Luanda – The International Association of Young Lumumbistas (AIJL) based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Friday placed António Agostinho Neto, the first President of Angola, among the greatest pan-Africanist leaders in the world.
The information was released by the head of AIJL at the launch ceremony aimed at preparing work on the First Pan-African Youth Conference, held in that country’s capital, Kinshasa.
According to a press note from the Angolan Embassy in the DRC, the name of Agostinho Neto joins the list of several world leaders.
They include Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Sylvanus Olympio (Togo), Amílcar Cabral (Guinea Bissau and Cabo Verde), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Fidel de Castro (Cuba) and Che Guevara (Argentina).
Still, the list features names such as Ben-Bella (Algeria), Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya), Alioune Diop (Senegal), Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal), Bob Marley (Jamaica), Martin Luther King Jr. (US), Malcom X (US) Steve Biko (South Africa), Desmond Tutu (South Africa), Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso).
AIJL is an organisation created on June 19, 2009 by a group of young people residing in the DRC, with the purpose of extolling the political, economic, social and cultural history of Africa.
Source: Angola Press News Agency