African in the Diaspora (those who live outside of Africa), are
scattered in over sixty countries. A Pan-Africanist political
Some Aspects of the AAPRP: Its
Origins, Ideology, Objective and
Program
African People all over the world are suffering from
exploitation. It is only in this light that we can understand the
poverty of African People when Africa is one of the
richest continents in the world.
The All-African People's Revolutionary (A-APRP) knows that
the root of this exploitation is economic. We are certain that
its inevitable end can only be achieved through the political
unification of the African continent. This is an indispensable
first step.
The only thing that Africa lacks to control her destiny is a Pan-
African political Party. African People the world over are
politically disorganized, with few exceptions. It is here that, the
All-African People's Revolutionary Party comes to play her
full role in making her humble contributions in the continuing
struggle to organize our People.
PAN-AFRICANISM: THE CORRECT OBJECTIVE OF THE
AFRICAN REVOLUTION!
Party understands that "all People of African descent, whether
they live in North or South America, the Caribbean or in any
part of the world; are Africans, and belong to the African
Nation." Kwame Nkrumah, CLASS STRUGGLE IN AFRICA,
page 87.
Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa
under scientific socialism, is a historically determined
inevitability. It is the only objective which can end the
suffering of African People scattered, suffering and struggling
all over the world. That is why it is the objective of
the All-African People's Revolutionary Party.
The history of Africa demonstrates that Pan-Africanism is a
natural evolutionary process. Some of the characteristics of this
process include:
The cluster of humanist principles underlying the cultural unity
of Africa.
. the constant migration of African People which provided for
more contact among the People.
. the movement towards building bigger and bigger African
states.
The thrust for revolutionary Pan-Africanism is a result of the
capitalist penetration and rape of Africa, which intensified in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The brutal exploitation
which Africa suffered under slavery, colonialism and settler-
colonialism is well known. Unified African resistance is the
only logical response.
The mass resistance against these diabolical forces continues to
gather momentum. From Soweto, Azania/South Africa; to
Nova Scotia, Canada; slave uprisings, urban rebellions and
guerilla warfare were constant occurrences and will remain so
until we achieve Pan-Africanism. Our struggle has been and
remains a long one.
In 1900, Pan-Africanism was capable of assuming modern
organizational expression and form. The First Pan-African
Conference was held in London, England. During this period,
Pan-Africanist forces sprung up wherever African people were
scattered.
Henry Sylvester Williams (born in Trinidad), Duse Mohammed
Effendi (also known as Duse Mohammed Ali, born in Egypt);
the Honorable Marcus Garvey, (who founded the Universal
Negro Improvement Association, born in Jamaica); and
W. E. B. DuBois, (who was one of the founders of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, born in
the U.S.); were some of Pan-Africanism immortal organizers.
They were followed by J.T. Jabavu and others, (born in
Azania/South Africa, who founded the African National
Congress of South Africa); Joseph Casely Hayford, (born in
Ghana, who founded the National Congress of British West
Africa); and Jose de Magalahaes, (born in Brazil, who founded
the Liga Africana to represent the Africans living in Portugal
and the Portuguese colonies of Africa and South America.)
There were countless others, far too numerous to
mention.
From the First Pan-African Conference which was held in
England in 1900, through the Sixth Pan-African Conference in
1974 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; we have been trying to
better coordinate the world-wide Pan-African Movement.
The 5th Pan-African Conference which was held in 1945 in
Manchester, England, and was Co- chaired by Kwame
Nkrumah and W.E.B. DuBois, represented a qualitative
transformation in the African Revolution. This Conference
clearly and uncompromisingly outlined the necessity for a mass
character to the African Revolution, and called for the
revolutionary political education and organization of the
masses of African People.
This process gained intensity with the organization of the
Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) in 1947, under the
leadership of the great Ahmed Seku Ture; and of the
Convention People's Party (CPP) in 1949, under the
leadership of Osagefyo Kwame Nkrumah. Numerous other
Parties such as the Tanzanian African National Union (TANU),
(now called Chama Cha Mapinduzi); under the leadership of
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, sprouted up everywhere.
