Ghana in Focus Special: Ghana , Afrika and Freedom

<p>Today May 25 is Afrika Day, a day where we as Afrikan people worldwide honour the massive sacrifices made by our ancestors and to remind ourselves that a lot more needs to be done in order to attain true freedom and justice from the yoke of White terrorism which is a global reality that affects us all from the mass incarceration of Afrikan people in Brazil, through to Police harassment in countries like the UK, France, The Netherlands, Canada, through to the terrible and appalling White terrorist incident at Buffalo, New York State, through to vicious anti Afrikan/Black racism in India (The Dalits), in the UK, in Australia especially the so called Aboriginal people through to the global injustices suffered by Afrikan people especially on the continent of Afrika caused by failed Western geo economic and politics which manifests itself in mass unemployment, capital flight, avoiding taxes (by multi national companies)  poor health care systems, colonial education systems and not being allowed to trade fairly on the global stage.<br/><br/>This episode of Ghana in Focus looks at the monumental role Ghana&apos;s Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Ethiopia&apos;s His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I played in the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) today&apos;s African Union and share excerpts of the iconic speech Nkrumah gave on May 25 1963 urging Africa to unite by forging what he termed the United States of Africa.<br/><br/>We also give a take on the current position of Afrika given the stark reality that the current crop of Afrikan leaders are sellouts and no where near the revolutionary leaders of the formation of the OAU like Dr Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I (Ethiopia)Kamuzu Banda (Malawi), Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya) Modibo Keita (Mali) Sekou Toure (Guinea) Gamel Abdel Nasser (Egypt) to name a few.<br/><br/>We end by emphasising that TRUE freedom for Afrika means being in total control of its resources , economy, systems of education, healthcare, what its people eat etc etc and how AL