The understanding among contemporary African scholars is that the relationship between Europe and Africa, in the last few hundred years, has gone through three major stages: the stage of slavery, the stage of colonization and the stage of neo-colonialism.

Being African could mean you are white South African billionaire Elon Musk, or it could mean you’ve never seen a white person before (as has been the case with a lot of people I’ve encountered while living in rural Uganda). Saying a person is African is like saying I am from planet earth — it tells you little more than I am a human being. If you have roots in Africa, your ancestors could have belonged to any one of over three thousand different tribes and those ancestors could have spoken any number of more than 1,500 unique languages.

Africa is the Future, but STABILITY is dependent on SECURITY, the condition necessary for economic prosperity and stronger institutions. Without it, none of the other pieces can be put into place.

International Solidarity goes beyond national borders. Ensuring long lasting prosperity, stability and above all, peace requires effective coordination in the international realm based on democracy, mutual respect and human rights.

International means between or involving different countries. It is facilitated by the Globalization Phenomenon, which increasingly erases the constraints of geography on economic, social and cultural arrangements.