About Us
The overall vision of the movement is encapsulated in the vision document, the Kilimanjaro Declaration, which was adopted at the founding of the movement and revised by members at the All-African Movements Assembly
Our Vision
The Movement envisions that Africa-wide activism, solidarity and unity of purpose of the Peoples of Africa will build the future they want – a right to justice, peace, dignity and shared prosperity.
Our Mission
To work with, build, strengthen, support and leverage Pan-African peoples' movement either local, national or regional, grassroots struggles and movements by engendering decentralised agencies with a ‘centrally’ enabled network for unity, justice, peace, dignity and shared prosperity in Africa. This network is accountable to the constituencies and will have the highest standards of ethical behaviour.
History of the Movement
History of Africans Rising
Africans Rising is the result of a bottom-up series of on and offline consultations and dialogues between and amongst social movements, NGOs, peoples and popular social justice movements, intellectuals, artists, athletes, cultural activists, religious organisations, trade unions and others, across the AU determined regions of the continent, including the diaspora. The Africans Rising movement was formally launched in May 2017 with an understanding that African civil society needed to develop a new, collaborative and effective way to work for change.
The Validation Conference
The Validation Conference took place between the 23rd and 24th of August 2016 at the MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation (TCDC), in Arusha, Tanzania. 272 delegates attended the conference from 40 Africans countries in addition to an honorable representation by the African Diaspora. 51% of the delegates were women and 60% were under the age of 35. The conference deliberately positioned all its participants on an equal level and 397 US Dollars spontaneously contributed to the movement.
Since our Inception in May 2017
Since our inception in May 2017, we have continuously developed a deep awareness of the need to restructure our movement against the norms of the conventional NGO internal governance. Our consultations have revealed a major cynicism towards traditional political structures, NGO influences and even towards local civil society entities. Africa’s youth have a deep sense of detachment to any form of labels and it is our job to understand what Pan-Africanism means to millennials. The systematically dysfunctional political leadership has rendered our youth cynical of any collaborative future. Hence, the confirmation of the consensus that Africans are rising but on their own terms and with unconventional rules.
