APN Convenes a High-Level Webinar on Ghana’s 69th Independence Anniversary to Ask: What Will Africa Deliver by 2028?

On 6 March 1957, Kwame Nkrumah stood before a jubilant crowd and declared Ghana free. But in the same breath, he issued a warning that echoes louder today than ever: “The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.”
Sixty-nine years on, that liberation remains unfinished.
On Friday, 6 March 2026, the Africa Prosperity Network (APN) will convene one of the most important conversations on the continent’s future, a high-level webinar titled Ghana @ 69: From Africa’s Independence to Integration. With 2028 fast approaching, the deadline set under the Abuja Treaty for completing critical stages of Africa’s economic union, the clock is ticking. And the question is no longer what was promised. The question is: what will we actually deliver?
The Voices in the Room
This is not a conversation for the faint-hearted, and neither are the people having it:
• Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma — Veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, the architect of the Agenda 2063, former South African Cabinet minister, and former Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Advisory Council Chairperson of the Africa Prosperity Network. Few people alive understand the machinery and the frustrations of continental governance better.
• Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko — Founder and Executive Chairman of the Africa Prosperity Network, and one of Africa’s most forceful advocates for economic integration. He built this platform precisely for moments like this.
• Samia Nkrumah — Daughter of the man who started it all. As a politician, diplomat, and pan-Africanist in her own right, Samia carries both a legacy and a mission.
• Ras Mubarak — Politician, award-winning journalist, and one of Ghana’s sharpest pan-African voices, known for speaking truth to power on the continent’s integration failures.
• Ambassador Ayanda Ngwane — Widely celebrated as the “Yaya of Africa”, Ayanda is a pan-African media executive, journalist, television host, AU Agenda 2063 Ambassador, Founder of Ayanda Media Network and MD BRICS TV West and Central Africa Bureau. A strategic communicator who has spent over two decades amplifying authentic African narratives across the continent and beyond, she brings both a powerful platform and a pan-African heartbeat to this conversation.
• Michael Owusu Addo (Sarkodie) — Ghana’s most decorated rapper and a shrewd entrepreneur, Sarkodie is not merely a musical icon; he is a brand that has broken borders across Africa and the world. His presence signals something important: integration is not only a political project. It is a cultural one.
• Livingstone Etse Satekla (Stonebwoy) — One of Africa’s finest Afro-Dancehall artists, Stonebwoy has built a fanbase that stretches from Accra to Lagos to London to Kingston. He embodies what a borderless Africa already looks like in music and what it can look like everywhere else.
What’s at Stake
The Abuja Treaty promised Africa a customs union, a common market, a single currency, and the free movement of 1.5 billion people. The African Continental Free Trade Area was supposed to be the engine. But with trade barriers still suffocating intra-African commerce, the Free Movement Protocol lagging in ratification, and 2028 looming, the gap between promise and reality is impossible to ignore.
This webinar will not simply catalogue the failures. It will demand answers, surface solutions, and produce a concrete 2028 Delivery Scorecard, a clear-eyed reckoning of what must happen in the next 24 months. Register to attend: www.africaprosperitynetwork.com
Beyond the Webinar: Make Your Voice Heard
Integration is not just a matter for heads of state and treaty rooms. It is a demand that every African citizen can and must make. Join the Make Africa Borderless Now! movement — and sign the petition today at www.makeafricaborderlessnow.com
Nkrumah said unite or perish. The choice is still ours.
About Make Africa Borderless Now! Make Africa Borderless Now! is a pan-African movement dedicated to accelerating the free movement of people, goods, and capital across Africa, and to holding governments and institutions accountable to the continent’s integration commitments.