The State Capture Of Pan Africanism Is A Fait Accompli: Shenanigans At The 9th PAC of Lomé – The Manner In Which It Was Organized Is Its Fundamental Flaw –

December 13, Lomé – The African Union took control of the people’s Reparation Movement at the Accra Reparations Conference, November 14-17, 2023. Now, the people’s Pan African Movement has been seized. The state capture of Pan Africanism was accomplished at the 9th Pan African Congress in Lomé, Togo from December 8th to the 12th.

The Final Resolutions of the Commissions (there were eight) and the 9th PAC Final Declaration were prepared beforehand by the Togo Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This means that resolutions of the 9th PAC, at least many of them if not the majority of them, are not the work of the 33 Commissioners or the delegates, but the agenda of the Togolese government, which may or may not be in alignment with the wisdom and will of the delegates. This is consistent with the manner in which the “itinerant” 9th PAC was organized – the outward appearance of “inclusion” provided by the preparatory conferences notwithstanding.

. HOW TO PROPERLY ORGANIZE A PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS IN THE 21st CENTURY

Here’s how the 9th PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS and any future Congress should be organized.

1. A Pan Africanist broadly respected should be named Chief Coordinator.

2. A dedicated, African owned platform like Abibitumi, should be used for broad discussion.

3. Themes and Draft Resolutions are to be published six months before the Congress

4. Online input forms for each draft resolution will be published and all inputs collected. Specific resolution language will be solicited and collected. (Use the following 9th PAC input forms as an example)

5. A Pre-Congress Report with all the draft resolutions and key inputs is published to all registered delegates two months before the congress (using the 7th PAC Resolutions as a template – see below). Discussion and debate of the draft resolutions will take place on the dedicated platform including video forums for two months prior to the Congress. The point is that we come to the Congress having already had as broad a discussion as possible on each resolution and we convene the Congress only to finalized the document.

6. After the opening of the Congress, the Congress Chief Coordinator will lead the entire Congress through each resolution. There will be 30 minutes of discussion with each person given a strict 3 minutes to speak directly to the resolution language. At the end of 30 minutes, a vote of the entire Congregation will be taken on the final resolution. A two-thirds acceptance will make the resolution final. In this manner we proceed until all draft resolutions have been approved or rejected.

7. Anyone can submit input, but only accredited delegates (selected by the Chief Coordinator or anyone who presents a petition to particpate as a delegate signed by at least 200 people) can vote. The latter requirment is to facilitate the development of networks, constitutencies and broad awarness of the Congress.

In this way, the Congress Final Resolution will be produced by the collected decision of the Congress Delegates and will thus carry the sufficient authority to serve as the Pan African Plan of Action for the next decade. This is the people-driven process that must govern the Congress. https://www.balanta.org/news/9th-pac-report. CLICK THE. LINK TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND ACCESS ALL THE INFORMATION