This year, The World Transformed will be taking place in Manchester for the first time, between 9-12 October. Two anniversaries are framing the internationalist and anti-imperialist politics of the festival this year: two years since October 7th, and 80 years since the Fifth Pan African Congress, which took place in Manchester in 1945 between October 15-21. At a time of heightened anti-imperialist struggle globally, we believe it is a core priority that we can platform speakers and voices from those struggles across our programme.

As part of this stream, we have been working with the following partners to organise a delegation from live struggles across the African continent, to participate in our sessions, both those which directly touch upon elements of Pan African and Anti-imperialist struggle, and wider issues such as climate repair, left electoral strategy and reparations.

Pan Afrikan Reparations and Internationalist Standing Conference (PARISC)

Kofi Mawuli Klu of Panafriindaba (https://panafriindaba.wordpress.com/spearheadcrew/)

Mumbi Kanyogo of Kenya Left Alliance

Through this we have assembled the following list of individuals from across the continent that we seek to bring to TWT 2025 to participate in the festival.

Miss Rachel Eyula Ofosua, the General Secretary of the UMOJAFRIKA Youth and Student Movement for Afrikan Unity (UMOJAFRIKA-YASMAU); who lives in Accra, Ghana;

Mr. Jerry Genya, Co-Principal Coordinator, Pro-Nkrumah Unity Movement Pan-Afrikan Youthguard Pioneers Action League (Pro-NUM/PAYPAL), who is also a young Teacher in the Peki Secondary-Technical School (PESTECH) in the town of Peki, in the Volta Region of Ghana;

Dr. Obaapanin Adwoa Oforiwaa Adu, Principal Coordinator, SANKOFAKUUMBA Pan-Afrikan Reparations Action Research Community of Practice (SANKOFAKUUMBA-PARARCOP), based at the UniversityofMedia, Arts and Communications (UniMAC), in Accra, Ghana; she is also the UniMAC Director of General Administration and Consular Services.

Njuki Gitethwa - one of the founders of Ukombozi Library and a convenor of Kenya Left Alliance, who lives in Nairobi.

Karamoko Diarra - Coordinating Secretary of Yerewolo Ton, and Secretary Member of the Mechanic and Garage Association of Bamako, Mali

Housseini Tahirou Amadou - General Secretary of Hadin Kan Matassa, is a Scholar Activists and educator currently promoting indigenous history and the historical memory of French colonialism in Niger. He is also featured in the BBC featured film Afrikan Apocalypse

Jean de Dieu Zabre - Opened World Association - Management Committee of the Toega Internationalist Solidarity Centre for PRALER, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Piaba Madokwe, former member of South African Parliament, Xhosa community educationist, Communications Coordinator for PARISC, South Africa (Azania)

We are looking to raise the funding for the travel cost of these delegates to bring them to Manchester for this important anniversary, so that they might fully participate in the discussions. We and our partners on this believe that this project will have great political significance, in properly marking the anniversary of PAC5, developing internationalist links, and anti-colonial politics in Britain and on the continent.

We estimate the cost to be around £800-1000 per head, so are looking to raise within the region of £6400-8000. All donations and pledges to this effort would be appreciated.

Time is of the essence. We are aiming to hit this target before August 29th so that we have enough time to secure visas.

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