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African Business Month

About African Business Month:  African  Business Month was established   to focus on Promoting African Businesses in Africa, Europe, Caribbean, Pacific and around the world. African Business Month will tap into the informal sector and help them grow through capacity building. The upcoming conference will give African businesses an opportunity to showcase their products and invest in Opportunities available in Africa for Africans. One of the goals is promoting  AfCFTA ,Manufacturing Industry in Africa,Infrastructure, encouraging self reliance and building the Africa we want. African Business Month  will run from  1st November to 30th November during which businesses of African descent will be exhibited and this will encourage African to African Investments. Register Now #ABM2020 #AfricanBusinessMonth African Business Month

African Union: Watch it live now:

African Union: Watch it live now: Extend Nomination deadline for AU Commission Chairperson - 4PM EAT /1Pm Ghana Time https://youtu.be/jDURuwnhzXo

World Afro Day: Tignon Laws Set The Precedent For The Appropriation and Misconception Around Black Hair

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World Afro Day: Tignon Laws Set The Precedent For The Appropriation and Misconception Around Black Hair Happy World Afro Day: Today – 15 Septepmber – is World Afro Day. A day to celebrate the beauty and versatility of Afro hair, as well as raise awareness about hair discrimination and inequality. This is a day that is about so much more than just hair. For Black people, hair is political and carries a weight of historical meaning. Black Natural Hair has many times become a subject of ridicule and often derided in Eurocentric world where the west dictate beauty standards. Black people are being subjected to microaggressions,discrimination and overt racism because of their natural hair,in recent ad at clicks Black hair was depicted as ‘dirty’ or ‘unprofessional’, ‘frizzy and dull’ while many blacks have been expelled from school or even fired from their jobs because of their natural hair. This year, World Afro Day marks the beginning of a 30-day call to schools in UK and head...

AU Chairperson: a- Extend The NominationDeadline For The Position Of The Chairperson Of The African

AU Chairperson: a- Extend The Nomination Deadline For The Position Of The Chairperson Of The African #AUChair2021 Union - Sign the Petition!  AU Petition  via @Change

How Facebook is Spreading Racism

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Facebook has become a place for Social Experiments on Technological Racism. Mark Zuckerberg walking through the wrong side of History. Preaching water while drinking wine. In spite of facebook donating millions of dollars to Racial Justice movements in the US it has continued to impose draconian censorship and restrictions on Black organizations accounts. #Technology #RacismMustFall

GPAN Queens Club Founded

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*GPAN Queens Club Founded:*  Global Pan Africanism Network Queens Club hereby established to preserve,promote and protect the image of Black women around the world through encouraging cultural renaissance which promotes African sense of style,decency and undying pride in natural beauty. This club seeks to encourage more African female Pan Africanists and empower black women socially,culturally,economically and politically all over the world while encouraging collaborations between women of African descent in Africa and in the diaspora. At the same time it provides a platform for Black Women to share their experiences,address issues affecting them and promote United States of Africa This club goal is inspire a new generation of African women who are proud of who they are and refuse not to be defined by the scales of white supremacy. Follow and Like our Page If you are an African woman contact us to join the club #GPANQueens https://www.facebook.com/gpanqueens/

President Kagame challenges the Youths of Africa to Seize Available opportunities and Change the Business of Food in Africa.

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President Kagame challenges the Youths of Africa to Seize Available opportunities and Change the Business of Food in Africa. We must begin to own all systems and chains of Production of Food. To ensure food security we must lay off idleness and get to work. Rwandan President Paul Kagame “It will be up to the young people represented here to seize the opportunities available to fundamentally change the business of food in Africa. I know you are up to the task.”   #AGRF2020

African Freedom Fighters

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African Freedom Fighters L-R:Cde Kenneth Kaunda from Zambia. Samora Machel   from  Mozambique Mwalimu Julius Nyerere  from Tanzania The above Ancestors of Freedom among others cofounded defunct OAU now AU with main purpose of unifying Africa. ~UOE

Amy Ashwood Garvey the illustrious Pan Africanist and her role in African liberation

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“If ever there was a life of lived Pan Africanism, it was that of Amy Ashwood Garvey” (Adi and Sherwood 69). This quote may be surprising to many since, as stated by pan- Africanist scholar Horace Campbell, the ideological history of Pan Africanism has almost always focused on the contributions made by great heroes, mostly male, which denied the link to a broader social movement and the role of women (Campbell 286). This in itself emphasizes the struggle for a woman’s voice to be heard in movements and by extension the wider society, when dominated by male figures.   Amy Ashwood Garvey (1897-1969), the first wife of Marcus Garvey, is acknowledged as building upon the feminist activist work of African and Caribbean feminists before her. She made significant contributions to the Pan Africanist movement, feminism and community development in Britain, the Caribbean and West Africa. Born in Port Antonio, Jamaica in 1897, Amy met her future husband Marcus Garvey at the age of seventeen. ...

Reject motion pushing for abortion in Namibia

  Hon. Professor Peter Katjavivi MP: Hon.Peter Katjavivi: Reject motion pushing for abortion in Namibia - Sign: Reject motion pushing for abortion in Namibia

Become a Member

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  Become a Member – Global Pan-Africanism Network https://www.gpanreunification.org/become-a-member/

About United States of Africa

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About United States of Africa The United States of Africa is a hypothetical concept of a federation of some or all of the 55 sovereign states on the continent of Africa. The concept takes its origin from Marcus Garvey's 1924 poem "Hail, United States of Africa. Inspired by Marcus Garvey and other Pan Africanists like Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X and Muammar Gaddafi quest for a unified Africa ,a Kenyan Pan Africanist Daniel Mwambonu started United States of Africa project on 7 March 2016 through a Facebook Page but thereafter it attracted following worldwide. With the support of GPAN 1st Vice President Kassahun Delene and former Vice President Miss Pauline Owiti by the end of 2018 United States of Africa movement had began attracting attention from scholars,Activists in Africa and Diaspora. This led to the registration of United States of Africa as a non profit in the United States on 30th June with Ethiopia's first international model Yeharerwerk Gashaw being the first Vic...