The Africa Solidarity Council, Inc.

Founding Principles

The Spirit of Pan-Africanism needs to be reinvigorated and allowed to be reinvigorated and allowed to become our guiding light as we seek to build a new Africa.  This spirit will compel both immigrant and non-immigrant Africans to come together in unity and build a solidarity with one another to advance our interests.

 From the solidarity we have developed while on a foreign soil, we will be able to forge a friendship one with another.  This friendship, when allowed to permeate our consciousness, will encourage us to recognize our diversity and interests as a people.  From among us may come the leaders of Africa of tomorrow and the friendship we have developed today will help us understand and accept our diversity as a pragmatic instrument for national and continental unity.  Our leaders will then work to create a lasting and viable Africa where peace, unity, and progress will reign.

 Today, Africans should be about the business of rebuilding the nations of our continent,  and to become a member of the world community of nations with unique contributions to it, capable of providing for its people and deserving of earned respect from the community of nations.  This means having a set of standards that promote identifiable interests and objectives and help us become “a community too stable to be unproductive, too dynamic to be static, too dignified to be unimpressive, and too African to be Western.”

 Whereas, solidarity means unity (as of a group or class) that produces or is based on community of interests, objectives, and standards;

 And whereas, a council is a federation of or a central body uniting a group of organizations for a common purpose;

 And whereas, our purpose is to rid Africa and its people the cankerworm of complacency; to rid Africa and its people the politics of sectionalism, ethnicity, and self-hate; and to work and walk together, knowing that what afflicts one afflicts us all and a thing of joy to one is a joy shared by us all!

 Therefore, The Africa Solidarity Council becomes me, it becomes you, and it becomes us all.  It is a Movement, a Mission, a Cause, a CRUSADE. Above all, it is a Name that provides us with an identity befitting of our ideals and objectives.

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