Read: What Role for the Afro Descendants in the African Union's Commission for International Law (AUCIL) and the Proposed Legal Reference Group? The Case of the Republic of New Afrika Part I
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On October 4, 2024, As Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, I sent the following email to to Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar, Research and Co-ordinator of AU ECHO <GamalK@africa-union.org> copying the Managing Editor Wynne Musabayana at MusabayanaW@africa-union.org and DIC@africa-union.org:
I then had the following exchange with Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar:
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From: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: PG-RNA Foreign Affairs <mofa@pgrna.org>
Cc: <GamalK@africa-union.org>, <MusabayanaW@africa-union.org>, <DIC@africa-union.org>
Nsumna. Greetings.
Is there any update regarding my submission? Siphiwe
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From: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>, PG-RNA Foreign Affairs <mofa@pgrna.org>
Cc: Wynne Musabayana <MUSABAYANAW@africa-union.org>, Information and Communication Directorate <DIC@africa-union.org>
Dear Sir,
Thank you for the email.
The closing date for submission was on 18 October 2024. We are not accepting anymore articles.
I regret to inform you about that.
Regards,
Gamal
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From: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Yes. As per my email, I submitted the article on October 4th. I was requesting an update on the status of my submission.
Siphiwe
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From: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Cc: Wynne Musabayana <MUSABAYANAW@africa-union.org>
Dear Sir,
I did not receive this submission before.
I would like to confirm this.
Regards,
Gamal
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From: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Cc: Wynne Musabayana <MUSABAYANAW@africa-union.org>
Did you read the email thread? It shows the email I submitted on October 10. You asked me for my picture and bio…
Siphiwe
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From: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Sorry My email was October 4….
Siphiwe
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From: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Cc: Wynne Musabayana <MUSABAYANAW@africa-union.org>
Dear Mr Siphiwe,
It is not necessary to submit a picture of the author.
Please forward this email.
I thank you and regret again for not accepting your late submission.
Gamal
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From: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
It is NOT a late submission. It was submitted OCT 4th. I was asking about the status of my submission. It seems you are not reading the emails or understanding. I resent the original email from the original email address. Please read closely. THIS IS NOT A LATE SUBMISSION. It was submitted BEFORE the deadline.
Siphiwe
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From: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: PG-RNA Ministry of Foreign Affairs <pgrnaministryofforeignaffairs@gmail.com>
Dear Sir,
I will check with my colleague who is on copy if she received this.
Unfortunately, I did not receive this submission.
I thank you.
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On March 30, 2025, the African Union posted on its Facebook page,
“The AU ECHO 2025 Edition is still accepting submissions for its annual publication! This is your chance to contribute to a publication addressing one of the most pressing issues of our time. New Deadline: Monday, 31st March 2025 https://ow.ly/Z2QP50Vqz6v”
However, on March 24, I sent the following message:
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From: PG-RNA Foreign Affairs <mofa@pgrna.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Subject: Update on Original SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: GamalK <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Cc: <MusabayanaW@africa-union.org>, <DIC@africa-union.org>
Greetings Gamal,
I noticed that the submission deadline was extended. Can you give me an update on the status of my submission that was sent on October 4 (see below)?
By any means necessary,
Siphiwe Baleka, Minister of Foreign Affairs
On 2025-03-24 07:43, Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar wrote:
Dear Siphiwe Baleka,
Reference is made to your submissions for the AU ECHO 2025.
Your article titled: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA needs to be maximum of 1500 words.
Kindly reply back to this email with the amended article.
I thank you.
Gamal
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From: PG-RNA Foreign Affairs <mofa@pgrna.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: Update on Original SUBMISSION – AU ECHO 2025: THE DUM DIVERSAS WAR AND RE-ESTABLISHING THE COMMON REPARATORY JUSTICE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AFRICA AND NEW AFRIKA
To: Gamal Eldin Ahmed A. Karrar <GamalK@africa-union.org>
Cc: Wynne Musabayana <MUSABAYANAW@africa-union.org>, Information and Communication Directorate <DIC@africa-union.org>
Nsumna. Greetings Gamal,
Attached is the ammended article, the body of which contains 1,497 words.
