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N'COBRA
primary program focuses on obtaining reparations for African descendants
in the United States. However, it understands that it is a part
of the international movement for reparations. N'COBRA International
Affairs Commission (NIAC) is that arm of N'COBRA that works
closely with Africans, African descendants and supporters of reparations
for Africans and African descendants throughout the world. Under its
leadership N'COBRA members were very active during the preparatory
process for the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) and the Non-Governmental
Organization Forum and government conference held in Durban, South Africa
August 28-September 8, 2001. Members were also active in the African
and African Descendants Caucus that was formed during the WCAR preparatory
process and continues to work on reparations internationally. NIAC understands
the connection among the status of Africans and African descendants
in the United States, throughout the Diaspora, Africans on the Continent
and Africa. N'COBRA and NIAC acknowledge that the success of the movement
for reparations for Africans anywhere advances the movement for reparations
for Africans and African descendants everywhere.
The commission's
work also includes travel to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
and to Peru with AFRE and Silis Muhammad; and to all of the preparatory
conferences leading up to the World Conference Against Racism; to
Barbados, Suriname in South America, and the Netherlands with the Global
Afrikan Congress family, and to Dimona, North East Africa to be with
our Hebrew Israelite repatriated family. |
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It has been four years since
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. It is time to come together
again and pick up the unfinished business of Durban.
Today our must focus
must be on Reparations, and the Durban Program of Action.
We must ensure that all of the 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 take care of some unfinished business in addressing repatriation,
reconciliation issues with our Brothers and Sisters in Africa and that
which transforms us into a cooperating and internationally respected people.
NIAC is working with
international groups in organizing forums to address these issues. An immediate focus of NIAC
and its co-convenors at this time is the Ghana
Pan-African Reparations Conference, scheduled for July 22- August
3, 2006 in Ghana. We are very excited and eagerly
anticipating that this conference with participation from Africans
throughout the world will not only continue and enhance the process
of our transformation, but will help shape the conversation and activities,
as the British Empire
plans to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans
Atlantic Slave Trade (Holocaust of Enslavement).
Please click on the "Ghana Conference"
link to the left for further information.
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