Statesmen have demanded for revision of the African refugee law to have one integrated political unit as a way of walking in the footsteps of the former President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah.

They made the call on September 20 at Makerere University in Kampala during Kwame Nkrumah’s public lecture to commemorate his struggles towards an integrated Africa.

“What we are saying is that let’s push for the vision and commitment to see Africa free, independent to be able to determine our own destiny and decisions,” Chief Guest Ruhakana Rugunda said.

Article one of the refugee convention defines a refugee as a person who for the fear of persecution over race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality.

European white men convened in Berlin, Germany in the mid-1880s for the international conference to decide on the fate of African scramble and partition.

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