HARAMBEE MOVEMENT'S 10 POINT PROGRAM FOR PAN AFRICAN UNIFICATION

                     HARAMBEE MEANS "LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER"

1. Unity of the Pan African Community - Continental and Diaspora, with Operational Unity being a primary vehicle. 

Unification needs to occur in several areas, politically, economically, socially, spiritually and culturally. Also must occur on several levels; personal, family, neighborhood/village, community, Region, Nation, Pan African Community, World. This process can be achieved by forming alliances, coalitions, collaborations, NGO's, Consortiums, partnerships and any other forms of institution building which contribute to the achievement of this goal.  

2. Self Determination and Sovereignty - Consistent with the 6 Regions defined by the African Union (AU), only African People have the right and responsibility to define boundaries, currency, and resource management in Africa and the Caribbean. The effects of colonialism must be totally deconstructed on a personal, institutional and territorial level. The Challenge to our youth and intellectual groups, is how to rebuild African peoples lives based on 21st century needs and aspirations, without sacrificing and/or diminishing the character and integrity of African culture and its rich traditions.

3. The Ascension of African/Black Women - Rejection of any restrictive rights and role of Women by religious or ideological constraints, and the realization, recognition and promotion of Womens' Role in building viable and sustainable institutions and industries which develop African Community. The Harambee Movement calls for an All African Harambee Women's Movement which allows for women to define their own goals and aspirations in their own image and interests.

4. The Raising up of a Pan African Youth Corp which the Harambee Movement calls Simba Wachanga (Young Lions)(from the Kenyan Movement of the same name). Youth have a responsible role in the defense and development of building an African Global Community. In order to accomplish this goal we must build an internal educational system which is best embodied in an Harambee Rites of Passage: 

A PAN AFRICAN SIMBA WACHANGA (YOUNG LIONS) MOVEMENT/YOUTH CORPS IS:
S - SHIELD TO OUR PEOPLE SPEAR TO OUR ENEMY
I - INSPIRATION TO YOUTH INNOVATORS OF REVOLUTION
M - MONUMENT TO OUR ANCESTORS MOVEMENT FOR LIBERATION
B - BUILDERS OF OUR NATION BROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD
A - ADVOCATES OF MA'AT ALTERNATIVE TO THEM

The Simba Movement would be a methodology of engaging with our youth in a pro-active, meaningful and sustainable manner. It is also a re-socialization process utilizing African centered paradigms to teach basic community standards of behavior and conduct. In this regard, Harambee offers the following Rites of Passage Curriculum for the Simba Wachanga:


RITES OF PASSAGE PROPOSAL FOR THE BUILDING OF A PAN AFRICAN YOUTH CORPS/SIMBA WACHANGA:
A SUGGESTED CURRICULUM
by Mwalimu Kabaila on Friday,
July 30, 2010 at 2:31pm

The Rites of Passage should address:

1. Developing a Multi-dimensional Personality
a. learning one of the arts - music, art, poetry, architecture, computer arts,
b. learning African centered spirituality and values training - Maat, Ifa, Dogon, Zulu, Akhan, etc.
c. Basic knowledge and understanding of Black History - Kemet, Songhay, Mali,Ghana Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance, Black Cultural Revolution, Black Arts Movement.
d. Learning 1 or more African Languages or that POD speak

2. Physical development
a. African Martial arts, Kemetic yoga, meditation, capoeira, etc.
b. routine of running, walking, swimming, hiking, bicycling, etc.
c. Survival and Disaster training
d. Team sport can be a substitute in this area

3. Community Orientation
a. Senior escort service
b. youth corp training curriculum and means of implementation - Pan African Youth Corps; Community Alert Patrol for gangs and drugs.
c. participation in political campaigns and/or community organizing
d. Regularly scheduled field trips to museums, zoos, plays, park concerts, drives in the country, hiking, camping, bicycling, planetariums, Expos, Family reunions
e. Learning Enviromental concerns and doing Community Farming
f. Volunteering for the Community Marketplace

4. Basic Education and Tutoring
a. Science, Math, Language, writing skills proficiency
b. basic intro to African languages and encouragement to learn at least one extra language.
c. Science, Math, African centered Architecture, computer technology,
d. Maatian  and Mbongi governance systems
e. Matching Career choices with needs of the Community

