved the commemorations to a later date.
“The event will be attended by officials from all African embassies accredited to the country and they will have pavilions where they will be exhibiting their food, fashion, cultures and many other things.”
Executive director of Global Economics 2020 Consultancy Group Mr Naboth Paurosi Dzivaguru said Africa Day commemorations were an important event on the continent’s calendar.
“It is a day when Africans sat down and agreed to pursue their own destiny, free from foreign or external dictation, under the principle of injury to one is injury to all,” he said.
The day, which was formerly known as African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day, is celebrated in various African countries and around the world.
