Algiers, Algeria, September 5, 2025 (PMO) — Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew, has called for Africa and its diaspora to seize the moment to achieve economic sovereignty, declaring that the rise of ‘Global Africa’ is unstoppable.
Speaking on Day Two of the Intra-African Trade Fair in Algiers, during the Global Africa Diaspora Day, Prime Minister Drew was one of three Caribbean leaders to deliver remarks alongside Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados and Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell of Grenada.
Tracing the historical roots of Pan-Africanism, Prime Minister Drew underscored that the Caribbean diaspora has long been central to Africa’s liberation journey. “We are to remember the words of His Most Excellent, the Honorable Garvey, when he said that Africa for Africans own, under God”.
He continued, “We also want to recognize the role played by the diaspora in the liberation of Africa… all of what we seek to do has to be placed in its historical significance, so that we recognize that this coming together has not just started. It is a continuation of a great journey.”
Citing Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture and the Caribbean intellectuals who shaped the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester, alongside figures like Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, and William E.B. Du Bois, Prime Minister Drew stressed that the call for unity and freedom has always been a collective endeavor.
“That Pan African meeting where the concept of decolonization took root so that it should go into action… it was declared then that Africa and people of African descent must be free, and history speaks the rest.”
He urged that today’s struggle must go beyond political liberation. “We have taken it in stages, fighting against slavery, fighting against colonization, fighting for independence and liberation. And today, the next chapter in our journey is to fight for economic sovereignty.”
Linking Africa’s advancement to humanity’s progress, Dr. Drew expressed, “The lifting of Africa and its peoples will automatically result in the upliftment of humanity as a whole. We cannot see ourselves as a fragment and separated from humanity.”
He also emphasized that the vision of Global Africa must deliver tangible benefits, trade, investment, cultural flourishing, and poverty reduction. He also called for peace and unity across the continent and diaspora. “We have to be those who need to resolve our own issues and challenges… the rise of global Africa, that seed has been struck that cannot be stopped. Therefore, the train has left this station. It is moving along.”
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