5. Social Skills
a. relationship training and orientation with reinforcing rituals
b. sexuality from Afrocentric perspective
c. family skills and orientation
d. Communal principles of building community in contemporary society
e. Health - Learning how Food is our Medicine

[6] Economic Values Orientation
a. how to develop, follow and evaluate a personal budget
b. understanding the importance of a personal savings program
c. practicing collective economic investment and/or wealth-building
d. triangular development (Africa, Caribbean, Africa America and other Diasporan communities)
e. Cooperative Economics orientatation
f. Understanding Micro and Macro Economic and Development Planning

[7] Development of Work Habits and Ethics
a. how to plan, use and assess a personal schedule
b. learning to set and accept responsibility for personal priorities
c. practicing collective decision-making and/or organizing
d. Time Management
e. Physical Work out Regimen

{8} Study Abroad
a. Especially in Africa and the Caribbean

(9) Spiritual Development
a. Maat, Yoruba, Zulu, Akhan, Dogon, etc.
b. wellness, massage, acupuncture, Reiki, meditation

Some of the essential goals and objectives here, in my opinion, should be to establish some community standards and expectations for our youth and establish a system of reward and sanctions that reinforce these, and to institute a type of graduation ceremony with progressive African rituals.

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5. Reclamation of African and Caribbean Land and Resources from Alien Hands, and a Worldwide Demand for Reparations as a Healing, and to make African People Whole Again.

Healing and Reparations must occur for the interruption of African History and cultural continuity, for the forced displacement and dispersement of our people from their Homeland, and the organized and intentional genocide imposed on African People on a Global scale, continuing, even until today.There can be no forgiving or forgetting until/unless these debts are paid in full by the perpetrators and their progeny who have benefitted from said genocide and destruction.  

6. To Engage in the process of building Pan African Communities through Institution and Industry Building:

     A. Council of Elders and Queen Mother Circles 

     B. Harambee Women and Men Circles

     C. Simba Wachanga, Pan African Youth Movement and Corps

     D. African Marriage Ceremonies (Arusi) based on African values, customs and tradition, but adjusted to todays' needs and aspirations.

     E. Funary Services which are cost effecient, yet represent the best of African tradition.

      F. Naming Ceremonies, Newborn Whispers, Holidays, Sacred Days which reinforce African  Unification Values of Maat and Nguzo Saba.

      G. Implementation of the Garvey admonition to build and control every Industry which affects our daily life and destiny.

      H. Building Workers Unions, Professional Associations

      I.  In order to maintain connection with African Tribal history, traditions, values and customs, sororities and fraternities should adopt Tribal names, where part of the initiation is learning the history and contributions of said tribes.

7.  Re-introduction and Re-enforcement of African Spiritual Values and Ethics as basis for Social and Cultural formation.

        A. The Congress of African People asserts that African based values, such as Virtues of Ma'at and Nguzo Saba (7 Principles of Kwanzaa) form a firm foundation for social justice and social cohesion. This is counterposed to the position of Western theorists who posit that Law is the basis for social cohesion and justice, even when reality dictates and reveals that law can be manipulated to serve the interests of the ruling race-class, at the expense of mass interests.

          B. CAP encourages the study of research of the value structure of each African ethnic group and how to integrate them into new social, geo-political and cultural paradigms via the Evolution through Fusion System.

8. To Expand the Meaning and Practical Effect of the African Renaissance to all African Communities.

          A. The African Renaissance is defined by advances in philosophy, culture, language, governance, economics, health, education, STEM, agriculture, communications, transportation, etc. The key and common element to these advances are the degree to which they improve the quality of life of African people.

           B. Another key challenge of the Renaissance is to increase the capacity of the brain by no less that 10%, consistent with our ability to build pyramids and discover Sirius B without a telescope.

9. Food Sovereignty - 

This is a key demand of the Harambee Movement which is key to our health and well being as a people. GMO foods have contributed to African people becoming susceptable to Western disease processes. Thus, the Harambee Movement adopts the adage that "Food is our Medicine, and our Medicine is our Food". NO GMO seeds on African or Caribbean soil or land. Build Seed Banks. We encourage Urban and personal gardening. The redefinition of Soul Food as Super Spirit Food.

10. To be and become good Stewards of the Earth and the bounty, therein. We shall develop good and principled standards and practices of environmental protection, ecology, agriculture, waste management and nutrition.