As noted in my submitted article and my blog post, HISTORY OF THE MODERN REPARATIONS MOVEMENT THAT STARTED IN THE UNITED STATES AND HAS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE AFRICAN WORLD
Queen Mother Audley Moore appealed to the UN in 1957 and 1959 for reparations for African Americans. 𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, making her an international advocate. Interviewed by E. Menelik Pinto, Moore explained the petition, in which she asked for 𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 to monetarily compensate for 400 years of slavery. The petition also called for 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚. In 1962, Moore organized the Reparations Committee of the Descendants of United States Slaves, which filed a claim in California. She went to the White House in 1962 to meet with President John F. Kennedy. In 1963, at the time of the one hundred years of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Queen Mother set up the Reparations Committee with a petition drive to get signatures to demand reparations for slavery and 100 years of economic, political inequality.
In a Memo circulated at the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1964, Malcolm X told the African Heads of States, “If South Africa is guilty of violating the human rights of Africans here on the mother continent, then America is guilty of worse violations of the 22 million Africans on the American continent. And if South African racism is not a domestic issue, then American racism also is not a domestic issue. We beseech independent African states to help us bring our problem before the United Nations, on the grounds that the United States Government is morally incapable of protecting the lives and the property of 22 million African-Americans. And on the grounds that our deteriorating plight is definitely becoming a threat to world peace. . . . We are well aware that our future efforts to defend ourselves by retaliating—by meeting violence with violence, eye for eye and tooth for tooth—could create the type of racial conflict in America that could easily escalate into a violent, worldwide, bloody race war. In the interests of world peace and security, we beseech the heads of the independent African states to recommend an immediate investigation into our problem by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.” In October of that year, Malcolm X attended the OAU Liberation Committee headquarters in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, to get instructions and assistance for the New Afrikan Liberation Struggle and Independence Movement. On March 31, 1968, The Republic of New Afrika declared its independence with a demand for land to create a separate government composed of the “Black Belt” states in the southern U.S. and several billions of dollars in reparations. The first signer of the Declaration was Queen Mother Audley Moore. The Nixon Administration responded by escalating it’s war against the New Afrikan Independence Movement by launching the fabricated “War on Drugs”.
The Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PGRNA) submitted a reparations program called the Anti Depression Program to the National Black Political Convention in Gary, IN in 1972. The proposal called for a lump - sum reparations down payment and a negotiating committee between its subjugated government and the U.S. government, and successfully had the program adopted an the Convention. It was an act to determine the kind, dates, and other details of paying reparations.
On July 28, 1975, Queen Mother Audley Moore addressed the OAU meeting in Kampala, Uganda stating, “We ask our African brothers and sisters to make a public stand in defense of our just cause of self-determination against our common imperialist oppressor. We call upon our African brothers and sisters to support us in our just demands for reparations, self-determination and ask that you bring the United States before the United Nations General Assembly for violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and support our just demand for a United Nations convened plebiscite.” The United States government responded with its National Security Memorandum 46 which extended the COINTELPRO to Africa in order to prevent the unity between the New Afrikan Independence Movement and the liberation struggles in Africa. Its recommendations stated “In weighing the range of U.S. interests in Black Africa, basic recommendations arranged without intent to imply priority are:
1. Specific steps should be taken with the help of appropriate government agencies to inhibit coordinated activity of the Black Movement in the United States.
2. Special clandestine operations should be launched by the CIA to generate mistrust and hostility in American and world opinion against joint activity of the two forces, and to cause division among Black African radical national groups and their leaders. . . .
4. The FBI should mount surveillance operations against Black African representatives and collect sensitive information on those, especially at the U.N., who oppose U.S. policy toward South Africa. The information should include facts on their links with the leaders of the Black movement in the United States, thus making possible at least partial neutralization of the adverse effects of their activity.”
This led to the two-day World Tribunal on Reparations for Black People in the U.S. The pre-convention meeting was presided over by the New York based National Committee to Build the World Tribunal on Black Reparations. . . . The rules of the procedure for the convention were also adopted, and the Steering Committee voted to call the organization being built the African National Reparations Organization (ANRO). On November 15 and 16, 1986, ANRO held the Fifth Session of the World Tribunal on Reparations for Black People in the U.S. Serving on the international panel of judges at the Fifth Session were Chaminuka Mnombatha of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azuania-UN Mission; OUsainou Mbenga from Gambia; and Serge Mukendi from the Workers and Peasants Party-Congo.
The Anti Depression Program adopted at the National Black Political Assembly Convention in 1972 would become the basis of the 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐀 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟕 prepared by President of the PGRNA Imari Obadele (September 1987). The act proposed the following, simple and logical formula for reparations:
1. One-third of the annual sum shall go directly to each individual;
2. One-third of the annual sum shall go directly to the duly elected government of the Republic of New Afrika and to any other state-building entity of New Afrikan people; and
3. One-third of the annual sum shall be paid directly to a National Congress of Organizations. And all of this to be framed and manifested through a PLEBISCITE.
