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Africa Freedom Day, which falls on 25 May every year, is always an important date on the continent’s post-independence calendar as it commemorates the founding of the OAU.

This year, the day was even more poignant when the AU, the South African government, and the Pan-African Parliament jointly hosted the first ever Global African Diaspora Summit. Belinda Otas attended the event.

THE SENSE OF BELONGING AND PRIDE WAS CLEAR AMONG the over 200 Diasporans invited to South Africa to participate in the inaugural Global African Diaspora Summit.

The popular saying “you are not African because you are born in Africa but because Africa is born in you,” aptly summed up the atmosphere of togetherness at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.

From the four corners of the world (in over 50 countries, including Jamaica, Guyana, Cuba, and the USA), came the sons and daughters of Africa’s Diaspora who basked in the glory accorded the Sixth Region of the African Union.

It was a historic oc