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Pan-African and In-Diaspora United Royal Fathers/Elders Consultative Organisation (PADEFECO) has reiterated calls for unity and mutual bilateral relations among Africans in the Diaspora.
Founder of the association, Eze Soronnadi Ezebuiro, made the call at an event in Abuja on Saturday.
Ezebuiro said that Africans must wake up, safeguard and project the continent’s traditional and cultural norms as a way to maintain the black man’s identity.
He also lamented the continued exploitation of the continent by Western powers, insisting that it was time for a world free of racism.
The royal father said that PADEFECO was poised to promote a world culture where humanity had a single identity and a wider tolerance for religious and cultural diversity.
He also called on traditional rulers and opinion leaders across the world to cooperate with the association to give African descendants a sense of belonging in identifying their roots.
“PADEFECO hopes to create an Africa with comparative advantages in trade, economic resources and investments to be at par with developed economies.
“We are also using the opportunity of today’s event to tell the world that the continent’s cultures, traditions and norms are not extinct,” Ezebuiro added.
He enumerated the achievements of PADEFECO to include the adoption of Yoruba language into school curriculum in Brazil.
Ezebuiro further revealed that the organisation, covering Africa, the Caribbean, America, Asia and other continents, was collaborating with the international community to reduce poverty and crime on the continent.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the association has the likes of Prof. Pat Utomi, former Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro as members.(NAN)
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