Africa Day

I honestly did not know that there was such a thing as ‘Africa Day’!!!

I owe some my Afroklectic Facebook fans a big thank you for teaching me something new.

Now that I know, I am going to make it a point to acknowledge it every year in some way!

Africa day is an annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On this day in 1963, leaders of the 30 out of 32 independent African states signed a founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1991, the OAU established the African Economic Community, and in 2002 the OAU established its own successor, the African Union. The African Union, comprises of 53 member states, has brought together the continent of Africa to collectively address the challenges it has faced, such as armed conflict, climate change, and poverty. 

This years theme of Africa Day is ‘Africa and the Diaspora’.

The New York celebration will be held in New York City on May 31, 2011.

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA, AFRICA DAY, & CREATIVE ROOTS