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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN

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Welcome to African Development Plan

Welcome to African Development PlanWelcome to African Development Plan

 See the Vision and Answer the Call!


Contact  Cecile Johnson at AfricanDevelopmentPlan@gmail.com

My Ancestors are Calling me

The Birth of African Development Plan

  

My Ancestors are calling me

They are asking me to remember them not only in good times but in bad times. Not only in festivities but in reflection.


My Ancestors are calling me

They are asking me to remember what they went through so that I could be born.

All that they suffered, lost homeland, lost family, lost language, loss of culture as they were captured, sold into slavery, chained to each other as they made it through the middle passage. Raped, whipped, lynched, physically abused, colonized, Jim Crowed, water hosed and dogs set upon as they fought for their civil rights.


My Ancestors are calling me.

They ask me if I have no mercy?

Do I not see the plight of Africa?

Do I not see the connection I have to all of her children scattered around the world?

They are calling me to remember the 11 million brought to the Americas. 

Our blood, sweat and tears built the wealth that formed these new nations.

Wealth squandered, used to oppress us, and so till today, still denies so many of our people a decent life.


My Ancestors are calling me.

They ask me why do you tolerate this?

Tolerate this I ask?

Yes, You tolerate your own genocide.

How I ask?

Because you do nothing to solve the long term ramifications of our collective history. You watch as western institutions speak big words but do little to help change the future of Africa. Where western institutions are imposed and in conflict with an African way of life.

You watch as "leaders" "puppets" "murderers" in Africa and around the world, steal the people's wealth and squander it on foolish things. Where poverty is rampant and the majority strive to survive on less than a $1 a day.

A Continent with the richest resources reduced to the poorest countries in the world.  Where people starve for lack of food, water, sanitation and health care.

Africa, where 1 in 13 mothers die in childbirth, where so many children never see the age of 5.  A continent which by 2015 will be the only region where the number of poor people will be higher than it was in 1990. And Africa will then account for half of the poor in the developing world.

Do our children not deserve an education?

Do our children not deserve peace?

Do our children not deserve a future that is brighter than the one you are now creating for them?

Why have you not helped?

You have the mind, you have the resources, you must now have the will.

I HEARD MY ANCESTORS CALLING ME AND I ANSWERED WITH THIS CALL.


By Cecile Johnson  2009 (c)

The Vision and mission

The African Development Plan is a CALL TO ACTION to all African Descendant People worldwide to unite and take pride in our African identity. To begin to study our collective history, assess our communities’ assets, resources and needs and focus our attention and skills in creating and implementing Sustainable Solutions that meet Africa and her Diaspora’s numerous challenges.  Taking an African Centered approach to Education and Leadership Development and creating the Next Generation of Leaders who will put African people's interest first.
 

GET INVOLVED

African Development Plan is about improving the lives of the Global African Community, as such our work is local in every place that we may live. 


THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE USA


Many do not understand the struggles that African descendants people living in the USA experience on a daily basis.  Recent news about police killings is nothing new and is but the tip  of the iceberg when it comes to the genocide the Black population is facing in so many areas of our lives from life expectancy, health, education, housing, lack of economic wealth and public safety etc.  


Why should we have to warn our children everyday just to keep them alive.  Why can't a Black person stop at a white persons door to seek assistance, without being shot at? 


We are living in a very racist and hostile environment and it is affecting our health and long term sustainability. 


AS SUCH THIS WEBSITE WILL ALSO FOCUS ON THE PARADIGM SHIFT THAT IS NEEDED AS WE MOVE FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND OUR PATH TO SELF DETERMINATION FOR THE AFRICAN DESCENDANT IN THE USA.  We will no longer tolerate the genocide against our people. We must now move beyond Civil Rights which have failed to protect us and take our case to the United Nation and Inter-American Court, as we have exhausted domestic remedies. 


SEE BELOW for book on subject.


THE AFRICAN CONTINENT


And we will simultaneously highlight the work of Africans on the continent as they too were mislead and ill prepared for their so called independence. And the little progress made for the masses of the people after over 50+ years of independence on the continent must be addressed and the Western nations and now China role in this must be analyzed and dealt with. 


There must be accountability for why the continent with the richest resources has the poorest people. Africa's leaders must be held accountable and given the support they need to lead. 


Fresh leadership is needed and much more input from the youth who are the majority on the continent.  They must be developed to meet Africa's needs in the 21st Century. 



 Africa's Vision 2063 and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Action Plans lay out a vision for Africa which requires African people with the expertise to design and implement sustainable solutions. Many African living in the Diaspora are highly skilled; but underutilized.  What if they could be encouraged to return home where their talent could be utilized to address the needs of our communities there. HOW GOOD THAT WOULD BE. 


It is a time for all African people no matter where you are to understand WE ARE ONE PEOPLE.  We are in CRISIS and we demand CHANGE.   Now we must become the change we wish to see in the world. 


Will you join us?

