Samia Nkrumah states that the message for African unity established by her father is "more alive than ever"

The Ghanian congresswoman, Samia Nkrumah, daughter of the former president of Ghana and father of its independence, Kwame Nkrumah, was the protagonist of the first session of the 2nd International Africa-Western World Conference being held in the Law Faculty of the Universidad de Huelva. Nkrumah stated that 50 years after the independences of African nations, her father´s Pan-African message "is still alive" and that "Africa must unite," develop an industry, and create its own shared structures. "We must once again adopt the idea of an African personality," said Nkrumah in a call to bury the so-called "Afro-pessimism" linked to the mentality on foreign dependence.

Samia Nkrumah reminded that her father´s first Pan-African messages, which date back to the early 1960s, were the seed for the African Union and included a common African citizenship, a single currency and a central bank or a shared strategy for Defence and Security.

Nkrumah´s visit to the Africa-Western World Conference allowed her to see for the first time the Spanish translation of África debe unirse (Africa Must Unite), edited by Casa África and Ediciones Bellaterra, which is the first title of the collection of political texts begun by the Spanish institution for public diplomacy with African nations. For Nkrumah, it´s very important that Spain become familiar with her father´s work because it could "inspire many young people, just as the book inspired me."