FROM ASPIRATION TO PRAXIS - THE PAFM PATH TO A UNITED AFRICAN STATES BY 2030: EARLY ORGANIZATION AND FINANCING

The first question on the Call for the First Pan African Federalist Congress asks, "Do you believe that the political unification of the African States is a matter of utmost urgency for Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora?"

At the beginning of each PAFM meeting, we recite the pledge which includes, "We are determined to spare no effort or resources that belong to us for the success".

At the end of each PAFM meeting, we recite a second pledge which includes, "We Pledge to our African Nation to the Building of a Better People, and a Better World Our Total Devotion, Our Total Resources a And the Total Power of Our Mortal Lives."

If each and everyone who desires a United African States would INTERNALIZE the utmost urgency and pledge to spare no resources/our total resources, then we would already have the economic foundation to derive finances to fuel logistical needs of the PAFM. 

According to the PAFM Charter:

"Resources and budget.

Section 1. The PAFM committees (IPC, RCC, NCC or NPC and LCC or LPC) fund their activities through their own resources.

Section 2. The Movement's resources come from contributions, donations, bequests and other forms of mobilization of resources that are not contrary to the law.”

The path towards economic liberation is through the coalition building that results in the sovereign power capable of organizing and commanding a sovereign continental economy that serves the needs of African people. The most progressive people and businesses with economic means won't wait for the establishment of the United African States, however. They will see the need to finance the PAFM campaign as "early adopters". As the coalition grows, the economic capacity will automatically increase.

At this moment, what is important is finding 5 to 15 people in each capital city who can carry out instructions that have already been determined. All else will follow from there.

Outside the PAFM, all the Pan African discussions about everything concerning the well-being of African people will continue, but inside the PAFM the focus and conversation will always be: have all the potential Pan African Federalists in a location been invited to join the coalition for the First Pan African Federalist Congress and how many have joined the coalition?

So, in terms of praxis: 

1. Establish functioning NCCs in 60 countries in the nine regions of the PAFM: North Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, North America, Latin America, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia.  Each NCC consists of the National Coordinator, the Deputy National Coordinator, a Secretary General, a Deputy Secretary General, the Chairs of the NCC Commissions (10) and the representatives of the Local Coordinating Committees (LCCs).  So that's 14 people for each of the 60 NCCs or 840 people willing to internalize the Call and the Pledge and SERVE. As a National Coordinator, all you have to do is look for 5 to 15, but not more than 20 people (your staff) to form the National Coordinating Committee (NCC).

Note: to convene the First Pan African Federalist Congress, two-thirds of of the 60 NCCs (that's 40 NCCs) must be functioning and send delegates, so that's a total of 560 people. So the first goal is to recruit and train 560 people covering all 9 regions by the end of 2025. Those 560 people will be the economic foundation to derive finances to fuel logistical needs  - charity begins at home.

Per the instruction in the PAFM Roadmap to Victory that says “ensure that their Executive Committee is fully functional. . . . Create a reliable periodical (quarterly) evaluation mechanism for the progress of the NCCs.” This has been done and the PAFM in 2025 will systematically monitor progress towards establishing the functioning NCCs.

2. Functioning NCCs complete the task of coalition building: According to the PAFM document, SIMPLIFY THE BUILDING OF THE PAFM IN YOUR COUNTRY, STATE OR PROVINCE, the former RCC Coordinator for the West Africa Region stated,

"In a recent conversation with the General Secretary of the IPC who is in charge of overseeing the building of the Structures of the PAFM (RCCs, NCCs and LCCs), he reminded me how simple the Strategy to build the PAFM at the National, State and Provincial levels were, easy to implement and does not require a legal status. He explained to me, and I agreed with him, that very little and affordable financial means are needed for most people to build the PAFM coalition and hold the Constitutive General Assembly of the National, State or Provincial Preparatory Committee of the Congress. . . . Now, when you have a complete committee in place (called a functional committee), you contact all the organizations in the capital with a view to forming a coalition with them."

So this is ALL the PAFM needs to focus on right now. Everything else is extraneous. It's just two steps, two instructions. And this is why we now have a PAFM Fundamentals/Leadership Training every 2nd Saturday of the month to get us to the 560 people and 40 functioning NCCs.

I remind us all that “The PAFM’s challenge is therefore not to convince the people it is targeting of the justness of its cause but to prove that it can be trusted as a leader in the effort to unite the African states.” We prove we can be trusted by doing the ground work that is essential and establishing the 40-60 functioning NCCs.