In a short 12 years since the 5th Pan-African Conference, the
objective and subjective conditions had ripened making it
possible to firmly and irrevocably root the Pan-African
Movement in Africa, on the continent of Africa for the first
time; and to create for the first time a genuine, mass,
revolutionary, African, political organizations. Mass
Parties and mass Movements spread to every corner of Africa
and the African Diaspora, intensifying the mass struggles for
democratic and human rights and national liberation.
Three major water-shed events occurred in 1957 and 1958, the
attainment of independence of Ghana, then Guinea and the
convening of the first All-African Peoples Conference in
Ghana, signaling the maturation of this phase of the African
Revolution. The struggle for democratic and human rights, for
national liberation and unification, and for scientific
socialism; took on a continental, and even world-wide
(wherever African People have been dispersed) scale.
From the First Pan-African Conference through the Sixth Pan-
African Conference which was held in 1974 in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania; African revolutionaries have come, through
experience, to properly understand that Africa can only be fully
liberated and unified through mass, revolutionary political
action.
Today, the task of Pan-Africanism is to build a mass Party
which will include the fusion of already existing revolutionary
Parties. Africa can only be fully liberated and unified through
mass, revolutionary action.
It is this task which the All-African People's Revolutionary
Party (A-APRP) voluntarily and enthusiastically has chosen to
undertake.
THE STRUGGLE TO BUILD THE A-APRP!
In 1966 Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah's book entitled THE
HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE, called
for the "formation of the A-APRP to co-coordinate policies and
to direct action... A political Party linking all liberated
territories and struggling Parties under a common ideology;
and thus smoothing the way for continental unity...While at the
same time greatly assisting the prosecution of the All-African
People's War" (pg 56-57)
Kwame Nkrumah's HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY
WARFARE further provided the Pan-African Movement with
an analytical and strategic framework which enabled a new
generation of African youth to accelerate a world wide
effort to lay the foundation for the emergence of the All-
African Peoples Revolutionary Party.
A small Cadre of African youth born and living in Africa, the
U.S., the Caribbean, Canada and Europe immediately began to
work, propagandizing about the necessity to build the All-
African People's Revolutionary Party.
Attempts to organize the first Work-Study Circle, the basic unit
of the A-APRP, were made in Guinea in early 1969, when
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was Co-President. This first
Work-Study Circle included Africans born in Ghana, Trinidad,
Gambia, Cameroon, Nigeria and elsewhere.
Since 1969, the A-APRP has recruited into its ranks Africans
born in over 72 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, North,
Central and South America and Europe. In addition, the
A-APRP has developed a strong world-wide base of supporters
and allies. This is testimony to the quantity and quality of work
done to build the A-APRP thus far, and speaks even more
eloquently to the future potential.
The A-APRP is a product of the relentless struggle within the
Pan-African Movement for ideological clarity, scientific and
precise objectives and revolutionary, mass, Pan African,
political organization.
The A-APRP represents a quantitative and qualitative
development in our long history of struggle against class
exploitation and national oppression in all its various
manifestations and forms, including centuries of enslavement,
dispersion, depersonalization, balkanization, and domination of
Africa.
The A-APRP emerges from and heralds an intensification of
the African and larger world-wide struggle for democratic
rights, for national independence and unity and for scientific
socialism. At the same time, it uncompromisingly and
unceasingly fights for the inevitable destruction of capitalism,
imperialism, settler-colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism,
exploitation of women, zionism, and all unjust systems.
The A-APRP knows that "the core of the Black (African)
Revolution is in Africa and until Africa is united under a
socialist government, the Black man (African) throughout the
world lacks a national home. (Accordingly) the
total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African
socialist government must be the primary objective of all Black
(African) Revolutionaries throughout the world.
"It is an objective, which when achieved will bring about the
fulfillment of the aspirations of African and people of African
descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance
the triumph of the international socialist Revolution," Kwame
Nkrumah, THE HANDBOOK OF REVOLUTIONARY
WARFARE, page 88.
NKRUMAHISM: THE CORRECT IDEOLOGY OF THE
AFRICAN REVOLUTION!
"Ideological training, revolutionary ideology is the modern
weapon used by the oppressed Peoples to overcome their
insufficiencies, to meet the challenge of the power of
exploitation. Revolutionary ideology is the infallible arm that
reveals and develops the people's genius. All revolutionary
Parties agree on this" Ahmed Seku Ture, STRATEGY
AND TACTICS OF THE REVOLUTION.
