LIVE | Day 2: Samora Machel Symposium 2026 – Pan-African Futures

Join us live from Rhodes University for the final day of the Samora Machel Symposium: Samora Machel, Liberation Movements, and the Unfinished Decolonial Project.

Tuesday’s programme examines memory, decolonisation, reparations, women combatants and the future of Pan-African cooperation.

Programme highlights include:

• Memory, reparations and restitution
• Memory and the erasure of women combatants
• Machel’s Pan-African principles and reimagining Africa
• Poetry and spoken-word presentations
• Recording and archiving Africa’s liberation histories
• Declaration on decolonial futures
• Closing reflections

Date: Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Programme: 09:00–15:45
Venue: Eden Grove Blue Lecture Theatre, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa

A Luta Continua.