This keynote address will focus on  four key themes. First, it provides a historical background to the decolonization of Africa involving five centuries of European-led transatlantic slavery and colonialism. Second, it will assess security decolonization focusing on Africa's efforts to achieve Ali Mazrui's Pax Africana through the United Nations (UN) and Africa’s regional bodies such as the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States. It will highlight the role of the two African post-Cold War UN Secretaries-General: Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan, as well as African thinkers such as Ali Mazrui and Francis Deng. The third key focus of the address will be political decolonization centred around the concept of non-alignment and prophets like Gamal Abdel Nasser and Kwame Nkrumah, the 1955 Bandung Conference, and the emergence and current efforts to strengthen the Non-aligned Movement. The fourth theme will be economic decolonization focused around unsuccessful efforts by Africa and the global South from the 1970s to achieve a New International Economic Order and technology transfer, as well as current efforts to reform the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO, highlighting the ideas of Adebayo Adedeji, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Thandika Mkandawire.