MEDIA CENTRE: FRIDAY 24TH MAY 2024

Event: 61st African Liberation Day, also called AFRICA Day

Date: Saturday 25th May 2024

Venue: Kololo Independence Grounds

GoH: To be confirmed

 

Theme: 

“Guaranteeing safe environment for a digital Pan African Education System:         Creating a Centre of Gravity for the United African States (UAS)”.  

 

Organizers:   

Pan African Groups in Uganda 

African Diplomatic Group

Supported by Government MDAs

 

 

Participants:

Pan African Organizations in Uganda: 

oPan African Federalist Movement (PAFM)

oPan African Movement Uganda Chapter (PAM-U)

oPan African Women’s Organization (PAWO)

oGlobal Pan African Secretariat HQs

 

African Ambassadors Group

oS. Africa

oEritrea

oRwanda

oBurundi

oEthiopia

oAlgeria

oDR Congo

oNigeria

oS. Sudan

oThe Sudan

oSaharawi Republic

oKenya

oUnited Republic of Tanzania

oEgypt

 

Government MDAs

oMinistry of Foreign Affairs

oMinistry of Internal Affairs

oDirectorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control

oUganda Prisons Service

oMinistry of Defence and Veteran Affairs

oUganda Peoples’ Defence Forces

oMinistry of EAC Affairs

oMinistry of Gender Labour and Social Development

oMinistry of Trade Industry and Cooporatives

oMinistry of Education

oMinistry of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquity

oUganda Tourism Board

oMinistry of ICT

 

African Communities in Uganda

oSomali 

oBurundi

oEthiopian

oEritrean

oCongolese

oCaribbean

oSudan

oNigerian

oGhanaian

oKenyan

oRastafari

oPatriotic League of Uganda

 

Institutions

oTeachers’ Association

oUganda National Students’ Council (UNSA)

oNational Youth Council (NYC)

oAfrican Union Students’ Platform (AUSP)

oBoys & Girls Brigade

 

Cultural Institutions

oRwenzururu

oBuganda

oBusoga

oTooro

oBunyoro

oAlur

oAcholi

oLango

oJopadhola

oBuganda

oIteso

 

Religious Faiths Group

Political Parties

Parliamentarians

Media

Security Agencies

NOTES

The Day is recognized and celebrated annually by all Pan Africanists across Africa and around the world as the Africa Day, since the founding of the Organization of the African Unity (OAU), today African Union (AU) in 1963.

On 25 May 1963, thirty-one African Heads of State convened a meeting to establish the Organization of African Unity (OAU). They renamed African Freedom Day which had been declared so on 15th April 1958, the "African Liberation Day" (ALD) and changed its date to May 25th. 

The celebration marks each year’s progress in the liberation of Africa and symbolizes the determination of the people of Africa to free themselves from the yoke of foreign domination and exploitation which has a long and glorious history.

Since the 1994 7th Pan African Congress held in Uganda, H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is the Patron for the Global Pan African Movement, whose Chairman is Gen. Kahiinda Otafiire.