What is the current stage of the African Struggle globally? The following questions will guide discussions for this year’s Annual African Affairs Symposium. The Theme for this year’s Symposium presents some crucial questions for discussion and for solutions. Why are we witnessing a continued general downward social spiral as characteristics of this period in our history? Why are underdevelopment, poverty, corruption, exclusionary politics, dislocation, sexual violence, constant warfare and conflict, and the criminalization of African life still the prevailing issues? What is the state of our present conditions? How and why did our conditions evolve to their present state of existence? What is transformation for Africa? What must be done to bring about transformation for Africa and the African Diaspora? What is the obligation of Leadership to this transformation toward building and fostering the New African Renaissance?
Today, 50 years after independence and the struggle for Civil Rights/Black Power in the United States, Jamaica, Haiti, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Ghana, France and England, and indeed through-out the world; we see discussions of a return to the old conditions, under the banner of so-called “progress”.
