President Cyril Ramaphosa will host the Diplomatic Corps in celebration of Africa Day 2018.

The Organisation of African Unity was formed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on this day in 1963. It was then dissolved and replaced by today’s African Union in 2002. 

Among other events, United Nations Women Executive Director and former Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, will deliver the annual Thabo Mbeki Africa Day Lecture at the University of South Africa in Pretoria on Friday evening.

Earlier in the week, the Pan African Congress called on South African authorities to declare Africa Day a public holiday.

Meanwhile, Zambia also joins other African countries in marking Africa Liberation Day.  The holiday is observed in commemoration of the first Conference of Independent African States held in Accra, Ghana on April 15, 1958, where Africa Freedom Day was founded by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. 

The purpose of the conference was to mark the progress of the African liberation movement. In this report, Hilda Akekelwa finds out how relevant the commemoration is to Zambians. 

For full interview click audio below:
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