According to the 1989 article REPARATIONS: POSSIBLE THROUGH UNITY by Atty. Adjoa Aiyetoro National N-COBRA Co-Chairperson: “A coalition was formed in November 1987 which has as its purpose to make the demand for reparations a national priority and international issue. This group is called the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America [N'COBRA). Numerous individuals and organizations are members. The organizations include the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, the New Afrikan People's Organization, and the Black Reparations Commission. A call is out to all Black-led organizations to join this Coalition. The Nation of Islam has participated in the N'COBRA meetings. The idea for N'COBRA came out of the National Conference of Black Lawyers' 1987 conference on the United States Constitution. [PGRNA President] Dr. Imari A. Obadele initiated the call for the creation of N'COBRA. Vince Godwin, representing the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Republic of New Afrika, served as the initial acting chairperson of N'COBRA. The National Conference of Black Lawyers and the RNA Foreign Affairs Ministry served as the initial coordinators of N'COBRA.”
In my article, WILL THE DECADE OF REPARATIONS RESULT IN THE FOLLY OF THE AU-LED REPARATIONS ELITE CAPTURE? WHY CITIZENSHIP IS THE HEART OF THE PROCESS & THE 1ST PRIORITY IS TO TAKE THE VATICAN TO THE ICJ AND ICC, I noted, “The Anti Depression Program adopted at the National Black Political Assembly Convention in 1972 became the basis of the 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐀 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟕 prepared by President of the PGRNA Imari Obadele. By November of 1991, ANRO hosted the 10th Session of the International Tribunal on Reparations for African People in the U.S. (notice the name change) in Philadelphia. Then, on the suggestion of US Congressman Ron Dellums (who had received the Reparations Act submitted by PRGRNA President Imari Obadele) and Jamaican lawyer and diplomat Dudley S. Thompson, the wealthy Nigerian businessman, Chief Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola, who was later elected President of Nigeria, although never permitted to take office, suggested establishing a Group of Eminent Persons (GEP) to pursue reparations for slavery and (perhaps) other wrongs perpetrated on Africa. On 28 June 1992, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) swore in a twelve-member GEP, with Chief Abiola as its Chairman, whose mandate was to pursue the goal of reparations to Africa. This is what led to the First Pan-African Conference on Reparations that was held in Abuja, Nigeria, April 27-29, 1993, sponsored by the (GEP) and the Commission for Reparations of the Organization of African Unity.”
It was this history that I wished to share with the African Union community through publication of my article in AU ECHO 2025 which I submitted as the current PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and NCOBRA International Affairs Commissioner. But for some reason, the very history of the modern reparations movement, how the first Group of Eminent Persons on Reparations was formed and resulted in the 1993 Abuja Proclamation, all traceable to the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the establishment of the National Coalition of Black’s For Reparations in America (N’COBRA), was rejected.
Now consider:
Reparations have been designated as a Flagship Project of Agenda 2063, the AU's 50-year blueprint for development. This gives the agenda priority in the AU Budget Framework and strategic planning.
The Resolution on Africa’s Reparations Agenda and The Human Rights of Africans In the Diaspora and People of African Descent Worldwide - ACHPR/Res.543 (LXXIII) 2022 - Dec 12, 2022 "2. Calls upon member states to: . . . take measures to eliminate barriers to acquisition of citizenship and identity documentation by Africans in the diaspora; to establish a committee to consult, seek the truth, and conceptualize reparations from Africa’s perspective, describe the harm occasioned by the tragedies of the past, establish a case for reparations (or Africa’s claim), and pursue justice for the trade and trafficking in enslaved Africans, colonialism and colonial crimes, and racial segregation and contribute to non-recurrence and reconciliation of the past;, . . . 4. Encourages civil society and academia in Africa, to embrace and pursue the task of conceptualizing Africa’s reparations agenda with urgency and determination.” I completed the task and presented Africa’s reparations claim to the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) on April 5, 2023 and to the Accra Reparations Conference in November 2023 which produced the Accra Proclamation. This document which begins, “We, the delegates participating in the Accra Reparations Conference . . . (and thus, as a sponsored delegate, makes it my document though I was not consulted in the drafting process) called for a Committee of Experts on Reparations, in consultation with Member States, ECOSOCC and other AU Organs as well as the RECs, for the purpose of developing a Common African Policy on Reparations and incorporating therein, an African Reparatory Programme of Action as well as the formation of a Legal Reference Group to provide “legal advice on the question of reparations, including best practice on the law, practice and litigation of the reparation’s agenda.” The Proclamation also explicitly proposed creating the role of an AU Champion for Reparations to be held by the President of Ghana. After the Accra Reparations Conference, I created and continue to administrate the Accra Reparations Conference WhatsApp group for the delegates that attended that included, Akwasi Awua Ababio, Director of Diaspora Affairs, Ghana; Baidoo Nana Lartey of the Diaspora Affairs Office, Ghana; Brian Kagoro, Managing Director of Programmes at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) which funds most of the AU ECOSOOCC programs; Epsy Campbell Barr, former President of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent; Hilary Brown, Programme Manager, Culture Community Development at the CARICOM Secretariat; Justice Blaise Tchikaya Chair AU Commission For International Law; Justin Hansford, Member of the UN PFPAD; Adwoa Coleman, Advisor on Policy Organs for the Chairperson of the African Union Commission; and many others. Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Ghana’s Presidential Special Envoy on Reparations was added to the group on December 4, 2025.
