Delegates at the First Conference of Independent African States, hosted by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in Accra, in 1958, called for an “African Freedom Day” to be held on April 15 to honor those who had contributed to the anti-colonial struggle. Later in 1963, with the founding of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, African Freedom Day became African Liberation Day. At the founding of the OAU, Kwame Nkrumah stood before 31 heads of African states and declared: “[T]he struggle against colonialism does not end with the attainment of national independence. Independence is only the prelude to a new and more involved struggle for the right to conduct our own economic and social affairs…unhampered by crushing and humiliating neo-colonialist controls and interference.” The clarity of Nkrumah’s thought is further articulated as he was very clear to point out that while African peoples were throwing off “the yoke of colonialism” it must not be lost that “these successes were equally matched by an intense effort on the part of imperialism to continue the exploitation of our resources by creating divisions among us.” As a result, for Nkrumah, the imperative was clear: “We must unite or perish”. While the Organization of African Unity eventually became the African Union (AU) and African Liberation Day became Africa Day, May 25th still serves as a crucial platform for progressive forces to connect and strategize against inequitable and dehumanizing conditions. Moreover, while it is argued that the ideas and principles of liberation that propelled the formation of the Organization of African Unity has since been “removed in letter, and even in spirit, from official commemorations of the day” (Tanupriya Singh, “Unity is an imperative: reclaiming African Liberation Day, 60 years on”). However, the current global conditions, products of historical inequities inherent in racial capitalist relationships, have produced a more intentional focus on radical study that informs the work to address the false narrative of the ‘post’ colonial which is rising across the African world (see Kenyan Organic Intellectuals). Today, we explore the continuities of African Liberation Day w/ Obi Egbuna Jr. Born in London and raised in Washington, DC, Obi is a journalist, African/a history teacher and playwright. Currently, Obi is correspondent to The Herald, Zimbabwe’s national newspaper as well as US correspondent to the Southern African Times. Obi is also External Relations Officer to the Zimbabwe Cuba Friendship Association and founder of the Get Out of Cuba Way coalition. Obi is a Founding Member and Executive Director of Mass Emphasis Children’s History and Theater Company (2012). Working directly with Kwame Ture, Obi is the son of Obi Egbuna Sr, who was a Nigerian-born novelist, playwright and political activist, leading member of the Universal Coloured People's Association (UCPA) and the British Black Power and Black Panther Movement. Obi’s father’s book, Destroy this Temple: The Voice of Black Power in Britain, has been [re]released and is currently available from Black Classic Press. Shirley Graham Du Bois (1972) in her review of Destroy this Temple: The Voice of Black Power in Britain, wrote that: “Here is a book all of us will find extremely valuable. By “all” I mean every African, everyone of African descent, wherever he or she may be and everyone who is aware that something is basically wrong with the relations of human beings on this earth. (People not aware of this fact are either too stupid or too arrogantly complacent to matter)” (Black Scholar, 3(5): 58-61). Image: Members of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party march outside the White House for African Liberation Day, May 28, 1977. (Star Collection/D.C. Public Library)