Our mandate under the Kilimanjaro Declaration 2.0
Broad continental and global campaigns on the mandate areas under the Kilimanjaro Declaration. These campaigns and advocacy actions are implemented with member movements, activists and organisations at national, sub-regional and continental levels. We also work with many partners across the world to implement campaigns aimed at changing the current oppressive, neo-colonial systems holding the people down
Borderless Africa – #FreeThem campaign – #ReRightHistory – #Rise4OurLives
As a Movement of Movements, Africans Rising works with, builds, strengthens and supports our members (African social movements, activists and organisations) to and achieve more impact. We also build movements in places or areas where there is need for grassroots mobilisastion to support a particular cause. Grassroots power when harnessed through movements can bring rapid and transformative change. Initiatives under our movement support program are as follows
Africans Rising leverages its numbers as the largest Pan-African movement to mobilise and build solidarity among African people both in the continent and the diaspora. Our biggest annual mobilisation is the African Liberation Week that is the week of 25th May commemorating the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (25th May 1963). Africans Rising was launched on 25th May 2017 with more than 500 solidarity actions in 40 countries showing solidarity with African issues. Find more about our initiatives in building Pan-African solidarity below;
African Liberation Week – Pan-African Solidarity Action Network – All-African Movements Assembly (AAMA) – Solidarity Missions
Africans Rising works in all 55 African countries and more than 100 diaspora countries and territories to push governments , businesses and established national and global Ngos to focus on the issues Africans deem critical.
Our members share a common vision which is outlined in our founding document the Kilimanjaro Declaration. The declaration is a formal recognition of the richness of the African continent, its people and its diaspora, and a commitment to overcome the oppressive systems that plague African and African-descendent people.Â
We, the citizens and descendants of Africa, as part of the Africans Rising Movement, are outraged by the centuries of oppression; we condemn the plunder of our natural and mineral resources and the suppression of our fundamental human rights. We are determined to foster an Africa-wide solidarity and unity of purpose of the Peoples of Africa to build the Future we want – a right to peace, social inclusion and shared prosperity.
The history of slavery and slave trade is one of the activities that greatly dehumanised the black race and Africans as a whole. Our forefathers were treated as less humans,
Building on eight years of massive and consistent mobilisations, the 2025 African Liberation Week will be a milestone in fostering Pan-African solidarity.Â
Founding Chair of Africans Rising
Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the 2025 African Social Movements (ASM) Baraza, held in Accra, Ghana,
Last year, farmers in my village in northern Ghana experienced perhaps the worst drought in recent times. The rains started as usual in May,
In a though provoking virtual gathering on April 15, 2025, Africans from across the continent and diaspora came together for an insightful Information Session hosted by Africans Rising.
In today’s digital world, the internet plays a vital role in organizing, mobilizing, and expressing dissent. However, authoritarian regimes often resort to internet shutdowns and censorship to
