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 Africa's Longest Ruling Political Parties   1. True Whig Party TWP (Liberia 🇱🇷) - 1878-1980 2. Botswana Democratic Party (BDP 🇧🇼) - 1966 till date 3. Parti Démocratique Gabonais PDG (Gabon 🇬🇦) 1968 till date 4. Congolese Party of Labour (PCT 🇨🇬) - 1969-1992, 1997 till date 5. Liberation Front of Mozambique 🇲🇿 (FRELIMO) - 1975 till date 6. Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola 🇦🇴 (MPLA) - 1975 till date 7. Democratic Constitutional Rally, RCD (formerly known as Socialist Destourian Party, SDP (Tunisia 🇹🇳) - 1964-2011 8. Chama Cha Mapinduzi, CCM (Tanzania 🇹🇿 ) - 1977 till date 9. Democratic Party of Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 – African Democratic Rally, PDCI-RDA - 1960-2005 10. People's Rally for Progress, RPP (Djibouti 🇩🇯) - 1979 till date 11. Rally of the Togolese People, RPT 🇹🇬 - 1969-2012 12. Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF 🇿🇼) - 1980 till date 13. Socialist Party of Senegal (PSS 🇸🇳) - 1960-2000 14. Kenya Afri

What I mean by Intergenerational Co-Leadership  On November 1st, 2018, I was tasked by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E Moussa Faki, with the assignment of being his first ever Special Envoy on Youth. When I was entrusted with this responsibility, I had already been in Pan-African activism for almost a decade. I come from a generation that started the first 21st century peaceful revolutions, a generation that changed the course of history, and the way we use technology, access information and demand reforms. When I was in the streets of Tunis, protesting during my country’s Revolution of Dignity, I thought after a decade the world will be better off because we, the millennials, will be in charge. Our generation is the most connected, innovative and better educated. However, we still live in an Africa where the average age of African leaders is 64 years old and the average age of the population is about 20.  Between the ‘led’, that is young people despite making up t

They say " When  America  sneezes , the  world catches a cold " but really, isn't that " When the world sneezes, Africa catches a cold"!  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 has worldwide impact.  Many of which would affect Africa , I think in three major ways so far:  1. Stranded African Students  Ukraine is a host to  8,000  Moroccans ,  4,000 Nigerians  and  3,500  Egyptians which  are among the top 10 countries with foreign students in the country besides tens of thousands of other African nationalities. In fact,  Africans make up more than 20% of Ukraine's international students, studying medicine, engineering and military affairs.      Immediately following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, my friends who are seeking help for them and their friends stranded in Ukraine, shared on social media their panic over the way out! flights grounded with no transportation from Kyiv and other cities with long dangerous routes to the borders of neighbouring c

 3 Priorities for African Youth  at the upcoming AU-EU Summit 2022  Everyone's eyes are on the leaders of the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) and their respective member states meeting this week for the 6th AU-EU Summit in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2022 to discuss the AU-EU partnership with the highest political involvement.  After over a decade of such convenings, I think there is fundamental change in the partnership that needs to take place. Before discussing "issues", there are relationship, process and engagement modalities that are very problematic and have not been addressed. We should not be expecting political solutions to political problems when Europe still treats Africa as its saver and colonial master in practice, despite the incoherence in speech that says otherwise.  In fact, the most important moment is not the summit itself, but the process towards the summit and the process afterwards. A testimonial to the failure of many of AU-EU summi