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About African Liberation/Freedom Day
Politics , Africa
Ends: May 25, 2022
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The ALD was founded in 1958 when Kwame Nkrumah convened the First Conference of Independent States in Accra, Ghana. The event was attended by eight independent African states. In commemoration, the 15th of April was declared Africa Freedom Day with the goal of marking each year of progress via the liberation movement. The day symbolizes the determination of the people of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation, often referred to as either imperialism or colonialism.
Between 1958 and 1963 national and class struggles intensified in Africa and the developing world. Seventeen countries in Africa won their independence and 1960 was proclaimed the ‘Year of Africa’.
The United States and European countries were largely responsible for the colonialist and exploitive endeavors in the region and developing world and often did not relinquish power easily. During the 1960s, it is now known that the US government sponsored the assassinations and attempts at assassinations on several of the regions new leaders. The most overt response included sending U.S. troops into Vietnam and the uprising in Algiers. Trends toward communism and socialism were often the lightning rod used to create domestic buy-in.
The time had come however, in Africa, for self-determination. On May 25, 1963, thirty-one African heads of state convened a summit meeting to found the Organization of African Unity (OAU). African Freedom Day was later changed to African Liberation Day and its date to the 25th of May in memory of this meeting.
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