Let The Guns Be Silenced
AND THE DRUMS ROLL
Africans Drumming In Unison To Silence The Guns
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Silence The Guns
Silencing the Guns advances peace; which is the active ingredient of a favourable risk rating of any country or region. Africa is home to some of the world’s fastest growing economies. To demonstrate that peace is inherent in every African, to encourage every country and its people to be themselves, express their uniqueness in African solidarity with others.
For centuries, drums have been used to communicate. Africa is the home of the drum; the drum is widely considered to be the heartbeat of the continent.
Let The Drums Roll
And the guns be silenced
AGENDA 2063
SILENCING THE GUNS
dotAfrica's Contribution to Agenda 2063
Agenda 2063 of the African Union lists 15 flagship projects as the key programmes and initiatives to accelerate Africa’s economic growth and development as well as to promote a common African identity through the celebration of our history and our vibrant culture. One of these flagship projects is “Silencing the Guns”. In his acceptance speech as the Chair of the African Union (AU) on February 09th President Cyril Ramaphosa expressly stated his commitment to make a “contribution to promote peace and security in our collective effort to “Silence the Guns”, emphasising the important agency of the “AU Peace and Security Council, the AU Commission and the collective membership” to “focus our efforts on conflict resolution across the African continent, especially those experiencing protracted conflicts”.
Apart from peace, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is another central theme of the AU’s Agenda 2063. The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and the Internet of Things (IoT) find expression in four of the 15 flagship projects of the AU, namely, the Pan-Africa E-Network, an African Virtual and E-University, Cyber Security and Encyclopedia Africana. The confluence of these five flagship projects is the need to use technology to promote the agenda of the AU, its strategic priorities and how all Africans can get involved to create the “Africa We Want”.
In highlighting collectivism in his speech President Ramaphosa was stressing this important role of the broader African humanity, from private to public sector organisations, non-profit community, faith-based structures and any other civil society formation in making Africa a peaceful continent. This is the reason ZA Central Registry NPC (ZACR) and Registry Africa (RA) hereby propose to lead a joint initiative for the broader African community to participate in a gesture of unity for peace in the year of South Africa’s Chairship of the AU. Technology is a lever that can be used to rally mass participation in such an initiative.
ZACR has already created the online infrastructure to upload the performances; and intends to approach Facebook or similar social media platforms to become a partner in popularizing and streaming the Africa Day celebration. To foster pan-African unity, documentation shall be translated into most of the official languages of the AU.
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Africans Drumming In Unison To Silence The Guns
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Shikwane Kekana
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Treynor tumwa
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#DrummingToSilenceTheGuns
“Let the drums roll and the guns be silenced.” Silencing the Guns is encouraging us to celebrate Africa Day, 25 May, by posting videos of ourselves drumming for peace. Here’s me accepting @lebomashile‘s challenge to make the drumming circle bigger!#SilencingtheGunsinAfrica pic.twitter.com/rVu9lqBnqJ
— Salamina Mosese (@salaminaM) May 20, 2020
Adding my voice to the Silencing of the Guns this Africa Day#SilencingtheGuns #DrummingtoSilencetheGuns #AfricaDay2020 pic.twitter.com/jjFK3wB8uz pic.twitter.com/Nuamgszh6L
— #AfricaIsOpenForBusiness (@VictorAfrica) May 20, 2020
Silencing the Guns is encouraging all of us to celebrate Africa Day, 25 May, by posting 30 second videos of you & your loved ones drumming during lockdown. Tag me & the other handles tagged in this tweet on your videos. Also log on to https://t.co/JLbRAH9Yah to share your videos. pic.twitter.com/l3rpxCdU9H
— Bessie’s Head (@lebomashile) May 19, 2020
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