Today, the 25th May, marks one of the most important dates in our lifetime, the Africa day. This is a day to embrace our Africanism, our cultures, our history and unity. Our continent is one of the largest and has a diversity of cultural backgrounds with different languages and ethnic groups. Today we embrace all its beauty and riches. Africa is rich in many ways. It is rich in history.
For a long time we thought that education and civilization originated from the West. In fact civilization started here in Africa and Egypt is where it all started. The first form of writing originated in Egypt at around 4000BC. This form of writing was known as hieroglyphics. It consisted of symbols and signs in which the ancient Egyptians used to communicate. Egypt was the richest country, the minerals, the food production and animal husbandry. You will remember that under the reign of Pharoah, who was the king back then, the Israelites migrated to Egypt when they faced a drought in their country.
So, Africa is so rich in history. The civilization came along with the new revolution in agriculture. Mh-h! African civilization, I like the sound of that. Our continent has a diversity of religious beliefs as well. The one thing that is good about all of this diversity is respect of each other's beliefs and spiritual background. We have our own way of embracing the diversity of cultures and beliefs and that goes along with our sense of Unity and respect. There is a concept of ubuntu which is an African thing. Even in the time of our forefathers, the spirit of ubuntu ( humanity) was the theme of Africanism. Allow me to say Africa is the mother of all nations. I say this because, according to our history, the first inhabitants during the old stone age at around 30000BC were residing at areas around the great Nile river, which is now Egypt. These people were hunter gatherers, that means they live on hunting. As the time went by these people moved to the northern areas above the red sea. They scattered in those areas that are now in the East of Europe. Even the Bible (our religious history) suggest that the descendants of Ham, the second born of Abraham, were assigned to live on hunting from the wild. And these descendants were Cush, Egypt ( who later resided along the Nile river) Put and Canaan, who later resided in the Eastern part of Europe. So, it is in our blood, Africa is a mother to nations. We always keep that spirit of ubuntu.
Our leaders are in the footsteps of our forefathers to bring about this concept of ubuntu which is in jeopardy of being lost because of many things like poverty and other challenges that the country is facing in areas of development. Years ago, one of the African leaders, former president Thabo Mbeki raised a concept of African renaissance. His main objective was to bring about this concept of ubuntu which is the core of Africanism. So, today we embrace all those things that make us Africans. We are Africans and Africa is our continent. We will strive to save its history. And togetherness is the key concept to achieve this goal. We African women have a responsibility to set a trend for our future generation. We are the backbone of our homes and mothers of the nation. It is in our power to bring about the change in our country. A change that will not alter the theme Africanism but to strengthen it. Women in the past have set a trend by fighting for women rights. Women of 1956 paved the way to put in spotlight so that we can be able to raise our voices and combat the gender based discrimination. It is up to us to roll up our sleeves and fight for what is rightfully ours and our children. This call for unity and the spirit of togetherness. Africa is ours!
We celebrate the Africa day
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