On the question of organization, it is in the arena of ideological
consciousness, that African People are most lacking. Ideology
has fundamental principles, including its own belief about the
nature of man and woman, and about the type of society which
must be created. It is these fundamental principles which help
in designing and controlling the type of organization found in
the society. "The same principles give rise to a network of
purposes which fix what compromises are possible or not
possible", Kwame Nkrumah, CONSCIENCISM, page 57.
An ideology therefore seeks to unite the whole of society and
seeks to channel the energies of the society to predetermined
goals. Thus "the ideology of the society is total. It embraces the
whole of life of a People and manifests itself in their class-
structure, their history, literature, art, religion", Nkrumah,
CONSCIENCISM, page 59.
Every society has an ideology, whether the members of that
society are conscious or unconscious of it. Ideology comes
from culture! Ahmed Seku Ture has correctly explained, that
"by culture, we understand all the material and immaterial
works of art and science, plus knowledge, manners, education,
a mode of thought, behavior and attitudes, accumulated by the
People both from the hold and domination of nature; we also
include the result of their efforts to destroy deviationist politics,
social systems of domination and exploitation through the
productive process of social life". (Taken from Seku Ture's
DIALECTICAL APPROACH TO CULTURE.)
Every People therefore have a culture, enjoying both the
universal aspects common to all cultures and their own
particularity. Every People also have their own correct
ideology. In order for the People to make a continuous
contribution to their sacred struggle, all of the People must be
consciously aware of this ideology.

The Africa which the A-APRP is struggling to help reconstruct
is a revolutionary society, a classless society which contains a
new harmony, a new cohesiveness and a new revolutionary
African personality which upholds the positive aspects of our
traditional African way of life, retaining them as the
foundation, and yet incorporating the positive aspects of
Islamic and Euro-Christian intrusions.
A new, emergent, revolutionary ideology is therefore required
to achieve this task. That ideology is Nkrumahism.
Nkrumahism is the correct and scientific ideology for the
African Revolution. It takes its name from the consistent,
Revolutionary, socialist, Pan-African principles, practice
and policies followed, implemented and taught by Kwame
Nkrumah; one of the foremost exponents and practioners of the
scientific strategy to liberate and unify Africa under scientific
socialism. These principles are recorded in his speeches,
writings actions, achievements and life.
Nkrumahism synthesizes the revolutionary contributions of all
the great Africans such as Garvey, Ahmed Seku Ture, Kwame
Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X, and countless other
sons and daughters of Africa.
In a larger, more full and complete sense; Nkrumahism is the
dialectical synthesis of the accumulated practical and
theoretical contributions and achievements of centuries
and generations of revolutionary, Pan-African and larger
socialist struggles.
Nkrumahism is the dialectical application of the universal laws
of revolutionary growth and development to the particular
conditions of Africa and Her Children, scattered all over
the world. Its concrete, living manifestation is to be found in
the creative contributions of the present day African
Revolution.
Nkrumahism provides the masses of African People with a set
of uncompromising principles, a scientific, revolutionary view
of Africa and the world, a scientific methodology and a set of
analytical tools which enable the masses of African People to
correctly interpret, understand and change the African
historical experience, and redeem and reconstruct the African
Personality.
It provides the masses of African People with a social,
political, philosophical and economic theory which constitutes
a complete network of principles, beliefs, values, morals
and rules which guide our behavior, determine the form which
our institutions and organizations will take, and acts as a
cohesive force which binds us together, guides and directs our
revolutionary action and channels it toward the achievement of
Pan-Africanism and the inevitable triumph of socialism, world-
wide.
Some of the principles of Nkrumahism include:
1) THE PRIMACY OF AFRICA - The full understanding that
the struggle for a unified, socialist Africa must be the primary
aspect of our lives.
2) THE REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN PERSONALITY -
which produces Africans who at all times and under all
conditions, struggle to insure that the interests of all of the
masses of our People reign supreme over the interests
of any individual, groups, class or part of Africa; which
produces men and women who are honest, dedicated and
willing to suffer and sacrifice in service to Mother Africa and
world humanity.
3) COLLECTIVISM - the philosophical and practical
understanding that the groups is responsible for the individual,
and that the individual is in turn, responsible to the group, that
they are dialectically linked; with the interests of the group
supreme, and the understanding that individual development
proceeds from the group and must in turn contribute to the
welfare of the group.