As I noted in my June 6, 2025 article What Role for the Afro Descendants in the African Union's Commission for International Law (AUCIL) and the Proposed Legal Reference Group? The Case of the Republic of New Afrika,
“I, Siphiwe Baleka, attended the 2023 Accra Reparations Conference as a sponsored-delegate in my capacity as the President of the Balanta B’urassa History & Genealogy Society in America (BBHAGSIA) and Coordinator of the New Afrikan Diplomatic and Civil Service Corps (NADCSC). On February 26, 2024, as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, I sent to the office of the AU Commission For International Law (AUCIL) a 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐅 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏 𝐎𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 regarding the New Afrikan Independence Movement's struggle for liberation and the Request for an ICJ Advisory Opinion and included the brilliant work, It’s a Matter of Law by the New Afrikan Military Science Institute MSI 2-2 Report of 21 November 2010 detailing the EXACT legal issues concerning the status of black people in the United States.. It was hand delivered and stamped. After receiving no response after 151 days, I sent a follow-up letter to the AUCIL that was hand-delivered and stamped at the AU on July 12, 2024. Follow-up messages designed to sensitize the AU Commission and the AUCIL of THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA were also sent via WhatsApp to Dr. Namira Negm, Legal Council at the African Union, on September 12, 2024, September 18, 2024, April 9, 2025, April 16, 2025, April 22, 2025, and May 18, 2025. After 466 days, no response has yet been received. “ Meanwhile, The 1983 Abuja Proclamation
“Urges the Organization of African Unity to grant observer status to select organizations from the African Diaspora in order to facilitate consultations between Africa and its Diaspora on reparations and related issues.”
Following the Abuja Proclamation recommendation, as the PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs, I did the following:
3 February 2024 - The Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Applies to Renew Observer Status at the African Union
26 February 2024 - Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Advises African Union Legal Reference Group
26 April 2024 - Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika Statement to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
26 April 2024 - THE POLITICAL-LEGAL HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AND THE WAR WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
27 April 2024 - Analysis by the Republic of New Afrika of Legal Issues Requiring an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice
July 12, 2024 The Republic of New Afrika Returns to the African Union for Diaspora Day
September 29, 2024 NCOBRA Internation Affairs Commission Quarterly Zoom: PGRNA Minister of Foreign Affairs and BBHAGSIA President Discusses The Role of the African Union and Reparations [Note invitations were sent to several AU ECOSOCC officials, only one of whom responded and no official accepted the invitation].
4. At the Conference of the African Union Thirty-eight Ordinary Session, held 15-16 February 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and which I also attended, the Togolese Republic proposed the CONCEPT NOTE: QUALIFICATION OF SLAVERY, OF THE DEPORTATION AND COLONIZATION OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE AGAINST THE PEOPLES OF AFRICA that states,
“12. REQUESTS the AU Commission For International Law (AUCIL), in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to undertake a study on the qualification of colonization as a crime against humanity as well as on the qualification of certain acts committed during slavery, deportation and colonization as acts of genocide against the peoples of Africa, and to submit a report to the Assembly in February 2026.”
