The Diaspora region and Afro-descendents conference of the 9th Pan-African Congress of Lomé 2024 (Governmental Segment) takes place on August 31, 2024 in El Salvador, BAHIA.
The conference, whose theme is “Memory, restitution, reparation and reconstruction”, was attended by leading figures from the Caribbean, the Americas and the Pacific, including the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Afro-descendant countries and civil society were also present.
In choosing the theme for this 6th and final pre-congress, as a prelude to the 9th Pan-African Congress to be held in Lomé from October 29 to November 02 2024, the High Committee in charge of the Decade of African Roots and Diasporas 2021-2031, set up by the 34th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, was undoubtedly keen to put the essential issues so dear to the hearts of Africans and Afro-descendants back at the heart of the debate.
The conference was marked by a number of speeches, including that of the Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration and Togolese Abroad, Prof. Robert DUSSEY, who said that the conference marked a historic step in relations between the peoples of Africa and their sisters and brothers who, by the fruit of history, found themselves on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The head of Togolese diplomacy took the opportunity to pay a vibrant tribute to the Brazilian authorities for their political courage and tireless struggle for a Brazilian society reconciled with itself.
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Read the closing speech of Prof. Robert DUSSEY
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