I am issuing out this statement to all Africans and friends of Africa in the global community, to formally confirm my acceptance of the position of Chairperson for the Pan African Reconstruction and Development Aid Fund (PARDAF), which came into existence on Saturday 8th November, 2025 in Lagos State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am deeply honoured and humbled by the trust and confidence Africans have placed in me to lead this vital project for the good of our beloved mother continent.
It is an honour to serve the African continent in this capacity and any future capacity, to foster reconstruction and sustainable development in post neo-colonial Africa. I fully understand and will strive to prudently and carefully try to balance the need to garner both local and international support for African countries that have decided to break away from the yoke of neo-colonialism in all forms and manifestations. In the discharge of the duties and responsibilities associated with this position, I will do everything God-willing to accompany the project to achieve its target goals.
My priority now is to constitute a powerhouse team of patriotic Africans to push for the success of this project. I will start by identifying and building relationships with donors who are interested in helping the reconstruction and construction of Africa after more than six decades of neo-colonial manipulation, destruction and devastation, and self-betrayal. I am committed also to working diligently with my team to achieve strategic objectives and contribute to the socio-economic development of Africa.
The sovereignty of the African continent has been overtly and covertly transformed into a slaughter house and a region for foreign economic and financial adventurism. Through its post-independence period, Africa has suffered brutal environmental injustice, degrading conflict that gave rise to hatreds and division; making peace and stability a pipedream; while using the media tools to create distrust amongst neighbours and endless blame games. The result has been the unstopped violence, proxy wars and terrorism, degradation and dehumanisation. This must change and Africa must arise with or without former slave lords, former colonial masters, imperialist powers or the Deep State.
Africa is a continent richly blessed with natural resources ranging from every mineral imaginable to vast tracts of fertile and arable land, water, flora and fauna not found anywhere else. Despite the immense wealth and possession of vast mineral deposits, the countries on the continent remain deplete by brutal poverty, economic doldrums, social paralysis, cultural depletion, unlimited social vices and degeneracy, where the mass of the population lives in rural areas and dependent on agriculture, while facing severe challenges like lack of clean water, food, and infrastructure.
The continent is dependent on foreign aid, which robs it of its independent sovereignty and dignity. This is contrary to the suffering and misery created by climate change, and environmental degradation due to ill-conceived economic activities in the mineral, forests and water areas, inequality in the urban slums and isolation of the rural communities.
Africa does not need the very architects of its current predicaments as middlemen to garner real development partners to the continent. What we need, and are trying to do is to mobilise the continent’s sons, daughters and not the children of former slave lords, former colonial oppressors, war-mongering imperialists, neo-colonial aggressors or the Deep State to determine Africa’s future direction.
Africa continues to be labelled with derogatory phrases like-the Wretched of the Earth; the Whiteman’s Graveyard; or the Dark Continent-to define its traitorous leadership and backwardness. The idea of the Pan African Reconstruction and Development Aid Fund (PARDAF), is the first of its kind to emerge from Africa to grasp the reality of the changes taking place in the continent. The idea is a wakeup call for Africa to identify its own path, bury old wounds and prepare the future for succeeding generations of African peoples. PARDAF’s mission is to provide the platform to bring together real development partners, donors and good investors to share views and ideas with leaders and other stakeholders in the continent.
There have been lots of post-world war holocaust fund raising projects to rehabilitate the Jews race after the Nazis criminal war in Europe. There are also post wars or conflicts fund raising activities for Africa, ostensibly to aid the reconstruction of war affected territories, lands and communities in the continent. Unfortunately, those campaigns were not held on the ground in Africa, but on foreign lands and spearheaded by the very people that are behind the underdevelopment and backwardness in Africa. Which country in Africa has seen reconstruction in the post-war era? Where are the billions collected from those campaigns gone? Where are the infrastructures on the ground, for sustaining the environment, where we all live together as human beings?
There has never been for instance, a time when a programme for post-slavery, or post-colonial or post-neo-colonial reconstruction of Africa ever launched anywhere in the world. The idea of PARDAF fits in here, to complement efforts by progressive African leaders, who have decided to do away with anything that is linked to neo-colonial agenda in the continent. The news of PARDAF coming into effect has been received across the continent with hope and enthusiasm.
PARDAF is not about making money in the name of Africa to line individual pockets or to obtain power or to ridicule anyone whose thinking is at variance with the goals of Pan-Africanism. On the contrary, PARDAF exists to aid socio-economic development in Africa, by encouraging real donors and other stakeholders to support the reconstruction of the continent in a post neo-colonial era. To PARDAF, breaking away from the yoke of neo-colonialism means African governments ready to achieve genuine economic and political sovereignty by dismantling the structures that maintain the control and dependency syndrome imposed on African governments and leaders by outsiders.
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all our African brothers and sisters from across the continent, who mooted out this idea of the African virtual project-PARDAF. I also want to acknowledge the progress that is taking place in the Sahel region, Madagascar and other progressive countries in the continent that are determined to reinvent the destiny of Africa, for all Africans, both at home and abroad.
Right from the word go, I am committed to help create an environment that will help PARDAF project achieve stated goals, by working closely with all stakeholders, including government institutions, the private sector, and international partners, donors and business community. My vision is to ensure that the reconstruction of Africa in a post neocolonial era becomes not only achievable, but also inclusive and sustainable.
And finally, I want to take this opportunity to call on all African countries that are at war against each other, either for power grabbing, tribal superiority or regional domination to start a process of reconciliation, peaceful and comprehensive political settlement. I call on all foreign terrorist groups to stop their heinous and genocide campaign against poor Africans in the Sahel region, Nigeria, Libya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Mozambique. The activities of these proxy terrorist groups are condemnable and undermine humanity.
Again, I thank all our African brothers and sisters for entrusting me the power to lead the reconstruction and development advocacy movement in a post neo-colonial Africa. I look forward to doing a noble service to the African continent.
Long live Africa!
Sender:
ALimamy Bakarr Sankoh
Email contacts: absankoh@gmail.com
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