In my report from that event, I reminded everyone that,
“Finally, it should be noted and understood that it is the Garveyites and the UNIA, RasTafarites, the Ethiopian World Federation (EWF), the Malcomites and the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) out of which came the National Coalition of Black for Reparations in America (NCOBRA) which have the oldest legacy concerning Repatriation, Reparations, Pan Africanism, and working with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU). I have histories and/or mandates from all of them. When I arreived at the African Union the first time in 2003, I was specifically sent by the Rastafari community that had repatriated to the Shashemane Land Grant after having been mentored by Malcom X’s last and greatest student of his political philosophy, Dr. Y.N. Kly (author of THE BLACK BOOK: The True Political Philosophy Of Malcolm X and many others.) as well as Shaka Barak, founder and President of the Marcus Garvey Institute, Former UNIA 3rd Assistant President General and Minister of Education, and one of the last students of General Charles L James of Gary, Indiana who was the first Valedictorian of Marcus Garvey’s Course on African Philosophy which I had completed. I then went as an African Diaspora representative to the 9th Ordinary Session of the African Union “Grand Debate on the Union Government” which resolved that “the ultimate objective of the African Union is the United States of Africa with a Union Government as envisaged by the founding fathers of the Organization of African Unity and, in particular, the visionary leader, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana” and “the importance of involving the African peoples, including Africans in the Diaspora in the processes leading to the formation of the Union Government.” THAT project was taken up by the Pan African Federalist Movement (PAFM) that initiated the Call for the First Pan African Federalist Congress on Thursday February 26, 2015 by Senegalese Pan Africanists, most of whom were companions of Cheikh Anta Diop, Abdoulaye Wade or Leopold Sedar Senghor who were pioneers in the effort to create a viable state of Africans, by Africans and for Africans. The massive response to this call led to the Convening of the Pre-First Pan African Federalist Congress which was held in Accra Ghana, from December 8 to the 13, 2018. This Pre-Congress was attended by more than six hundred Pan Africanists coming from more than 50 countries around the World. I now serve as the President of the International Preparatory Committee of the PAFM Communications Commission. Thus, when I returned to the African Union twenty-one (21) years later as the Coordinator of the African Diaspora Assembly Provisional 6th Region Elections, I did so as the Head of Communications for the PAFM and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PGRNA) having already applied to renew the PGRNA’s Observer Status to the African Union and sent briefs advising the African Union’s Legal Reference Group on Reparations. I had served as the Coordinator for the 8th Pan African Congress Part I called by H.E. Arikana Chihombori Quao and was currently serving on NCOBRA’s International Affairs Commission which had invited AU Officials to discuss the AU 2025 Theme of the Year, “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.” I came with official endorsements from the UNIA, from the Ethiopian World Federation (EWF), the Pan African Council, the Global African Congress UK, and the African Diaspora Union (AFRIDU). “
5. On November 20, 2025, Ghana hosted the International Conference of the Pan-African Progressive Front marking the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress held in Manchester in 1945. Over two days, more than 200 delegates from 57 countries across Africa, the Caribbean, and the global diaspora discussed mechanisms for full compensation for centuries of colonial exploitation and plunder. The conference was officially opened by Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama, the African Union's Champion for Reparations. Strangely, though I was a leading Pan Africanist involved in all the efforts to organize a Pan African Congress in 2024, I was not invited. The resulting Declaration supports the creation of multi-level reparations bodies — national, regional, and continental — and strengthening cooperation among Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. One of the conference participants, Ouzeirou Mamane, president of the Pan-African Movement for Reparations, Justice, and Restoration of Historical Memory, emphasized: "It is very important that we have moved to practical steps. Equally important is the fact that the conference included not only representatives from the African continent and Latin America but also a representative of the U.S. embassy. This signifies that Africa's partners across the ocean understand not only the issue of reparations but also the just expectations of Africans vis-à-vis Europe."
5. On December 19, the President of Ghana Received a Global Group of Experts on Reparations to Advance a Unified Reparations Agenda.
Some of those pictured: Bright Sefa, William Carew, Brian Kagoro, President Mahama, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and Nkechi Taifa
According to the AU ECOSOCC website, “During the meeting, the group of experts reflected on the extensive work each organisation in the collective has been doing to advance the reparatory justice agenda in their respective geographies and spaces. They presented to the President priorities to be undertaken as part of the upcoming African Union (AU) Decade of Reparations. Key among these issues is the strengthening of collaboration and transcontinental coordination between state and non-state actors. . . . The group, which includes civil society practitioners, strategists, feminists, philanthropists, academics and affected community advocates, offered to complement the efforts of the newly constituted AU Committee of Experts on Reparations (AUCER) and other mechanisms established to pursue justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations. . . . Earlier on Wednesday 17th December, the group met with the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, as well as the Presidential Envoy on Reparations, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah. The meeting discussed ways to solidify interactions between government and civil society groups working on reparatory justice in and outside of the continent. . . . The meetings with the Foreign Minister and the President were facilitated by the African Union-ECOSOCC, Trust Africa and Reform Initiatives.” Again, though I had the most advanced reparations legal strategy, had appeared three times on Nkechi Taifa’s Human Rights and Justice podcast, and had opened collaborative communications channels with African Union-ECOSOCC, Trust Africa and Reform Initiatives, I was still not invited. It is fair to say that either these key stakeholders STILL don’t understand the new reparations narrative and unifying legal strategy, or they have rejected it in favor of the obsolete strategy that has already been defeated repeatedly.
