THE Global Pan-African Movement (GPAM) convened a pan-Africanism general conference for various movements in Africa with a common goal of unity among Africans and the elimination of colonialism and white supremacy from the continent.
The meeting also saw Ibbo Mandaza, a Zimbabwean academic, author and publisher being elected as acting secretary-general.
Mandaza’s appointment came following the passing on of Professor Ikwaweba Bunting on October 3, 2024.
Mandaza is a long-standing member of the Global Pan African Movement, ever since his participation in the sixth Congress in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1976 and the seventh congress in Kampala, Uganda in 1994.
In a statement, the GPAM said Mandaza was a member of the Governing Council of the Global Pan African Movement and promoter of the proposed Pan Afrika Graduate University, which will also be the academic and ideological home of the movement.
Professor Cheryl Tawede, a professor of psychology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, in the United States and a member of the California Reparations Task Force, who has served on numerous commissions in the United States, including the US Federal 400 Years of African American Commission, was also elected as the acting deputy secretary-general.
As the GP AM prepares for the second phase of the eighth Pan-African Congress scheduled for 2025, the urgency of their mission remains clear pushing all African people, groups and individuals to mobilise for the emancipation of the African world.
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