We in PAFM believe that the people are the legitimate owners of the Sovereignty of the States we want to unite. We believe it to be self-evident that only the African masses have the true legitimate power to authorize the African states to voluntarily “mutualize” any portion of their sovereignty to an entity which they deem will be able to properly manage it in their best interest.
During the last fifty years or more, these States have proven their inability to manage significant portions of their sovereignty and have surrendered them to their former colonizer’s governments who are not accountable to African people. A Federalist Compact between the African States will allow them to take back those portions of their sovereignty and voluntarily “mutulaize” parts of it that they deem fit to a Federal Government “of the African people, by the African people and for the African people”. It is self-evident that this entity will only be accountable to African people and no foreign power.
The Pan African Federalist Movement (PAFM) is being built around the Call for the First Pan African Federalist Congress. where at least two third of the countries targeted to become members of the UAS will have delegates representing the will of the Pan African Federalists, organizations and individuals, of their country. A Congress that will have the capacity to launch a credible campaign for convening referendums or other forms of citizen actions to secure the membership of their country to the United African States (UAS). The African peoples who are the owners of the sovereignty of their States, will be deciding on the entry of their State into a federal union with the other African States and form the United African States.
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The following questionaire is for senior analysts and seasoned activists on the ground in the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The responses will be analyzed and compiled for the strategy document:
