30/07/2026
Pan African Congress Kenya, the Kenyan chapter of the Global Pan African Movement, this week joined a Pan African Discourse Workshop with organized by SOAS University of London in Naivasha, bringing together delegates from Kenya, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Tanzania.
The workshop convened a deliberately broad colaboration, universities, non-governmental organizations, social justice movements, legal and justice-sector organizations, and anti-racism organizations from across the seven represented nations around a single, deliberate purpose: to reawaken the Pan-African spirit and recommit the continent to the founding vision of a united, peaceful, and prosperous Africa, built by Africans and for Africans.
Discussions were anchored by two guiding principles of the movement: "Don't Agonize, Organize," a call to move beyond lament into structured, sustained action; and "One Battle, Many Fronts," a recognition that university researchers, grassroots NGOs, justice-sector advocates, and anti-racism campaigners are not pursuing separate agendas, but fighting the same continental struggle from different positions.
Central to the discourse was a shared conviction: Africa's unity project is not a relic to be revisited nostalgically, but an unfinished mandate to be carried forward deliberately, on African terms. Delegates were explicit that the objective is African solutions to African problems, with any international partnership, including that of SOAS University of London, positioned to support the implementation of African-designed solutions rather than to define or impose them. Delegates examined how each generation since independence has advanced, and at times stalled, the continental integration agenda, and identified concrete steps for embedding Pan-African thinking into policy, education, and youth leadership across the seven represented nations.
The workshop's closing session took place at Kabarak University School of Law, where students staged a historical recreation of the 1945 Pan African Congress held in Manchester, London, the gathering widely credited with catalyzing the wave of African independence movements that followed. The recreation was attended by university staff, students, and former Chief Justice of Kenya, Prof. Willie Mutunga, whose reflections connected the 1945 delegates' demands for self-governance to the constitutional and justice challenges facing Africa today.
"Every generation inherits a foundation. Ours is not to lay a new one from scratch, but to build the next floor," said a PAC Kenya representative at the closing of the workshop.
The engagement reaffirms PAC Kenya's institutional commitment to intergenerational transfer of the Pan-African project — ensuring that gains made by earlier generations of liberation leaders are consolidated, documented, and handed to the youth as a working inheritance rather than a historical footnote.
PAC Kenya extends its gratitude to SOAS University of London, Kabarak University School of Law, and all delegates from the seven participating nations for their partnership in this continuing work.
**Viva Africa. A Luta Continua.**