Today's program covered: The 60th Anniversary of the 1958 All-African People’s Conference | Held: December 5-8, 2018 | Institute of Africa Studies | University of Ghana The histories of Pan African activity are often incomplete, not because we do not know them. But often because academically, African and Diasporic academicians do not engage with each other. Interesting notion, when this class of folk claim to be experts in the very subject matter they do not practice. Moving forward we must examine pan Africanism in more detail and intentionally. I have argued in, Pan-Africanism in the United States: Identity and Belonging, “in relation to the Africana world, the forms of resistance that challenge the dominant narratives which are produced and reproduced from the sociohistorical and cultural processes which attempt(ed) to strip identity formations from African peoples provide a nuanced frame of reference to understand the relationship between identity, belonging, resistance, and power. The various perspectives that are produced have deep implications that are useful to understanding the evolution in the forms and practice of oppression over time and space. To be clear, we must pay attention to the processes that produce a Pan African critical consciousness that challenges or impedes the development of an African collective consciousness, which then becomes the most press point of concern today. The questions that form will attempt to peel away the relationship between ideas of identity formation and what does it mean to be African, presently and moving forward? Is the descriptor Africa or African meaningful to launch a program for liberation? How can and do we truly begin to return to the source? We may find that the very idea and practice of Pan Africanism, while having a long and vital history in constructing a united front against centuries long attacks against the Africana world, must address what has Pan Africanism as an ideological guide to institutional formation actually produced. Today, AWNP’s executive producer, human rights activist, and international media journalist, Mwiza Munthali caught up with Dr. Gnaka Lagoke, an Assistant Professor of history (world, African, and African-American) and of Pan-Africana Studies at Lincoln University (PA) to talk about the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference in Accra, Ghana. Dr. Gnaka Lagoke is also a specialist and a political analyst in African and world politics, focusing on International and African development, comparative politics, international justice, Pan-Africanism and Ubuntu Philosophy. He founded the Washington DC-based “The Revival of Pan-Africanism Forum” and the Thomas Sankara Annual Conference in 2007. As a political analysist, he has appeared on Voice America, Russia Today, HispanTV, Australian Broadcast Corporation, Democracy Now, Al Jazeera, CCTV, TVC News. Dr. Lagoke is also a member of the Organizing Committee of the 60th Anniversary of the All African People's Conference. Today’s program is produced in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities at Standing Rock, Venezuela, the Avalon Village in Detroit; Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, Cooperation Jackson in Jackson Mississippi; Palestine, South Africa, and Ghana and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples! Music Highlighted: Tall Black Guy--Water No Enemy Jaden Smith -Icon (Instrumental) Little Brother-The Way To Do It (Instrumental) Speech(es): At the beginning--Kwame Nkrumah opens the 1958 All African Peoples Conference; Speech at the end: Forces Against Africa Image:http://africanactivist.msu.edu/image.php?objectid=32-131-1DE