6. Ghana President John Dramani Mahama was officially appointed as the African Union (AU) Champion for Reparations during the 39th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly in February 2026. At that time, , the Government of Ghana hosted a critical two-day joint Bureau meeting of the AUCER and the African Union Legal Experts on Reparations (AULER).
7. According to the Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Ghana website, “President Mahama reported significant progress in establishing continental mechanisms to pursue reparations for the legacies of transatlantic enslavement, colonialism, and apartheid. These include the AU Coordination Team on Reparations, the AU Committee of Experts on Reparations (AUCER), and a Reference Group of Legal Experts (AULER).
8. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MFA&RI) is the primary government organ responsible for the formulation, coordination, and implementation of Ghana’s foreign policy and has recently taken a specialized lead in the global reparations movement. MFA&RI is the chief diplomatic architect and executive arm of Ghana's reparations agenda. While the President serves as the African Union (AU) Champion on Reparations, the Ministry translates this high-level vision into actionable international policy and legal frameworks. The Ministry is the lead agency for the AU's "Decade of Reparations" (2026–2036), coordinating with the AU Commission to institutionalize the agenda. It established a high-level committee to coordinate international consultations and refine the legal framework for reparatory justice, drafted and successfully tabled the historic March 2026 UN Resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the "gravest crime against humanity".
9. In his March 22, 2026, address, Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa stated, “And finally, to the global community of scholars, researchers, legal unions, academia and reparations activists who have carried this torch across decades, often without institutional support and always against the weight of inertia: history will record your perseverance as the indispensable precondition for everything that follows. This moment belongs, in no small measure, to you.” In his address at the UN and related press conferences, President Mahama explicitly thanked the African Union (AU), CARICOM (Caribbean Community), the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and the Global Group of Experts on Reparations has frequently called for a "unified African and Diaspora narrative.”
10. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MFA&RI) works closely with the Office of the Presidential Special Envoy on Reparations led by Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah to align technical legal advice with Ghana’s broader diplomatic strategy. The Ministry is currently organizing a high-level conference for June 18–19, 2026, in Accra.
Here are some excerpts from my exchange with the Ghana Presidential Special Envoy on Reparations:
December 5, 20205:
Siphiwe: Congratulations on your new appointment. Here is a thorough chronological compilation of my work in the reparations Movement. It is an invaluable resource.
December 19, 2025:
Siphiwe: I'd like to discuss with you the Lineage Restoration Reparations & Repatriation model. It is proving itslef successful here in Guinea Bissau.
Ekow: Much appreciated. Are you at the Diaspora Conference in Ghana? If so, kindly introduce yourself to me at the Conference/Summit
Siphiwe: Unfortunately, in spite of all of my work in this area, I wasn’t informed, let alone invited.
January 30, 2026:
Siphiwe: Greetings Ekow. I trust you are well. I would like your assistance in convening a three-way call with your counterpart in Benin - whoever is responsible for their Diaspora citizenship program to dscuss the campaign for a comprehensive AU citizenship policy based on the Benin and Ghana models.
