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Borderless Africa
Borderless Africa Convening
Lusaka, Zambia 23 – 25 May, 2024
The Borderless Africa – Free Movement Campaign is a product of the All-African Movements Assembly (AAMA) held from 29-31 August 2022 in Arusha Tanzania, bringing together over 600 members of Africans Rising – Pan-African social movements, activists, human rights defenders, advocates, and key stakeholders from 55 countries across the continent and the diaspora.
The goal of the campaign is to achieve an Africa where Africans can move around their own continent without the current restrictions in place. For better trade, integration and development.
Campaign Objectives
- Abolish visa requirements for intra African travel
- Ratify and implement the AU protocol on free movement
- Mass roll out of the common African passport
- Give visibility to the linkage between Africans on the continent and global Africa
- Promote trade among Africans
Key campaign activities
People’s petition for free movement
An online petition will be launched to collect signatures from African people across the world
Collaborations and partnerships
Beyond the movements and activists in the core of the campaign, we will build partnerships and collaborations with other organisations, media, social media influencers, think tanks and other civil society actors to push the campaign from all angles.
Continuous Grassroot Movement Support
Working with grassroots movements to create local ownership
Mass mobilization using African Liberation Week
African Liberation Week (Week of 25th May) is Africans Rising’s biggest annual mobilisation of members across the continent and the diaspora. We aim to use this large mobilisation platform to organise marches/demonstrations in African countries and diaspora to push for free movement.
Advocacy
A high level panel of influential people and others to champion the advocacy for the ratification of the AU protocol on free movement.
Youth Caravan to AU headquarters
A youth caravan to physically present the People’s Petition for Free Movement to heads of states and governments at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa in 2023.
