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A Global Pan-African Reparations Conference will be held in Accra, Ghana, July 22 to August 3, 2006 to review, assess and improve the worldwide efforts of the Global Pan-African Reparations Movement and to develop and coordinate the implementation of strategies, which will help to reconcile and unite African Peoples so that their positive strengths are released in a focused manner to elevate Africa and Africans worldwide. 

N'COBRA Intenational Affairs Commission (NIAC), Sankofa United Continent African Roots Development International Family Association (SUCARDIF) of Ghana, and a number of other international reparations organizations and movements, request your participation in this most historic international reparations conference. Your commitment to the African reparations movement and your demonstrated leadership in the African community are critical to the success of this ambitious undertaking. 		                         

   

THEME: "Create the Future: Transformation, Reparations, Repatriation, and Reconciliation!" 

  It has been four years since our victory in Durban, South Africa at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism. It was a time when African nations and African people throughout the Diaspora came together to talk about slavery, colonialism, and reparations.  Together we achieved the impossible.  We demanded that the most powerful and most criminal slavers and colonial nations on the planet acknowledge that African people are now and always have been human beings; and that the kidnap, rape, theft, captivity, and enslavement of African people are and always have been crimes against humanity.

Now it is time to come together again and pick up the unfinished business of Durban. We must focus on Reparations, and the Durban Program of Action.  Also, we must ensure that all of the Black African Diaspora and African Governments come together to reexamine that document to see where we are and where we are going with its implementation. And we must combat this new assault waged under the banner of philanthropy.  There is no better time than now.   


   

Purpose:



  To gather, educate, and equip the Global Pan-African Reparations Movement - with resources (i.e. templates, models, and examples) of successful organizing techniques and educational tools to engage the world.  Additionally, The overarching objective of the conference is to develop a programmatic framework that allows the Global Pan-African Reparations Movement to develop and coordinate activities and Africans and African descendants  reconciliation

   

Objectives:



 
  1. To deepen African, and other Indigenous, peoples’ understanding of the “global reparations movement” and our mutual understanding and support for Afro-descendants throughout the Diaspora seeking reparations; 
  2. To shape the conversation about the significance of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the British Empire;    
  3. To promote a dialogue within the global reparations movement about “international capital” and its origins, the demise of capitalism as we know it, and the “new world-wide movement” for a new economic order;
  4. To share strategies and tactics related to our respective local, regional, and national reparations issues, demands, and approaches for mutual support;
  5. To identify the present opportunities, prospects, and means for forging direct linkages with African grassroots organizations and diplomatic bodies; and 
  6. To explore “concrete ways” to meaningfully participate in African initiatives that invite African descendants to return to Africa, specifically Ghana’s Joseph Project and SUCARDIF’s Tower of Return Monument Project.