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COVER STORY

Africa
“I am not African because I was born in
Africa but because Africa was born in me”

Kwame Nkrumah

Africa Day is celebrated on 25 May annually. It African people launched protracted struggles
is the day when the Organisation of African against the recalcitrant colonial regimes.
Unity (OAU), the precursor to the African Thus, between 1945 and 1965 a significant
Union (AU), was formed in 1963. It number of African countries gained
acknowledges the progress that we, as independence from European colonial
Africans, have made, while reflecting upon powers.
the common challenges we face in a global
environment. Ghana became the first African country south
of the Sahara to gain independence on 6
After the World War II, the process of March 1957. Its independence served an
decolonisation of the African continent inspiration to other African countries
gathered momentum as Africans increasingly struggling against colonial rule and as a result
agitated for more political rights and Ghana occupied a central role in the struggle
independence. While in other parts of the against colonial rule.
continent colonial powers reluctantly and
grudgingly relinquished power, in other parts

Mangwanani Employees had this to say, when we asked them “What makes you African?”:

“The Spirit of Ubuntu & “The unique African cuisine such "The cultural attire from the
pride in my beautiful skin” as nyawuti and umfushwa from different nations and Ubuntu”

Loretta Green - Mangwanani Elangeni Zimbabwe” Rebecca Mabaso - Mangwanani Palazzo

Nonhlanhla Sibanda - Mangwanani Palazzo

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