Pan-African Mobilisation and Solidarity
Africans Rising’s Pan-African Mobilisation and Solidarity Unit conducts collective action across the continent, bringing together movements, communities and individuals around shared struggles for unity, justice, peace and dignity.
Program overview
This unit is organised into three key areas:
- Mobilisation - Africa Liberation Week & Global Week of Actions
- Solidarity - Pan-African Solidarity Action Network & Solidarity Missions
- Convening - All-Africa Movement Assembly
CONVENING
AAMA – All African Movement Assembly
The All-African Movements Assembly (AAMA) is the largest gathering of African movements. As a people’s platform, it provides the opportunity to assess our collective mandate as Africans in our quest for unity, justice, peace, and dignity; an opportunity to reconnect, ask deep questions about the African situation, take stock and re-strategise on the way forward.
The first edition was held in 2022 in Arusha, Tanzania and the second in Accra, Ghana in 2024.
It brought together more than 1000 movement representatives, activists, Pan-Africanists, human rights defenders, feminists, mainly young people, but with a good inter-generational mix.
AAMA is more than an event; it is a convergence of people’s struggles, a space of solidarity, and a commitment to building a united, just, and dignified Africa.
Mobilisation
Each year, we coordinate large-scale mobilisations that bring together communities, movements, and organisations across Africa to take bold actions.
Africa Liberation Week Mobilisation
African Liberation Week is an annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on May 25, 1963. The day is recognised to promote unity and solidarity among African people and states. It is also the anniversary of the launch of Africans Rising on May 25, 2017.
The first-ever mobilisation took place on May 25, 2017, when 2,000 volunteers, partners, supporters, and friends organised a total of 300 actions & events in 42 countries on the African continent and in the Diaspora, to mark the launch of the Africans Rising Movement.
In the past years, the Africans Rising movement and its members have used the week of African Liberation Day(May 25) to recognise issues of illicit financial flows, slavery, and health. From 2023, the mobilisation has been focused on amplifying the Borderless Africa campaign while pushing other agendas on Peace, Climate, Economic, Energy and International crises that affect the continent.
Global Week of Actions
Every year, Africans Rising partners with international climate organisations to rally Africans from across all countries to demand climate justice.
Guided by rotating themes, communities organise actions that highlight local struggles, propose solutions, and amplify the collective power of Africans on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
The mobilisations are led by members whose work on climate affects their local communities and their nations. Activities include marches, market visits, webinars, tree planting, sensitisation in schools, and publication of articles, etc.
SOLIDARITY
Our Solidarity initiatives embody our commitment to standing with communities across the continent in times of crisis.
The Pan-African Solidarity Action Network (PASAN)
The Pan-African Solidarity Action Network (PASAN) is an initiative designed to provide rapid, coordinated, and impactful responses to the humanitarian and political challenges facing Africa. It seeks to unite individuals, movements and institutions in collective action to address emergencies, defend civic space and build a lasting pan-African culture of solidarity.
PASAN recognises that Africa’s challenges require African-led, people-driven solutions that are rooted in mutual aid, justice and the defence of human rights. Through strategic partnerships, grassroots mobilisation and advocacy, the network seeks to make solidarity an everyday, organised practice rather than a reactionary effort.
Objectives:
- To build the infrastructure necessary for quick and efficient mobilisation of solidarity across the African continent in response to humanitarian crises and civic space challenges.
- Establish the infrastructure and protocol for quick and effective responses to humanitarian and civic crises.
- Build a continental solidarity infrastructure that unites Africans in moments of crisis.
- Develop media strategies that reframe African solidarity as a force for justice and self-determination.
- Strengthen protection mechanisms for human rights defenders, activists and movements/communities under threat.
Solidarity Missions
Through solidarity visits, movement members travel to affected countries to listen, share, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the people.
These visits are a demonstration of unity and collective responsibility, ensuring that struggles in one part of Africa are felt, recognised, and supported by all. By showing up in moments of need, we affirm our shared commitment to justice, dignity, and true Pan Africanism.