4) DIALECTICAL AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM -
which constitute a science that enables us to analyze the
permanent and irreversible changes that nature, the world,
human life and society undergo. The most notable of
these changes are those changes which occur when the masses
of oppressed People take their destiny into their hands and
through revolution, bring fundamental and positive changes to
society and to their lives. Revolutions occur and succeed
because of the qualitative and quantitative changes that
occur in the thinking and action of conscious men and women.
5) SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM - which implies common
ownership of the means of production, distribution and
exchange; production for use and not for profit, planned
methods of production by the state, based on modern
industry and agriculture; political power in the hands of the
People with the entire body of Workers possessing the
necessary governmental machinery through which to
express their needs and aspirations.
It is a concept in keeping with the humanist and egalitarian
spirit which characterized traditional African society, though it
must be applied in the modern context. All are Workers and no
person exploits another. Application of scientific methods in
all spheres of thought and production.
6) RELIGION AND REVOLUTION - both of which properly
uphold the interest of humanity, the nation and the laboring
masses. Truly religious tenets uphold the principles of
equality, humanism, egalitarianism, and all of the connotations
of socialist political and economic justice. A truly religious
person therefore must be a truly socialist person in practice,
since God is always for justice and actively fighting against
injustice.
Revolution must respect religion and safeguard the religion's
integrity and the right of the People to worship in the manner
in which they believe. Someone who is not religious, but who
renders revolutionary service to the People, will encounter no
conflict with truly religious People.
7) THE NECESSITY FOR MASS, REVOLUTIONARY
POLITICAL EDUCATION, ORGANIZATION AND
ACTION
- the masses of the People are the only makers of history. In
order to liberate themselves, the People need a mass,
revolutionary political Party which can help them politically
educate and organize themselves and galvanize their Positive
Action.
THE ROLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
INTELLIGENTSIA
Nkrumah properly analyzed that all of Africa, especially "the
countryside is the bastion of the revolution. It is the
revolutionary battlefield in which the peasantry in alliance
with their natural class allies-proletariat and revolutionary
intelligentsia-are the driving force for socialist construction and
transformation". Nkrumah, CLASS STRUGGLE IN AFRICA,
page 79.
The paramount need of our struggle at this juncture is the
political education of the masses of our People in order to
make them conscious of their responsibility. It is the
revolutionary intelligentsia who possess the skills necessary for
the rapid fulfillment of this task.
Thus, in the current stage of Party building activities, the
primary focus of the A-APRP's political education, recruitment
and organizing activities is the revolutionary intelligentsia,
especially college students.
The A-APRP wants to make it clear, at this stage, any African
can and is encouraged to join the A-APRP. Our immediate task
however, is to organize A-APRP Work-Study Circles on
every college campus in the African world; thereby creating
the initial cadre base which can politically educate and
organize the masses of oppressed Africans world-wide.
THE PROGRAM OF THE A-APRP!
The only program of the A-APRP is: BUILD THE PARTY!
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah informs us that "Organization
decides everything."
Some of the Party activities and work includes:
- internal and external mass political activities.
- organizing and recruiting African students in order for them
to serve their proper role as the "shock troops", the "spark" of
the African Revolution.
- struggling to build an African United Front in the U.S.,
England and France.
- struggling to build a Coalition to Smash Zionism, and support
the Palestinian people.
- struggling to build a Coalition to Smash the FBI-CIA and
other imperialist intelligence agencies.
- institutionalizing African Liberation Day, etc.
If you are really tired of the suffering of our People, who are
scattered and struggling in every corner of the world, and you
really want to help bring about a positive change in their lives;
then you must scientifically give time to our People's sacred
struggle.
We do it for capitalism, for school, for our clubs, for our
church, mosque or temple; for recreation. We give of our
energy, our time and our commitment for these and other
activities we hold dear. We must give out time and energies to
political organizations seeking to advance us.
We encourage everyone reading this pamphlet to join any
political organization seeking to advance humanity. We urge
you to join a revolutionary political Party working for
Pan-Africanism: the only solution to all of the problems our
People face in every corner of the world.
WE URGE YOU TO JOIN AND HELP BUILD THE
ALL-AFRICAN PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY!