AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR

“Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations”

WHEREAS the Heads of States and Governments of the AU, at the 37th Ordinary Assembly of the Union held on 17th – 18th February 2024 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, decided pursuant to Assembly/AU/Dec.884(XXXVII) that the theme of the Year for 2025 will be ‘‘Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations’’; and

WHEREAS The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Commission) meeting in Banjul, The Gambia at its 81st Ordinary Session from 17 October to 6 November 2024 recognized in its ACHPR/Res. 616 (LXXXI) the need to host a Roundtable discussion on Reparations and the African Union 6th Region during the African Union Theme for the Year 2025 - “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”, and called on the Chairperson of Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities and Minorities in Africa and the Chairperson of ECOSOCC to lead this initiative and co-organize the Roundtable in conjunction with associated mechanisms in the Commission while it urged the African Diaspora organizations to establish an appropriate process for determining modalities for elections and elect twenty (20) CSOs to the AU ECOSOCC General Assembly, in conformity with Article 5 (3) of the States of AU ECOSOCC, and to cooperate with the African Commission, AU ECOSOCC, the AU Member States and other relevant stakeholders to make the AU Theme of the Year 2025 a success; and

WHEREAS no legal framework for the African Diaspora as the 6th Region of the African Union currently provides for the twenty-representatives to become members of the AU ECOSOCC 4th General Assembly, and thereby leaves the 6th Region without “seats at the table” during the AU themed year; and

WHEREAS this is the THE RIGHT-NOW UNIFICATION MOMENT;

Therefore, we the undersigned, hereby form the AFRICAN DIASPORA 6TH REGION UBUNTU COALITION FOR ENGAGING IN THE AU THEME OF THE YEAR for the purpose of fulfilling the ACHPR Resolution 616 invitation to elect twenty representatives to cooperate with the African Commission, AU ECOSOCC, the AU Member States and other relevant stakeholders to make the AU Theme of the Year 2025 a success. Specifically, the coalition will represent a united front of the African Diaspora 6th Region and present its reparations agenda at the following during the first half of the year and leading up to the African Union mid-term Assembly in July:

April 14: 4th Session of UN PFPAD

May: ACHPR-AU ECOSOCC Roundtable

May 23-25: Vatican Reparations Symposium

June: Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) Annual Conference

Signed:

  1. Siphiwe Baleka,  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PGRNA) and President of the Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society in America (BBHAGSIA)

  2. Fabien Anthony, Pan-African Council, President

  3. Jasmin Rowe , EWF Local #14 Shashemane, President; SOAD Ambassador, JRDC and TTI member

  4. Iman Uqdah Hameen, Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC), Diaspora 126+, African American Association of Ghana (AAAG), Juneteenth Coalition of Greater New Haven, CT (JCGNH), National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF), African Diaspora Development Institute (ADDI), 524 Ghana, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Wikipedia AfroCrowd, Member

