African Unification Front
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PAST AUF LEADERS
Kirimi Kaberia: AUF Past President
Youssouf Mohamed: AUF Past President
Ato Dejene “Ikemefuna” Fesseha: AUF Deputy General Secretary 2001-2004
Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo: AUF Vice President
Kirimi Kaberia,
AUF President, 2001-2003
Kaberia (center) with friends at Heathrow Airport
 Kirimi Kaberia became President of the AUF in 2001. In October 2003 he was appointed Kenya's Deputy Ambassador to the United States of America.
He is the founder of the US-based Democracy and Governance Program, which has trained over 120 African leaders, including cabinet ministers, as well as government and civil society leaders from all over Africa since 1994.
He was involved with the analysis and drafting of the AGOA project that has become such an important factor in the continuing debate about opening the US market for African products. Kirimi's activities also included the promotion of ODA reforms and fair terms of international trade. In 1998, following the twin terrorist bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Kirimi Kaberia's work with the Relief for Kenya added US$10 million to the fund, raising it to US$60 million.
In the 1990s Kaberia worked for the BBC in Kenya, and did assignments that included covering the war in Somalia. He has worked with the Washington Post and the Washington Times, and with the Les Aspin Center in Washington DC. Kaberia has longstanding working relations with the US Congressional Black Caucus, and the Foreign Relations Committee. Kirimi is also the CEO of ATCnet, the African Trade Consultants Network.
Youssouf Taofic Mouhamed,
AUF President 2005
 Mouhamed Taofic Youssouf is a committed Pan Africanist organizer, and is fluent in Yoruba and several other African languages, as well as Arabic, French and English. He is originally from Benin and has lived and worked in other states in Western Africa, as well as in Europe and North America.
Ato Dejene “Ikemefuna” Fesseha,
AUF Deputy General Secretary 2001-2004
 Dejene Fesseha is an Industrial Designer and Fine Artist and has actively engaged in the African Unification activities since the age of 21. His involvement intensified in 1996 with the UN Habitat II Conference in Turkey in the design of disaster relief shelter, the National Summit on Africa assisting the deliberative processes, the Centre for Strategic Studies African Leadership Seminar, volunteer work with African Diaspora NGOs, moderation of the Unification Committee of Africans (a consultation group that monitored the birth of the African Union), the Inaugural Celebration of the African Union in Durban, and the AU-Western Hemisphere Diaspora Forum in Washington D.C.
Ato Fesseha is currently a member of the African Bamboo Association (ABA), INBARs Consultative Group on Bamboo and Rattan(CGBAR-Africa), and the founder and senior designer of Meka Design and Development, all organizations built on the utilization of bamboo for the sustainable development of Africa. As an artist and musician, Fesseha creates social-documentary collages of the African experience and enjoys making and playing traditional Mbira instruments.
Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo,
AUF Vice President [Oct 2005 to May 2006]
 Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo is an experienced Pan African organizer and Human Rights activist. He was founding chair of the Kingwilliamstown branch of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) in January 1973, and was one of the organizers of cultural conscientizers of high school students from 1973, and this led to Soweto-led National Students and Youth Uprising of 1976. Mongezi is currently involved in multi-party initiatives throughout Africa, and is the founder of Azania Heritage International.
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