African Remembrance
Remembrance - Unity - Self determination

Events

Greetings,

Every year, the Ligali organisation works with other Pan African organisations to organise a day of African Remembrance. The event is a day of positive edutainment, workshops and progressive socialising dedicated to honouring our Ancestors who fought and died for self-determination and justice, whilst remembering the African people and culture lost through enslavement, colonialism and racism.

“Most of the history of African people throughout the world is told through slavery, a short period in our history, considering that we are the oldest of the world’s people.”
- John Henrik Clarke

Significantly, this day of remembrance is not framed by or limited to the european or arab enslavement of African people. Whilst African history includes the injustice and travesty of trans-atlantic and trans-saharan enslavement, there are substantial and significant elements of our history that have occurred outside this era and it is essential and indeed respectful that the people and culture outside this element of history are also acknowledged and remembered.

Remembrance is an on-going necessity and integral to the progression of African people and culture. A Day of African Remembrance fuses remembrance with the future by reminding us of our past in order to form practical solutions for the ways forward.

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Click here to register for this year's event on Saturday 23nd August 2008