[1] The festival was first held in September 2010 to honor Kwame Nkrumah's dedication to cultural and intellectual activity centered in Africa.
Its goal was to advance a new and liberating Pan-African cultural economy that will serve the material interests of Africans.
The festival took place as the COVID-19 pandemic swept Africa and this was the first to be digitally curated, hosted fully online and globally broadcast.
The festival has since turned it into a digital archive to serve as a Pan-African knowledge resource.
The contents include the latest intellectual and political dialogues among pan-Africanist feminist, youths and other Information Age groups and movements dedicated to bringing about positive change.