Proclamation to Commemorate 130 Years of the Great African Victory with the Declaration of the African Adwa Victory Pan African University
Drafted by Professor Mammo Muchie & Prof. Hilary Inyang
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| The Office of the President and Founder of The African Union Students' Council (AUSC)"For The Better Africa We Deserve" has great pleasure to share to the AUSC International community about the African ADWA Victory event celebration, the AUSC President's Special Advisor Professor Mammo Muchie is delighted to take us through this heroic celebration with below concept note: |
The Adwa Victory holds significance as the inspiration for all colonized peoples worldwide to resist colonialism. March 1, 2026, marks the 130th anniversary of the Great Adwa African Victory—a special historic milestone to transform all Africans into change makers and game-changers. Let us stand together to celebrate these 130 years by founding the African Adwa Pan-African University, turning a long-held promise into reality. 
All Africans and humanity who resisted colonial mischief need the Great Adwa African Victory to endure forever in the eternal river of time. Africans must look back to appreciate what brought victory, so they can move forward to achieve unity and end all divisive colonial relics. In 1924, we founded the Adwa Great African Victory Association (AGAVA) to celebrate the Adwa Victory anniversary through squares, museums, parks, heritage sites, libraries, schools, scholarships, universities, statues, films, and a handbook translated and published in different languages.
Core Proclamation
The 130 years since the Great Adwa Victory must be forever remembered by implementing the proclamation to establish the Adwa Pan-African University.
The Adwa African Victory should have been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site—a resource for generations to value and learn from this great African anti-colonial triumph. Pan-African education should have promoted the African Struggle Heritage that the Adwa Victory represents by establishing a special Adwa Pan-African University much earlier than now. Efforts to create the Adwa Pan African University have been made before, but it has not yet been realized. This time, let us unite and do everything possible to found and launch it without delay, rather than proceeding separately. The university should be open to all in the Global South and the rest of the world who seek humanity's unity in one peaceful, secure world community—learning from Pan-Africanism's unity guidance to foster safety, peace, security, and well-being by valuing the humanity life saver complex over the selfish, interest-driven humanity-killer military-industrial complex.
Special physical and digital libraries in Adwa should record and showcase all African struggle histories, driven by the foundation of the Adwa Pan-African University. Let this university's education, knowledge, research, and innovation ensure the Africana world never surrenders to injustice again.
At the 130th anniversary of the Great Adwa African Victory, the Adwa Pan-African University should select fundraising volunteers to create an Education and Research Endowment Fund for campuses in East, West, South, North, and Central Africa, as well as the Diaspora in the Caribbean—and even include campuses in Asia and the Americas/Latin America.
Both physical, virtual, and hybrid education and research processes can be developed. We need funding to kick-start this unique Adwa Pan-African global university, uniting Africa through a high-quality intellectual power value chain that revives, excavates, and resurrects rich philosophies and indigenous knowledge curricula.
Let us make the 130th anniversary of the Great Adwa African Victory more than a commemoration—a time for rebirth through full dedication to implementing the proclamation of the Adwa Pan African University in this sacred moment.
University Vision
Let us make the Adwa Pan-African University a symbol of Africa's intellectual sovereignty—a continental home for knowledge built on our own philosophies, sciences, and civilizational heritage. There is no need to copy or mimic inherited colonial academic models. It is time to generate and pioneer an indigenous, Pan-African curriculum rooted in African realities, languages, innovation systems, and futures.
Let us create a global campus structure—across East, West, North, South, and Central Africa, plus the Diaspora in the Caribbean and the Americas—that becomes a living network of unity. Each campus can specialize according to regional strengths while remaining interconnected under one continental vision, mission, and objectives. May the Diaspora campus especially serve as a bridge reconnecting the global African family in research, policy, culture, and economic transformation.
The Adwa Pan-African University can become a center for science, technology, governance, and industrial transformation—advancing AI, renewable energy, biotechnology, manufacturing, public administration, and continental integration. It can train a new generation of African leaders who are confident architects of Africa's development path, driven by moral intelligence and free from all risks and dangers.
Let all in Africa and the world know that from the Great Adwa African Victory in 1896, it is time for Africa to achieve full intellectual and indigenous knowledge sovereignty on this 130th liberation anniversary through highly structured institutional unity.
