African Unification Front
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HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE AFRICAN FRONT
FOR STRENGTH, DISCIPLINE, MUTUAL SUPPORT & UNITY
When you join the AUF, you become part of an international network, part of the historic Pan African movement. You are adding your voice and endorsement, along with millions of other people, to a great cause for creating a better Africa, a better world. And you join a cause that has inspired and enlisted the efforts of great freedom fighters, civil rights activists, cultural reformers, thinkers, and people from all walks of life, across the ages, in all parts of the world, who gave so much to keep the hope alive, of a free and sovereign African people.
As a member of the AUF you are making a difference in the struggle to secure African freedom and national self-determination, to give Africans more control over their own lives, their own government. Your membership is proof of your support for AUF work and policies, and it enables AUF leaders to speak on your behalf regarding the cause of African unity.
You don't pay any money to become a member of the AUF. The AUF is self-funded (by generating income from events or projects), or funded by donations. There is no membership fee. All the AUF demands of you is committment, loyalty, your goodwill, your heart and your mind (all priceless).
The AUF has won deep support and affection among millions of Africans and non-Africans all over the world, for its unique and positive approach to Pan Africanism. The Front is true to the spirit of Pan Africanism, and is sensitive to the sense of urgency in the struggle, without betraying the dignity and integrity of the nation we cherish so much. Because of the support, collaboration and encouragement that the AUF continues to receive from the people, the ideas, guidance and direction that the AUF has mobilized, are providing incentive and inertia for African unification.
In order to be true to the mass movement that is Pan Africanism, the AUF (the unification front of the Pan-African mass movement), and those ideas it works to normalise, have to be the historic aspirations of the African nation, they have to be socially pertinent, and the people must voluntarily integrate them into their lives, so that participation in the struggle is unforced and spontaneous. In otherwords, the Front must be light to carry and easy to live with, even while enduring hardships. The African Front has to be robust, effective, decisive.
To join the AUF all you have to do is locate other AUF members, so that they can acknowledge and recognize you as a member. If there are no other AUF members in your area, form an AUF unit and get in touch via email, phone or letter, with the AUF leaders or anyone listed on this site, and someone will get in touch with you. You will be formally inducted or assigned to a network of members in your area, or members that you can communicate with on email, phone, newsletter or other types of correspondence. All it takes to join is "acknowledgement and recognition" from other members, as well as positive participation in AUF activities, and also respecting the rules of the AUF. If you want to lead or organize, your appointment must be confirmed or modified by the General Secretary or other appropriate AUF authority, depending on the demonstrable understanding of AUF work.
All AUF members around the world and in Africa are part of networks. These networks, (also AUF Membership Branches, AUF Constituency Organizations, AUF or AF cells, AUF units, AUF associations, clubs, alliances, AF affiliates, AUF families, AUF groups, AF discussion groups, AUF houses, or AUF sections), serve many purposes, the most important of which is orderly communication channels, and mutual support among members. In the current phase of AUF work, the most important duty of AUF members is to create public awareness of developments in the unification process. As well AUF members are required to engage each other and others in the struggle against neocolonialism.
All cells have people assigned to different activities. There is at least one person to coordinate liaison work with other AUF organs and is in charge of maintaining communications with other units. Policy decisions are made by AUF members and routed through the General Council, Secretariat [also the Praetariat or the Center] for endorsement or resolution. All AUF policies are constantly reviewed by members, in order to modify and make them more appropriate.
Once a policy is approved it is incorporated into general AUF functions, ideology and philosophy of the AUF, and acted upon by the appropriate AUF organs. The General Council consists of AUF representatives who are responsible for coordinating the activities of the Front. AUF Representatives are members with official AUF responsibilities or authority, who are serving on committees, working groups and assessment teams, or who are executives with administrative functions and assignments on various AUF projects and programs.
AUF members and leaders are required and encouraged to organize and participate as often as possible in local, regional and global reviews on the progress of the cause and the organization. At these times policy and leadership reviews happen, policies are decided, and AUF programs are implemented. Voting is open to all members, with the exception to voting on sensitive policy or leadership decisions, which require that you must have been an active member of the AUF for at least one year.
In order to serve in a sensitive executive position in the Front, or to become member of a sensitive coordinating committee you must have been an active and disciplined member of the AUF for a year or longer, and have established trust relations with members of the AUF and demonstrated competence and thorough understanding of the cause, the concerns and the issues relating to African unification. There is a need to understand the whole dialectics of our struggle and its development, taking into consideration all aspects and interrelations of all elements and components. These precautions are necessary in order to secure the integrity, consistency, stability and coherence of the AUF.
As a member of the AUF you will get information about AUF activities and you will be able to contribute to, and to make use of AUF structures, networks, and resources. As a member you will be expected to have discipline, to respect the African Front's rules, and to make an effort to keep yourself informed about issues that concern Africans.
AUF membership is open to all people who are genuinely respectful of Africa, and who seek to free Africa from neocolonialism and disunity. The AUF does not allow for discrimination against individuals according to physical characteristics, class, or origins (as criteria for membership or leadership).
As members mature in the organization they will notice that there are ways in which AUF language and concepts are sensitive to African concerns. The AUF does not tolerate retrogressive attitudes about Africans, nor defeatism, nor divisiveness among its members. Competition, anti-community attitudes and biases are unacceptable. Gratuitous criticism and neocolonial obstructionism will not be tolerated. It is the duty of members to build each other up, and to support each other in order that we may expedite the struggle for African sovereignty.
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