VIENNA DECLARATION AND PLAN OF ACTION OF AFRICANS AND AFRICAN DESCENDANTS

April 28 - April 29, 2001

PREAMBLE:

Africans and African descendants share a common historical and cultural heritage. The richness of African history has been distorted, and the African cultural identity ridiculed by many. As people of Africa we want to revive the presentation of African history and promote pride in our African identity, as well as celebrating the diversity of our peoples. Africans and African descendants also share the common history of slave trade, slavery, and colonization, and a common experience of anti-Black racism. We recognize that people of African descent live on all world continents, although they have been renamed, suppressed and marginalized. All over the world, Africans continue to be subjected to racism, discrimination and intolerance. It is the complexity of these common roots and experiences that bind us together as a community; and as a community we are committed to:

1) Having the world recognize and provide reparation for the Black Holocausts (Slavery and Colonization);

2) Eliminating anti-Black racism every where it occurs, in any part of the World; and

3) Restoring our motherland, Africa, to its full glory.