Ekow: Dear Siphiwe, The citizenship program is a preserve of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ghana. As you must know, I am the President’s Special Envoy for Reparations, which is a related but different subject. Reparations, as you may be aware, is often conflated with Repatriation, which is about Citizenship. I suggest that you kindly consider writing to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. There is an African-American community in Ghana, whose issue of DOORS is mainly about Repatriation. I shall hope to connect you with their leader in due course. Of course, I shall be honored to meet you as well soon to compare notes on what we can jointly do to support the Reparations agenda. Thanks Ekwow
Siphiwe: Thank you for the clarification. I do have contacts with many Repatriates in Ghana, many closely associated with the development of Ghana's citizenship program. I myself was present in Accra during the 2007 Joseph Project and the AU Grand Debate and of course, I am aware of the work of Dr. Erika Bennett and DAF. I am currently working with Honorable Commissioner Dr. Litha Musyimi-Ogana , Chairperson of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities and Minorities in Africa at the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights on tracking all citizenships granted. As far as reparations, I would like to discuss with you how Ghana can approach the Vatican to implement a dna-testing program as reparations for their role in committing ethnocide, pursuant to RESOLUTION ON THE AFRICAN COMMISSION’S CONTRIBUTION TO IMPLEMENTING THE AFRICAN UNION THEME OF THE YEAR 2025: “JUSTICE FOR AFRICANS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT THROUGH REPARATIONS” - ACHPR/Res 653.(EXT.OS/XXXIX) 2025 - https://www.balanta.org/news/achpr-resolution-653
Ekow: Great. You can send OGR a Proposal on your Vatican idea so we test it’s feasibility before deciding the best Course of Action. This way, there would be documented exchanges with your office, so no one can claim ownership of your ideas. Until we hear from you, please accept our best wishes for a restful weekend.
February 12, 2026:
Siphiwe: Nsumna. Greetings Ekow. I trust you are well. I just received my invitation to attend the CELAC-Africa High-Level Forum in Bogotá, D.C. I trust you will be there. Attached is the pilot project that I would like to raise with OGR via your suggested Proposal. Please give me a quick 5 minute call to discuss how I should proceed. This is consistent with my intervention at the 85th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) which subsequently adopted my recommendations and passed Resolution 653 that, "4. Calls upon Member States to facilitate voluntary heritage and ancestry tracing for people of African descent with appropriate safeguards for privacy and data protection, and to consider pathways for residency, citizenship, and mobility in accordance with national laws.” https://www.balanta.org/news/achpr-resolution-653
Ekow: Many thanks from Addis AUC meeting where Reparations is very much on the Agenda tomorrow PM. Not clear what you expect the OGR to do with your letters, except to take note. If you prefer to have an official relationship with OGR of Ghana, then kindly write to that specific effect, itemizing the areas of cooperation you wish to have. On CELAC, we don’t have an invitation. You can share the details of the Africa High-Level Forum you have specified in your letter. As a Ghana Government Agency, we are happy to receive any invitations to Conferences, Meetings or Events where the subject matter is relevant to our mandate.
Siphiwe: This is why I would like to talk to you. I know nothing about the OGR or how to submit a proposal to it. I sent the document so you could understand the project. It’s quite simple. The Vatican launched the Dum Diversas War. They gave Asiento monopoly war contracts to traffick and enslave the prisoners of that war, many of them from Ghana. Those prisoners suffered Ethnocide. The projects is to get the Vatican and the former Asiento contract holders to pay for DNA testing and return tours for the victims who still suffer Ethnocide today. As Ghana has the AU’s mandate on reparations, the OGR should be very much involved…..
Ekow: Agreed. If you have copies of the Contracts or Papal Bulls as part of the Historical Records, OGR would appreciate a copy. We are new, so our official documents are still in preparation. We have not been officially launched or Commissioned as yet. So for now, we are in an information gathering and learning mode. We are happy to be educated by yourself and other longer-serving veterans of the Reparations agenda. Kindly advise your usual physical location, so we can jointly determine how best to engage. I am not available this week, as I am with my President in Addis for the AUC Summit.
Siphiwe: I live in Bissau, Guinea Bissau. Use this link to schedule a short call with me:
Ekow: Okay then for next week, Sir
March 3, 2026:
Siphiwe: Nsumna. Greetings my friend. Per our conversations, please send me your email. I would like to invite you to a high level meeting concerning the 25th Anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism and the Durban Declaration. The meeting is to coordinate actions with UN PFPAD, ACHPR, International Working Group on the Implemenntation of the Durban Declaration, and others. 26 key stakeholders are invited to the meeting which has supporting Ghana’s upcoming UN Resolution on the agenda. So please forward your email so I can send your invitation and Concept note
March 7, 2026:
Siphiwe: Greetings Ekow. I trust you are well. The meeting is starting in 2 hours at 4:00 pm GMT and I see that you did not register. Please come to the meeting:
OBJECTIVE:
Coordinate action between
1) the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (IWGDDPA);
2) the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD);
3) the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR),
4) the governments of Ghana and South Africa (the two governments that have a leading role) as well as
5) civil society and key stakeholders
to produce events celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism and the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) while prioritizing the implementation of DDPA points 52, 54, 55, 79, 80, 84, 87, 104, 158, 160, 161, 162, 166, 168, 172, 173, 191 and II.12 through the campaign to mandate The Permanent Forum on People of African Descent to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on “The status of Afro Descendant People as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention and their right to conduct plebiscites for self-determination.”
