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Collective Struggle & Solidarity is Africa Unity #AfricaDay

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Published at Foresight For Development -Africa Over the past years, our African unity has been tested constantly to realize that unity is not a one-day celebration or a mere occasional response to threatening events happening across the continent. Unity, instead, shall be a continuous collective struggle and solidarity. For the past year, Africa has not healed from pain, bloodshed and diseases. From Ebola outbreak in West Africa to the recent crimes in South Africa, and the disaster of endless deaths of Africans sinking in the middle of the Mediterranean; from Al Shabab attacks in Kenya, to the Islamic State killings in Libya, and to Boko Haram massacres in West Africa - a similar pattern of extreme brutality spreading across. I’m afraid that our sufferings will become normalized and our people will become just numbers and statistical tragedies on indices… Early this year, over a million people flooded the streets of Paris with more than 40 world leaders participating, p