Feb 11, 2026 · 42 min · 6 segments
What does it mean to be an activist today — and who gets to claim that title? In this episode of Power, People & Planet, Kumi Naidoo is joined by Hardi Yakubu, Coordinator of Africans Rising for…
Kumi NaidooHosta unique movement that was started to be a rallying point for African, Pan-African solidarity against the background that We cannot be in Africa and whenever anything happens anywhere in the continent, the people who respond to that crisis are largely either Europeans or Americans or whatever, like outsiders, let's just put it that way, external people.
We have to have a mechanism by which Africans can respond to African issues Kwame Nkrumah said we must find African solutions to African problems and then also regarding the idea that you know when we talk about I think at that time there was that narrative of Africa rising, Africa rising, you know, basically
which was based basically on GDP, economic growth, and, you know, so the analysis around that, you know in terms of okay when you say africa is rising and you're maniastic for saying that it's just gdp growth high economy you know i think six out of ten countries the highest growing economies in the world were in africa but then the interrogation of that narrative um was necessary because i mean like when you ask the question who is who owns and controls the livers or the drivers of the group because the drivers of the group were mainly commodities oil gold diamond oxide so who owns and controls basically not africans it is a european company multinational companies american multinational companies and lately even asian multinational companies so it is erroneous to say that africa is rising based on this drastic alone rather let us put emphasis on the people africans rather than the geography africa because the things are extracted here but the people themselves are not benefiting from it so this is the the idea that africans and all now and then We have to continue correcting people.
of people, organizations, you know, African peoples, both in the continent and the diaspora, which is mobilizing and organizing people for unity, justice, peace and dignity.
The Africans Rising is founded based on the vision expressed in the Kilimanjaro Declaration.
uh meant to ensure that we have we built the africa that we want for ourselves so as a movement we our emphasis is on membership people so uh one of the things that has changed a lot from 2017 is that the membership has grown from 271 to, as of the end of 2014, over 40,000 members.
a unique movement that was started to be a rallying point for African, Pan-African solidarity against the background that We cannot be in Africa and whenever anything happens anywhere in the continent, the people who respond to that crisis are largely either Europeans or Americans or whatever, like outsiders, let's just put it that way, external people.
We have to have a mechanism by which Africans can respond to African issues Kwame Nkrumah said we must find African solutions to African problems and then also regarding the idea that you know when we talk about I think at that time there was that narrative of Africa rising, Africa rising, you know, basically
which was based basically on GDP, economic growth, and, you know, so the analysis around that, you know in terms of okay when you say africa is rising and you're maniastic for saying that it's just gdp growth high economy you know i think six out of ten countries the highest growing economies in the world were in africa but then the interrogation of that narrative um was necessary because i mean like when you ask the question who is who owns and controls the livers or the drivers of the group because the drivers of the group were mainly commodities oil gold diamond oxide so who owns and controls basically not africans it is a european company multinational companies american multinational companies and lately even asian multinational companies so it is erroneous to say that africa is rising based on this drastic alone rather let us put emphasis on the people africans rather than the geography africa because the things are extracted here but the people themselves are not benefiting from it so this is the the idea that africans and all now and then We have to continue correcting people.
of people, organizations, you know, African peoples, both in the continent and the diaspora, which is mobilizing and organizing people for unity, justice, peace and dignity.
The Africans Rising is founded based on the vision expressed in the Kilimanjaro Declaration.
uh meant to ensure that we have we built the africa that we want for ourselves so as a movement we our emphasis is on membership people so uh one of the things that has changed a lot from 2017 is that the membership has grown from 271 to, as of the end of 2014, over 40,000 members.
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