WHAT WE DO

African Development Plan provides "Connect the Dots" Research and Data presentations as a Subject Matter Expert on issues impacting African descendants in the USA, the Diaspora and on the African Continent from an African Centered Perspective utilizing International Standards and a Human Rights framework.


African Development Plan believes in teamwork and collaboration and accomplishes its goals through a group of partners who are experts in their own fields. 


OUR PROGRAMS in 2022 will include:

  • African Centered  Leadership Development 
  • Entrepreneurship Training
  • Agriculture/ Farming Projects in the USA /Diaspora /Africa to create Next Generation Black Farmers and Agripreneurs.
  • African Centered Curriculum
  • Stakeholder Engagement






THE CONTINENT: implementation of a 50 year Plan

Cecile Presentations

    UPDATE ON CHICAGO's REPARATION COMMISSION VOTE

    Read here

     

    It would “signal a new page in the history between this city and its Black citizens,” said Kamm Howard, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks For Reparations in America.

    Howard said racism against Chicago’s Black community began when Jean Baptiste DuSable was “run out of the city he founded by racist whites and the emergent system of white supremacy.”

    A “reparations triage,” using the “limited resources” of the city would need to be directed to five pillars of reparations work recognized under international law, Howard said.

    • Cessation that guarantees a non-repetition, including an end of “police terrorism” and the creation of civilian oversight of the police department.
    • Restitution, including business development, wealth building and housing initiatives.
    • Compensation, in the form of tuition waivers and business and housing grants.
    • Satisfaction, by repairing the dignity of people descended from slavery through cultural institutions, curriculum changes and apologies.
    • Rehabilitation, which COVID-19 has highlighted, is the need for research in to the “transgenerational genetic injury” and transmission of trauma caused by enslavement and centuries of inequity.

    June 5, 2020

    The vote was Yes today for the Chicago Reparations Commission before the Health and Human Relations Sub-Committee! 

    As typical Chicago Politics goes NCOBRA asked for a Reparations Commission and gets a "Committee".

    Why does Mayor Lori Lightfoot not support repairing the harm done to the African Americans in Chicago? REPARATIONS NOW!

     

    UNDERSTANDING THE REPARATIONS ISSUE IN CHICAGO

    Check out this great video which gives you a good understanding of the REPARATIONS issue in Chicago

    What it would take to REPAIR african dEscEndants in chicago- Reparations

      2-18-2020 Chicago Reparation Forum # 4

      The State of Black People in Chicago- testimony by Cecile Johnson on the harm done to Black people in Chicago because of racism, lack of access and a deliberate disinvestment in the Black Community. 

      The Case for reparations: a Human Rights Approach

      12-09-2019 Presentation in Spartansburg  SC. 


      Speakers include:

      Cecile Johnson, Afro-Descendant Nation Confederation

      Vicki Casanova- Willis, Human Rights 

      Kamm Howard, NCOBRA

      Elaina Porter, Afro-Descendant Nation Confederation

      sign up to JOIN THE AFRICAN DESCENDANT NATION

      12-16-2005 60-147 UN RESOLUTION on Right to a remedy and reparations (pdf)Download
      AFRICAN DESCENDANTS DECLARATION OF SELF DETERMINATION (pdf)Download
      ACTION NEEDED- Declared Consent for Self-Determination and Request for Decolonization 2020 (pdf)Download

      US owes repartions to its Black population

       

      United Nations panel says U.S. owes reparations for slavery, mass incarceration

      Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France, chairwoman of a United Nations working group for people of African descent, reads findings about institutionalized racism after an official visit to the U.S. in 2016. 


      We need the world to help us hold the US accountable for the Human Rights violations against it African Descendant population.

      MUST READ

      PT 1- An Introduction To Self Determination - Elaina POrter

      Check out this great video


      This is a 3 part series entitled BUILDING POWER THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SELF DETERMINATION AND REPARATIONS .

      AIHR Part 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO SELF DETERMINATION AND DECOLONIZATION by Elaina Porter

      PT 2 -AIHR Part 2 STEPS TO BUILDING A NATION Cecile Johnson

      Check out this great video


      This is a 3 part series entitled BUILDING POWER THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SELF DETERMINATION AND REPARATIONS. 


      Our Presentation at the BLACK MENS CONVENTION On 4/22/18

       

      AIHR Part 2 STEPS TO BUILDING A NATION Cecile Johnson

      Pt 3- AIHR Building a Confederated State- Dr Mustafa Ansari

      Check out this great video

       

      This is a 3 part series entitled 


      BUILDING POWER THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SELF DETERMINATION AND REPARATIONS. 


      Our Presentation at the BLACK MENS CONVENTION On 4/22/18

       
      AIHR Part 3 BUILDING A CONFEDERATED NATION STATE Dr Mustafa Ansari 

      African Development Plan's Blog


      In this Blog I will focus on our current projects  that address Human Rights and our a path to Self Determination for the African Descendant population in the United States of America. 

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