Considered an official national holiday in Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Namibia, Zambia, Mali, Mauritania, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, Africa Day is also celebrated at the UBA group. Whose president Tony Elumelu is organizing a high-level panel, this Tuesday, May 25, by video conference with the president of Rwanda Paul Kagamé, the director general of the World Trade Organization, the Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director as guest General of the World Health Organization, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the Senegalese Makhtar Diop, director general of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
“We mark this day by highlighting our diversity and the collaborations that allow us to stay strong together as a continent and by celebrating the integration of a prosperous and peaceful Africa, led by its own citizens,” explains the banking group .
Created to foster change, freedom and independence for many African countries, Africa Day is the Day of African Unity. It commemorates the birth of the Organization of African Unity (Oua) on May 25, 1963.