African Unification Front
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October 1996 [Updated 2001]
MISSION STATEMENT
THE STRUGGLE FOR AFRICAN SOVEREIGNTY AND FREEDOM
The AUF was formed as a means to bring together African people in a process of political, social, and economic integration.
The entire and only mission of the AUF is, the unmediated consolidation of Africa into a unified political, social, and economic entity. African Unity is an ancient legacy that Africans have always been entitled to, regardless of any other cultural, social, economic, or political considerations.
"Unmediated" means that the AUF does NOT recognize any additional ideological, economic, or cultural condition, as prerequisite of unification. Therefore the AUF rejects totally the notion that certain economic preconditions, or the development of certain additional social attitudes, or concerns external to Africa, are necessary before African unification can become a reality.
Cognizant of the weakness and failure of virtually all regional and continental integration organizations to involve the broad masses of Africans in the processes of integration, it became necessary to forge a new mass movement, the AUF, consisting of Africans from all regions and from all classes, with the central purpose of unifying Africa into a comprehensive, well articulated political, social and economic unit.
The AUF builds on past achievements of African national, continental, and international Pan African movements to create, support and implement policies that are consistent with the desires expressed, or implicit in these past efforts. For example, the AUF recognises the legitimacy of the OAU treaty establishing the African Economic Community. In article 14 paragraph 1, the treaty states "in order to ensure that the peoples of Africa are fully involved the economic development and integration of the continent, there shall be established a Pan-African parliament."
Furthermore, in article 90, paragraph 1, the treaty provides that "the community in the context of mobilizing the human and material resources of Africa, shall establish relations of cooperation with African Non-Governmental organizations, with a view to encouraging the involvement of African peoples in the process of economic integration and mobilizing the technical, material, and financial support."
On the basis of such well reasoned formulations and treaties, the AUF aims to, among other things:
a]Consolidate the provisions of the African Union and all pertinent Pan African treaties, including the establishment and empowerment of a legislative assembly [African Parliament] consisting of popularly elected representatives of communities from all of Africa, with the mandate to govern and manage Africa's resources in ways that are beneficial to all Africans.
b] Strengthen African legality, including support of the African Court of Justice, based initially on the Banjul Protocol (the African Charter of Peoples and Human Rights), with the mandate to build a comprehensive body of functional African law and justice.
c] Establish the African Defence Force, with the mandate to defend African sovereignty against any and all external military threats. Groundwork for the formation of the African Defence Force includes the OAU Defense Commisson of October 1963 (in Accra), the resoultions of the OAU General Assembly of 1988, and the OAU's African Chiefs of Defense Staff (ACDS), Joint Military Commission and Military Coordinating Committee. The ADF, organized under the AU Political Committee, will have a general staff consisting of the ACDS and/or the JMC/MCC and like organs. It will secure coastal waters, strategic African Union facilities, and public or social wealth, for the purpose of a common defense and to guarantee the safety of African communities and lives.
d] Garner support for the African Central Bank, with the mandate to establish an economic stabilization fund, oversee the creation and management of a single African currency, manage the Union's currency reserves, direct the balanced growth a single African Free Trade Area, and establish a Common External Tarrif.
e] Establish the African Council of Research with the mandate to establish and to oversee the technological advancement of Africa, secure funding for ecologically sound management of Africa's watersheds and vast animal life, and oversee the integration of the education system in Africa.
f] Create the African Council for Public Health with the mandate to oversee and co-ordinate the integration and evaluation of health management in the African Union, including funding and augmentation of health policy, physicians associations, and health care facilities. The Council will regulate the administration and evaluation of pharmaceutical regimes, monitor drug safety and efficacy, as well as review the efficacy of potentially harmful birth control, infection control and disease management programs across the African Union and the African Diaspora.
g] End displacement of communities, and bring an end to the continuing political and social repression of Africans everywhere. The AUF aims to
facilitate an end to interstate and intrastate warfare in Africa, and lead the struggle for peaceful and productive community relations.
h] Do all other things that will guarantee the future integrity and wholeness of Africa as a single nation with all the appropriate organs, rights, and privileges befitting a united and sovereign people.
The Africa we want is free trade area, and a common market having a common external tariff, which will allow for community friendly labour and employement policies, as well as common economic policies across the continent.
Unification means that Africans will have the capacity as a people to modify terms and conditions not favourable to us, especially those conditions that revolt African sensibilities and assault our natural welbeing, including such things as chronic poverty, community failure, exploitation and dependence, discrimination overseas, chronic war and civil unrest, enviromental degradation etc.
Unification also means that the capacity will increase, of Africans to have a profound import on the course of human history. Unity of action guarantees independence and political strength, and will allow Africans to live with honour and respect.
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