  5. Cliff Kuumba, Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC), Board Member

  6. Ronald Jones, ADDI, Member

  7. Charles Thigpen, African Diaspora Development Institute (ADDI), Member

  8. Dennisha Rivers,Vision of Life Outreach Ministries, President

  9. Shahid Ali, Afrodescendant Nation, Member

  10. Shaheed Hannah, ADDI, Member

  11. Delvin Hawkins, The Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society in America, Member

  12. Erika Asamoah, African American Association of Ghana (AAAG) & Ubuntu, Other Executive Officer

  13. Clarence Davidson, Center for Community Advocac, President

  14. Bro.Jami Luqman, Republic of New Afrika Grassroots Mobilization, President

  15. Linda Cowels, Anointed Community Services International, President

  16. Samuel Wilson, State of the African Diaspora (SOAD) Other Executive Officer

  17. Everton Wilson GACuk, Other Executive Officer

  18. Paul Agbo Starconnectdots Ltd, President and Numidoria kingdomMember

  19. Monteria Robinson, Jamarion Robinson Foundation, President

  20. Otis Thomas, T.A.P. Project, President

  21. Azania Heyward-James, The Cornerstone Collective 2020 & Damê Consultants Global, President

  22. Keith Robinson, Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society in America (BBHAGSIA), Member

  23. Annie Johnson Jones, ADDI, Member

  24. Senghor Baye UNIA-ACL RC2020, Other Executive Officer

  25. Cecile Johnson, African Development Plan, President

  26. Gayon Clarke, United Kingdoms of Ubuntu, Member

  27. Howard McDonald, USA African Diaspora, Member

  28. Jabali Seba, House of Seba, President

  29. Dr. Danly Clive Ebanks, Ebanks Kingdom Of Judah In America,Other Executive Officer

  30. Linda Fannin-Watts, ADDI Member

  31. Kabinda Habre Selassie, Ethiopian World Federation Inc. Shashamane..ET, Vice President

  32. Frank Guto, Kabarak University, Member

  33. Fuscao Panka, Israel Rastafari Foundation, Other Executive Officer

  34. Shernell Blackman, 12 Tribe Isreal (TTI), Member

  35. Tammie Thelwell, Upjamaica, Board Member

  36. Charlene Hannah, Balanta Burassa History and Genealogy Society (BBHAGSIA) Member

  37. Joe Kove-Yaw, KIDS Foundation Inc., Ghana, President

  38. LaShawne Blount, Black Roots, Member

  39. Ras Caleb Appiah-Levi, PanAfrica-Ghana (PAG), President

  40. Robert Lambert, ADDI, Member

  41. Maureen Hamilton, ADDI Other Executive Officer

  42. AYODEJI ANIMASHAUN, EWF LOCAL 49, Other Executive Officer

  43. Minister Lazarus Nazari, Ethiopian World Federation, Incorporated, Vice President

  44. Alicia McQueen UKA Bantu Exodus, Member

  45. Dr Lawrence Yawa SOAD, Other

  46. Nana Kwabena Jacques, ADDI ,Member

  47. Claudia Mason, ADDI Member

  48. Perry Mason ADDI, Member

  49. Alexander Frempong, Diaspora Ghana Uited Nation Association, President

  50. Ayaroko Turu, DANS, Other

  51. Berick Mhlanga, Dube Business Enterprise, Other

  52. GAIL MCGEE, Sankofa Vision Collective, Member

  53. Miguel Jesus Michael, One Map Africa Revolution, President

  54. Annette Spence, Ethiopian World Federation Inc., Member

  55. Simphiwe Lawrence Bele, State of Africa Diaspora, Other Executive Officer

  56. Sandra Stapleton, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Member

  57. Sandiata Daniels, African Diaspora 6th Region Ubuntu Organisation, Member

  58. Wolete Gabrael Anderson, THE ETHIOPOAN WORLD FEDERATION INCORPORATED, Other Executive Officer

  59. Wolete Gabra'el Anderson, THE ETHIOPOAN WORLD FEDERATION INCORPORATED, Board Member

  60. Janet Hutchinson, Ghana Caribbean Association, Board Member

  61. Carol Campbell, The EWF Inc., Member, SOAD

  62. H. E Roving Amb. Jockim Bwambale, State of African Diaspora (SOAD), Other Executive Officer

  63. Carl Whyte, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Member

  64. Amma Indee Jordan, The Association For the Revitalization of the Interests and Concerns of Africans (A.F.R.I.C.A.), Historically Unique Group Gh (HUG) and Ghana Caribbean Association (GCA), Member

  65. Joanne Drummond, African American Association Ghana, Member

  66. Ayiko Pure-i-Fyah, The Ethiopian World Federation, Inc London: Local 3, Other Executive Officer

  67. Sonia Conliffe Yakung, Ghana Carribean Association (GCA), Member

  68. Edison Marquez Cortez, Estado de la Diaspora Africana (SOAD) Embajador - MFPA, Other

  69. Tse Anye Kevin, State55 Africa, Vice President

  70. Jackie Nelson, JRDC, Member

  71. Gift Mwenda, State of African diaspora ( SOAD), Other

  72. B. Wilson - Sampson, ADDI, Member

  73. Elisabeth Peter, The EWF Inc. Yemikelakel 7 Martinique, President

  74. Yvonne Pugh, UNIA, Member

  75. Jahlisha Israel RNRC, President

  76. Charles White, Sankofa Vision Collective, Board Member

  77. Ayanda Msweli, Ayanda Msweli Foundation, President

  78. C. DeShola Dawkins, Next Level Vision, Inc. President

  79. Gloria Y.B. Nunyuie, Member of both the AAAG and GCA

  80. Mercy Thandi, AU, Member

  81. Sarfo Kusi, ADDI, Member

  82. Talitha Davis, African Diaspora Development Institute (ADDI), Member

  83. Kamm Howard, Reparations United, Other Executive Officer

  84. Mbhengi II Nqobani KaBonginkosi Mhlongo, UbuKhosi BaseLangeni EMhlathuze Foundation, President

  85. JUSTIN NIYIGENA, State of Aftican Diaspora, Other

  86. Samuel Busan Mabunda, State Of African Diaspora, Other

  87. Miguel Jesus Michael, One Map Africa Revolution, President

  88. Prof. Richard Eshun, Global Peace Study for Sustainable Development in Africa, St. Augustine’s University of Tanzania, Member

  89. Kezzman Asamoah Boateng, Ministry of infrastructure, ADDI BF 2024, Member

  90. Levison Malanga, ADDI, Member

  91. Tessa Mason, SOAD,. ADDI, Member

  92. Isa Ibrahiim, Afro Caribbean Association, UK, Other Executive Officer

  93. Shernell Blackman, 12 Tribe Isreal .TTI, Member

  94. Karen Bruce, TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, Other Executive Officer

  95. Heru Menelik, Universal Negro Imprivement Association, Other Executive Officer

  96. HENRY ESENU, Green Harvest Africa, Other

  97. Kamm Howard, Reparations United, Other Executive Officer

  98. Annejanet Harp, International Women's Council, Vice President

  99. Marc Ras D. Levi Venus, Ethiopian World Federation Incorporated Local 3 London; Nayabinghi Council UK, Other Executive Officer