2026 marks the 25th Anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism and the resulting Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA). Saturday, August 29, 2026 (8/29), is designated as a Day of Unity and Action so that people remember and understand the importance of Durban and its implementation today. [See attached ENDORSE 8.29.26 DURBAN DECLARATION COMMEMORATION DAY]
Ekow: So so sorry. I had another important event today, so passed the Registration on to a colleague. Apologies if no one showed up on our behalf. We shall appreciate a little more advance notification next time.
March 9, 2026: [In response to the report on the meetings and the article, DURBAN 25: ON THE STRATEGY OF THE BALANTA MANDATE REQUESTING AN ADVISORY OPINION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE ON REPARATIONS & THE STATUS OF AFRODESCENTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW]
Ekow: Dear Siphiwe, Hello and congratulations on your recent meeting, which I regretted to have missed. Do keep me informed as usual and looking forward to assist you in due course. Thanks for all you do for Africa, Africans and the Diaspora worldwide. Blessings Ekwow Spio-Garbrah PSER, Accra
March 25, 2026:
Siphiwe: Nsumna. Greetings Ekow. Congratulations to Ghana and President Mahama. Please click, read and study the article I just posted - UN Adopts Ghana's Slavery Crime Against Humanity Resolution and AI Concludes that President John Mahama Should Adopt The Legal Strategy of the Balanta Mandate Presented by Siphiwe Baleka. 👆🏾I would like to get an audience with President Mahama and the Team of Reparations Legal Experts to discuss what AI concludes is a brilliant reparations legal strategy. I’m not sure Ghana has fully considered it.....
March 26, 2026:
Ekow: Greetings, Sir, from the City of Philadelphia. If your primary interest is in Legal Actions, then I suggest you may begin by Consulting with the AU Committees of Legal Experts as well as the Committee on Reparations. Otherwise, to seek an appointment with the AU Champion, President Mahama, you may write to the Secretary to the President, Office of the President, Jubilee House, Accra. Most likely, you will be referred to the Hon Attorney-General of Ghana, or to the Legal Advisor to the President. You can assume hat the President of Ghana takes important decisions with upon the advise of a plethora of Advisors. So it is usually more productive to convince the various professionals along the line, than aim for the top and be referred back to senior officials.
April 15, 2026:
Siphiwe:
From: New Afrikan Diplomatic Corps <newafrikandiplomaticcorps@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Subject: Formal Recommendation for the Appointment of Siphiwe Baleka to the AU Committee of Experts on Reparations or Legal Reference Group on Reparations
To: <africanunion@un.int>, <aumission_ny@yahoo.com>
Cc: <auddr@africa-union.org>, <elections.ecosocc@africa-union.org>, <infony@mfa.gov.gh>, <nyconsular@mfa.gov.gh>, Ekow Spio-Garbrah <espiog@msn.com>, <au-banjul@africanunion.org>, <achpr.stcincoming@africa-union.org>, <achpr.session@african-union.org>
Please see attached documents and acknowledge receipt.
Respectfully,
Brassa Mada aka Siphiwe Baleka,
Afrodescendant Theocratic Special Envoy Extraordinary
& Reparations Expert
High Chancellor of Lineage & Ancestral Return, Alafia High Council
Ekow: Much appreciated. Will await the responses of the AUC and Ghana Presidency, which have authority to appoint persons to AUC Committees.
Siphiwe: Please - take the time to really understand the innovations in the new strategy. I really think the AUC and Ghana Presidency will appreciate this but the challenge is getting their eyes on it. That is where I am hoping you will assist. 🙏🏾
April 16, 2026:
Ekow: We all know Reparations is a Global thing, not a Ghana thing or Africa thing. That is why President Mahama took the matter to the UN—well beyond Africa. You letter addressed to the Ghana Mission to the UN is very much appreciated. . . . Blessings and best wishes to you and family.
Siphiwe: My friend - I need access to the legal group. Need them to seriously understand this legal strategy. If I have to navigate the beauracracy myself, we all may lose out. I need to know who are the leaders/decision makers and I need to present directly to them. Imagine you had a Michael Jordan and kept him on the bench…? Everyone who actually studies what I have written has the “ah ha” moment of enlightenment. But so far none of Ghana’s reparations leadership has reached out to me or responded with the exception of you. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has even concluded that the Ghana should follow my strategy. So in this, I am in need of your service….
Ekow: Always happy to assist you and all working in our mutual global interest.