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A couple of days ago I was blown away with one of our lecturers who spoke to us on Pan Africanism and its ideologies. There were so many instances where I just wanted to stand up and say, “YES,” but I didn’t want to interfere with his flow which was so engaging.

I have a sound bite from part of the lecture I attended as a MILEAD fellow,  though I don’t think it does justice to the speaker because it was so much better live, but I feel it is my duty to share it for Africa as a believer in the Pan Africanist movement and project. Below the podcast are some  important points Kwesi Pratt (the lecturer) raised during the lecture that I thought I should put down for you guys so you can think about it when listening to the podcast. A special thanks to Grace Atuhaire, my fellow journalist from Uganda and a 2012 MILEAD fellow for recording this lecture and allowing me to use it.

• Pan Africanism: the need for African people and that includes people of African descent to work to resolve the different issues on the continent  as a collective effort.
• Africa is not the only continent on the globe, so other continents are working together to force out their agenda. Partly because countries are realizing that no nation has all the resources to progress forward.
•  If Africa has all this resources how can we explain our poverty? The depreciation of our national currencies, which is backed by gold which determines the national currencies. When Ghana is leading in the development of Gold yet the value of the money keeps going down. What is going on?
• We are taking our instructions as governments from institutions, so the elections don’t do anything but change the face, but not the voice such as the IMF and World Bank. The policies implemented are still the same.
• Why is it so?  Some of our countries are not really viable like Ghana which is a big name in Africa with 25 million people which is the size of a big country. We cannot develop without large markets which is almost impossible because of economic tariffs imposed by the western world. So we need to trade among ourselves as Africans and open up our Markets
• For every dollar we get as aid from places like Britain and so forth, 7 dollars leave this country. Let them keep their dollar.
•  The pan African project is about the utilization of the African resources for Africans development

I also thought I would share some video on an interview that he had. Speaking as a journalist, when you carry out an interview you do your best to be as objective as possible without letting on your bias. I thought the host got to personal in the way he asked his questions in a form of attack. But that is my opinion…..

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