Professor KwesiPrah presented during this forum two communications. The firstabout the workers in the African historyfrom the beginning tonineteen century, and the second one about the origins and the history of t Pan-Africanism. Professor Prah described work as being “thefeature defining of the humanity” before adding that “Work has been responsible of the production of goods, helps us to produce surpluses and many of the other things in the world. Thus work is the center of human being emergence in the world ".
The Panafricanism, in particular “ideals and problem of the Panafricanism "was also the theme which inspires the very known professor and Congolese historian Elikia M’ Bokolo. He exposed the last day of the forum. Professor M’ Bokolo enumerated various types of Panafricanism, in particular: the Panafricanism of congress and circumstances, the Panafricanism of religious inspiration, the laic Panafricanism, the Panafricanism of the Diaspora and the one of the populations of the continent … After redrawing the historyof the movement and his actors, he made the link between the African Panafricanism and renaissance. He concluded his exposeby saying that the Africans have to “make a collective coverage of their history, like certain emerging countries as Brazil, India ".
Except of the communications, the forum was piece of furniture of plenary on themes such as “World Trade Organization and other international commercial questions concernAfrica” and the various reports concerning Africa. There were also presentations on these report, in particular those of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the World Bank, UNCTAD and theEconomic Commission of Nations on Africa. The World Bank Reportabout less developed countries by UNCTAD is the most complete and the most reliable sourceof analyses and socioeconomic data on the poorest nations of the world. UNDP reports about human development, and those of IMF, World Bank, summarize the situations country by country, headways, classifications and the failures. All these reports allowed the African trade union leaders to know about these various institutions vision of Africa and which strategies to adopt towards them.
It is thus with good resolutions and the promise to work and reach the objectives of Panafricanism and African Unity that the African trade union leaders have separated with the hope to meet in one year for the African trade union second New Year school.