MOCI opens Pan-African library

The Citizen Movement (Mouvement Citoyen, MOCI) political party with headquarters in Yaounde has opened a library dedicated to promoting the Pan-African philosophy.

The library dubbed “Pantheon du Panafricanisme” that went operational in June 2015, already contains dozens of books and collections of films that portray African.

According to the President of MOCI, Prof. Yimgaing Moyo Théophile, the five-year-old nationalist and pan-African party has been on standby since the 2013 legislative and municipal elections. The party’s headquarters, he said, is an assembly avenue for all Cameroonian Pan-Africanists.

Thus, monthly conferences on thematic issues of African renaissance shall be held as from September bringing together African patriarchs, intellectuals and students. The importance of the library center and a series of conferences are intended to inculcate African values as well as expose them to African history and evolution.

Though no financial estimates of the library project have been made, the party president says goodwill gesture in terms of donations of pan-African books and films shall be highly welcomed. Films on the lives and death of Thomas Sankara and Mummar Ghadafi and over a dozen of others are also available at the “Pantheon du Panafricanisme”.

Africa, Yimgaing regretted, is rich in natural and human resources but remains the poorest continent. Reflections during the conference would therefore go beyond polemics and chart the way forward for the country’s political and economic unity and growth.