Reimagining ‘African renaissance’ in a New World Order

Recently, I watched a viral Video of French President Emmanuel Macron demanding silence from a loud audience of African students during a culture and youth session at Nairobi University in Kenya. Despite macrons disciplining viral video and the Nairobi marathon with the Kenyan two times Olympic gold winner Eliud Kipchoge and 25 Billion US dollar pledge, mostly, what caught my attention was his statement claiming to be a true Pan African despite being a European. Mr. Macron stated “We are the true Pan Africanists” we believe that Africa is a continent and that this continent has an enormous amount to build, it is the youngest in the world and therefore has an extraordinary demographic dividend, it is the one with the greatest growth in the world”. Macron’s Pan African claim received public outrage, street demonstrations, diatribe and online condemnation across Africa; I was equally compelled to analyse Macron’s claim, sentence by sentence, given that Macron is not an ordinary president of any Europe country but a president of France ‘a coloniser’ and G7 and veto member in the United Nations Security Council where Africa has no representation. I kept wondering, what he meant by saying “We are the true pan-Africanists and we believe that Africa is a continent? Is it because his colonial predecessors scrambled and partitioned Africa or probably they still consider the shared borderlines as territories? I wish to correct the French president and other like minds that historically, biblically, scientifically and geographically Africa is the oldest continent with the oldest human skull of 315,000 years at Jebel Irhoud archaeological sites in Morocco. Lest we forget, that the landmass surrounded by Indian Ocean in East, Atlantic Ocean in West, Mediterranean Sea in North and Red sea in North East was called Alkebulan before being named Africa by the Romans in 146 BCE. The continent has the oldest historical civilizations of Kemet, Kush, Nok, Aksum and Aethiopia, therefore th