Like Osiris University, which applies Ubuntu philosophy in virtual teaching, the Adwa Pan-African University can begin with a digital and virtual campus model to prove commitment matters more than infrastructure in early stages.
Let us unite to make the Adwa Pan-African University the intellectual backbone of Africa's second liberation—uniting knowledge, innovation, policy, and identity under one shared future by appreciating differences and celebrating unity's purpose. Let it inspire
generations yet unborn and stand as a monument of living minds that transforms memory into movement and victory into vision. The spirit of the Battle of Adwa deserves to live not only in history books but in institutions shaping Africa's intellectual destiny, guided by the Adwa Pan-African University.
Actions to Seed the Foundation
The Adwa Pan-African University needs strong, visionary funding partners from the African Union, development banks, private sector champions, philanthropic foundations, and the global African Diaspora.
Short-term (2026-2027)
1. Establish a planning committee
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Identify 10-15 key stakeholders, including African leaders, academics, and private sector representatives. •
Define the committee's terms of reference, including roles, responsibilities, and timelines.
• Hold an inaugural meeting to kick-start the planning process. 2. Conduct a feasibility study
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Assess market demand for programs, including potential student enrollment and job market prospects.
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Analyze competition from existing universities and higher education institutions in Africa.
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Develop financial projections, including start-up costs, operational expenses, and revenue streams.
3. Develop a concept paper
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Outline the university's mission, vision, objectives, and academic programs.
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Define the governance structure, including the planning committee and future governing council.
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Identify potential partnerships with African and international institutions.
4. Secure initial funding
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Pursue funding from African governments, international organizations, and private donors.
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Develop a funding proposal with a detailed budget and implementation plan.
• Identify sources like grants, loans, and investments.
Medium-term (2027-2030)
1. Identify campus locations
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Finalize the six-campus structure: East, West, South, North, Central Africa, and Diaspora.
• Conduct site visits and assessments.
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Develop infrastructure plans for buildings, facilities, and technology.
2. Develop academic programs
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Design interdisciplinary programs in African Studies, Development, Culture, Science, and Technology. •
Create curriculum frameworks, course outlines, syllabi, and assessments.
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Identify faculty and staff for program development and teaching, including indigenous knowledge excavation.
3. Recruit faculty and staff
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Attract African and international experts for academic and administrative teams.
• Develop recruitment strategies like job postings and networking. • Offer competitive salaries and benefits.
4. Establish partnerships
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Collaborate with African universities, research institutions, and private sector.
• Create MOUs, contracts, and joint research proposals.
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Pursue student exchanges, faculty collaborations, and joint degrees.
Long-term (2030+)
1. Launch the university
• Welcome the first student cohort and launch programs.
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Develop marketing and outreach, including website and social media.
2. Expand research initiatives
• Foster collaborations on African solutions to global challenges.
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Develop centers like the African Centre for Development Studies and Institute for African Innovation.
• Secure grants, contracts, and philanthropic support. 3. Grow endowments and fundraising
• Secure sustainable sources like fees and philanthropy. • Implement donor outreach, events, and campaigns.
4. Evaluate and improve
• Assess performance in academics, research, and satisfaction.
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Use quality assurance, indicators, benchmarking, and accreditation.
Key Partnerships
1. African Union
• Leverage support for promotion and Agenda 2063 research. • Access grants and technical assistance.
2. African Development Bank
• Pursue funding and collaborate on reports.
• Access loans and grants.
3. International organizations
• Partner with UNESCO, UNDP for expertise.
• Develop programs and access funding.
4. Strategic collaborators
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Collaborate with AGAVA, NES, ASSIST, RISA, and Common Health Awards CIC.
Conclusion
The 130th anniversary of the Great Adwa African Victory calls us not only to remembrance but to responsibility. It challenges Africans and the global African family to translate a heroic past into an institutional future by establishing the Adwa Pan-African University as a living monument of knowledge, unity, and liberation. If we act with urgency, solidarity, and moral courage, this university can become the intellectual backbone of Africa's second liberation— where memory becomes movement, victory becomes vision, and Adwa's spirit guides generations yet unborn toward a just, peaceful, and sovereign African future.
Published on Saturday February 28th, 2026
Approved by
H.E.Dr. IRAGUHA BANDORA Yves, MD, RN, BScN, MMed Neurosurgery Resident University of RWANDA/President and Founder of The African Union Students' Council (AUSC)"For The Better Africa We Deserve".
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