Excerpt from Pan Africn Daily TV show "Pan African Federalist Movement Team USA" May 15, 2021 featuring PAFM General Secretary Joomay Faaye
Our Cause, “the urgent need to unite politically the African States in less than a generation” was launched in February 2015 in Dakar and was confirmed to be viable by the Pre-First Pan African Federalist Congress meeting held in Accra, Ghana from 8th to 13th December 2018. Nine of the ten Regional Committees planned to carry out this campaign have been set up and more than 50 National Committees out of the roughly 60 that are planned to be established have been set up. A team, the International Preparatory Committee (IPC) has also been set up to prepare for the Congress.
The Pre-Congress took place in Accra from December 08 to 13, 2018 and issued the following Final Declaration:
FINAL DECLARATION
COMMEMORATION OF THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CONFERENCE (1958 - 2018) AND THE PAN AFRICAN FEDERALIST MOVEMENT PRE-CONGRESS ACCRA, GHANA 8 - 13 December, 2018
On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the historic All African People’s Conference held in Accra from 8th to 13th December 1958, the Kwame Nkrumah Pan African Centre (KNAC) and the Pan-African Federalist Movement (PAFM) convened a gathering in Accra, Ghana, on the same dates in 2018, at the Bank of Ghana's Auditorium at the University of Ghana, in Legon.
The choice of Ghana to host the commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the All African People’s Conference and the Pre-First Pan African Federalist Congress is justified by the important role this country has played in the history of the Pan-Africanist Movement. This event was enhanced by the presence of the President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo, Dankwa AKUFO-ADDO who said in his speech: "My generation can fulfill the dreams of our founding fathers and founding mothers: the total unification of the continent and the African peoples, including those of the Diaspora and Afro Descendants". This statement of the President of the Republic of Ghana is in complete harmony with the spirit and vision of the Pan-African Federalist Movement.
During the pre-Congress, the delegates who came from various regions and countries on the continent of Africa and her Diaspora dealt with the following issues:
The call for the political unification of Africa,
The manifesto of the Pan-African Federalist Movement,
The terms of reference for the upcoming First Pan African Federalist Congress,
The charter of First Pan African Federalist Congress,
The Concept of the First Pan African Federalist Congress
The Strategy to Build the Pan African Federalist Movement and its campaign machine,
Fundraising and Management strategies for financing the Movement and its campaign,
The communication and mobilization strategy for the Movement and its Campaign,
The tenets of Kwame Nkrumah's book "Africa must unite" were presented.
When this work was completed, the Movement decided on the official proclamation of its existence, three years after the call of the Provisional International Initiative Committee (CIIP) launched in Dakar in 2015.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐆𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐌𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐀 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒
The Pan African Federalist Movement (PAFM) is being built around the 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬. It is a grassroots coalition of organizations and individuals for the political unification of the States on the continent of Africa and those in the Caribbean where the majority of the citizens are of African descent. Its approach is a bottom-up mobilization. The sole issue of this initiative is to campaign for the creation of a Federal Union between all the States around the world where people who see themselves as Africans make up the overwhelming majority of their citizenry.
This campaign is divided in several phases which are:
1.Exploratory;
2. Pre-Congress;
3. Preparation and convening of the First Pan African Federalist Congress;
4. Campaign for the Referendums which will allow the people to decide whether or not they want their State to be a member of the United African States;
5. The Convening of the Second Pan African Federalist Congress and other activities during the transitional phase between the victory of our campaign and the taking of the oath by the new government of the United African States.
6. Dissolution of PAFM after the institutions of the Federal Government have been put in place (Legislative, Executive and Judiciary).
𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏: 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍, 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐍-𝐀𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.
This is the period during which most of the construction of the Pan African Federalist Movement (PAFM) will take place. The creation of the National Coordinating Committees (NCC) as viable entities, and their mutation into National Preparatory Committees (NPC) for the Congress, the mobilization of funds and the improvement of the visibility and credibility of the PAFM and its campaign will take place during this period.
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒏. These referendums will allow the citizens of these states to directly participate for the first time in the debate on the political unification of African states. The International Preparatory Committee (IPC), the Regional, National and local Committees constitute the skeleton of our Campaign Machine for these referendums.
During this phase, the IPC will make sure that all the Regional Committees are established and functional. The Regional Committees will do the same regarding the National Committees of the countries in their Region. The National Committees will make sure that the local committees involving the masses at the grassroots level can reach out to the majority of the people in the country at short notice.
It is during this phase that resource mobilization, at all the levels of the Campaign Machine, will be intensified. It is also during this period that a plan for the management of the momentum of the Campaign so that it peaks at the right time, not too early, not too late, will be put into execution.
All the PAFM is doing at present is building a campaign machine (and not yet mobilizing the popular masses). This means, building coalitions at the national, state, or provincial levels with organizations and individuals who are ready and willing to participate in accelerating the political unification of African states on the African continent and the Caribbean islands. The delegations sent by these national, state, or provincial coalitions will participate in the first Pan-African Congress.
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭. This is comparable to building an army. 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒇 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏.
This is exactly what the PAFM is doing now. Regional and National Coordinating Committees have already been formed.
If you would like to join these leadership structures, the first step is completing the Form at https://www.pafmuas.org/take-action
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