Addis Ababa, February 15, 2025 (FMC) Africa has produced great leaders who have paid the price for their countries and their continent at various times.
Africa has had its children who have risen up at various times to erase its name from the record of poverty, war, poor governance and corruption.
They have served Africa diligently and tirelessly, without sacrificing their lives, to free it from colonialism and revive its economy.
Haile Selassie I
The Pan-Africanist was able to prove his great diplomatic skills to the world by linking Africa widely with Africans and the rest of the world community.
In this way, Ethiopia became a charter member of the United Nations. In 1963, he was also the founder and first chairman of the Organization of African Unity, the former African Union, which is now the African Union.
He is also considered one of the founding fathers of African unity.
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah was the first indigenous president and prime minister of Ghana, and was widely credited with leading his country to independence from colonial rule. He was also one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity.
Nkrumah studied abroad for 12 years before returning to Ghana to fight for its independence.
He implemented major projects and development projects during his presidency.
Julius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere was the first president and prime minister of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika) from 1961 to 1985. A pan-Africanist, Nyerere had been fighting for the formation of the African National Union in Tanganyika in 1953. Their efforts paid off, and Tanganyika gained independence in 1961.
Nyerere also played a major role in the unification of Zanzibar and Tanganyika into Tanzania in 1964.
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba was a Congolese revolutionary politician and the country’s first Prime Minister. Lumumba is remembered for serving as President of the Congolese Trade Union while still a British citizen.
After returning to the Congo, he founded the Congolese National Movement (MNC), a pan-Africanist movement that fought for the independence of his country.
He was also instrumental in the independence of the Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961. Lumumba stands out among the leaders who have risen to prominence for his remarkable personality and ability to communicate.
Sadly, his assassination at the age of 35 by a Western and internal conspiracy remains a national memory.
Jomo Kenyatta
An anti-colonial activist and activist, Jomo Kenyatta was the first President of Kenya and the first Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964. He is remembered for his resistance to the British invasion of Kenya.
Kenyatta, who bitterly opposed racism and discrimination, was a Pan-Africanist who played a major role in the liberation of his country from colonial rule.
He also helped to bring peace to his people and Kenya became a member of the African Union.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s first black president, having previously spent 27 years in prison for confronting apartheid.
After many years in prison, he was given the opportunity to lead his country after his party, the African National Congress (ANC), won the 1994 general election.
The election was widely regarded as the first free and fair election in South Africa’s history.
Mandela is a member of the family of all South Africans; an example of love and forgiveness, a beacon of freedom who sacrificed his youth for his country.
For those who suffered for 27 years behind bars by establishing a reconciliation commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during the apartheid era; They showed the world the importance of forgiveness and forgiveness by saying, “I forgive you” instead of revenge for those who have wronged them.
Mandela fought the apartheid regime that lasted for decades and brought peace to South Africa.
This will not only break the image of hunger, poverty, and hardship that the international community has painted of the continent and show the real Africa, but will also expose and raise awareness of the injustice and indirect colonialism that Africa has suffered at various times.
The early fathers have made great strides in laying the foundation for African unity. Today’s leaders are working to overcome the economic, social, and political challenges of the continent with the goal of solving African problems by Africans.
In particular, the leaders of the continent, including Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), are making many efforts to make Africa’s voice heard on the world stage.
Their efforts are beginning to bear fruit.
Pan-Africanism should also be the thread of African unity.
The 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union, which aims to implement this and similar African agendas, was held, and the 38th Summit of the African Union will be held today and tomorrow.
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