Africa Day is celebrated worldwide every May 25, a date that remembers the 1963 meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where 32 leaders of the continent's States formed the Organization of African Unity (OAU), currently the African Union (AU).
Since then, the celebrations in Cuba are special and, in addition to strengthening political and government ties, they promote cultural ties and different opportunities for cooperation in various sectors.
Many reasons underlie the evocations, including the struggle of some 380 thousand Cubans, for more than three decades, in defense of the sovereignty and integrity of various countries, where more than two thousand lost their lives.
Thousands of collaborators from the island have served in public health programs, education, sports and other sectors, while more than 31 thousand Africans studied here.
More than a million Africans arrived on the island of Cuba, all victims of the infamous slave trade, who fertilized and marked our culture with their traditions, customs and beliefs.
We Cubans of these times pay tribute to Mother Africa.