Imani Na Umoja | African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau)
PAIGC Presentation to the Pan Africanism Summit Against Imperialism (PASAI)
Nairobi, Kenya May 2026
By Brother & Comrade Imani Na Umoja, Member of the PAIGC Politburo of the Central Committee and its National Secretariat, Director of the PAIGC Amílcar Cabral Political Ideological Training School; Central Committee of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP); West Africa People’s Organization (WAPO) Coordination Council Member; Member of the Steering Committee of Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) U.S. out of Africa Network (USOAN).
Introduction
Revolutionary Greetings and Salutes!
We sincerely thank the organisations supporting this Counter-Summit, all the organizers of this historic gathering of revolutionary Pan-Africanists and Anti-imperialists. We salute the revolutionary parties, workers’ organisations, peasant movements, youth formations, women’s struggles, environmental justice movements, and anti-imperialist forces from across Africa and the world, gathered in Nairobi under the banner of the Pan Africanism Summit Against Imperialism (PASAI).
The only way that we can pay you back is by taking the Declaration and resolutions and putting them into practice among our People at all levels, but especially at the Base where our People live and struggle in the villages, cities and communities.
We reiterate our Solidarity with Brother and Comrade Booker Omole, Secretary-General of the Communist Party Marxist–Kenya and all comrades who have been and continue to be persecuted by the neo-colonial regime installed in Kenya! We gather in Kenya to say that if you touch our comrades, you touch us!
We do not speak for governments. We do not speak for elites. We do not speak for the imperialists and their neo-colonial collaborators. We speak for the oppressed. We speak for the exploited. We speak for the struggling masses of Africa and the world. THE NEO-COLONIAL FRENCH AFRICAN SUMMIT IS ATTEMPTED RECOLONISATION IN MOTION. We vow to stop this attempted recolonisation by organizing at all levels from the Base to the intermediate, central and international levels, but with emphasis on the Bases!
Under the mask of climate diplomacy, financial reform, and development partnership, imperialism advances control over African land, labour, and resources.
We cannot sit idle as the neo-colonial regime imposed upon Kenya hosts French imperialists; the enemies who have invaded our Continent and other parts of our world. The ones who have killed our People in the thousands, who enslave our People, plunder our resources and cause misery. The plunderers of Mali, the murderers of the Malian Defence Minister, now head to Nairobi; to do what? To deepen death and plunder?! French imperialists are scavengers! They must and will be destroyed!
They consider Kenya as a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA), the first in Sub-Saharan Africa, and France being a founding member of NATO.
NATO will be destroyed!
PAIGC Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Mass Party Guided by Amílcar Cabral Thought Is a Socialist Party
The African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the revolutionary Pan-Africanist Mass Party guided by Amílcar Cabral Thought is a socialist Party that is honored to be together with you to learn from each other and intensify coordination.
We are more conscious than ever that mere shouting will not create the necessary tidal wave against imperialism. As our People say in their proverbs; “…Thunder is not afraid of wind.”
Shouting Insults Against Imperialism Will Not Defeat It
At the first Tricontinental Conference held in Cuba in January 1966―that brought together more than 260 Delegates from more than 70 revolutionary organizations of Africa, Asia and Latin America―our Immortal Brother and Comrade Amílcar Cabral, Secretary General of the PAIGC and speaking on behalf of CONCP (Conference of National Organizations in the Portuguese Colonies) said that; “the objective of national liberation, is to reclaim the right, usurped by imperialist domination, namely: the liberation of the process of development of national productive forces…”
“…We are not going to use this platform to rail against imperialism. An African saying very common in our country says: ‘When your house is burning, it’s no use beating the tom-toms.’ On a Tricontinental level, this means that we are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults against it. For us, the best or worst shout against imperialism, whatever its form, is to take up arms and fight. This is what we are doing, and this is what we will go on doing until all foreign domination of our African homelands has been totally eliminated…”
Amílcar Cabral reminds us that “…every practice produces a theory, and that if it is true that a revolution can fail even though it be based on perfectly conceived theories, nobody has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory…”
Africa Shall Not Be a Military Outpost!
We join our voice and actions with you as we together declare that AFRICA SHALL NOT BE A MILITARY OUTPOST! We reject the militarisation of Africa in all its forms! Foreign military bases, occupations, intelligence networks, and security arrangements serve imperialist domination. We reject the transformation of Kenya and the African continent into staging grounds for foreign troops bases, launch pads, proxy wars, and imperialist expansion. Africa shall not be a battlefield for imperialist rivalry! Africa shall not host its own oppression!
We reiterate that we have been, continue to be for REVOLUTIONARY PAN AFRICANISM! We reject so-called “Pan Africanism of elites” and their conferences that do not advance the interests and aspirations of the masses. We uphold revolutionary Pan Africanism! A Pan Africanism of workers and peasants. A Pan Africanism rooted in our culture, our struggle and guided by scientific socialism. African unity cannot be achieved under imperialism. It must be forged through struggle against it.
Our Revolutionary Party Is the Politically Organised Manifestation of Our People’s Culture
It’s not necessary to repeat the analysis on the intense changes in the struggle against imperialism in all its forms of neo-colonialism, zionism, neo-liberalism.
As our Eternal leader Amílcar Cabral reminds us, “..our challenge is to not merely shout against imperialism, but rather to struggle to defeat it…” Many of our organizations have taken up arms. In our case, it was a People’s War with armed militants led by a revolutionary Pan-Africanist Party that used the Liberated Zones as a nucleus of the new State; ideologically and politically training socialist new wo/men, while building socialism, giving concrete support to Angola, Palestine, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, et al.
In short, our revolutionary Party is the politically organised manifestation of our People’s culture.
We have been part of political coordination, sometimes more intensely and other times less. Our challenge is to transform the less to more and intensify our political coordination. Amílcar Cabral instructs us to “…struggle against our own weaknesses…Tell no lies, claim no easy victories, hide nothing from the People..”
Not Enough Political Coordination
While there is some political coordination, it is not enough. This conference provides a platform to increase it. As Cabral said at the 1st Tricontinental, “more than asking for weapons or materials, we should take advantage of our accumulated experiences to trace general lines of thought and action…”
We must intensify our outreach to other anti-imperialist organizations.
Coordinate and Share the Anti-Imperialist News Sources
One of the main weaknesses is the source of (mis)information on the part of millions by the imperialist zionist disinformation service. We must coordinate and share the anti-imperialist news sources, such as TeleSur TV, Cuba TV, Press TV, and reproduce and increase them and make them become the primary source of information for the Masses throughout the world.
Traitors
We have suffered from imperialists attacks that used their strongest weapon: traitors. We must root out traitors in Africa, including here in Kenya!
Coordinate Our Ideological Training Processes
We must coordinate our ideological training processes without dogma, and have systematic political ideological exchanges.
Amílcar Cabral reminds us that; “…People are sacrificing for better schools, access to health care, better lives and not of ideas in other people’s heads…” This doesn’t mean that we minimize ideological struggle. Practice has shown us that like Karl Marx said; “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it…”
Serve as Examples of Complete Human Beings
We must serve as examples of complete human beings, in the way that Amílcar Cabral described Vladimir Lenin; “…a complete human being, he knew how to love and hate. Love the cause of man’s liberation from any kind of oppression, the wonderful adventure that is human life, everything that is beautiful and constructive on the planet. Hating the enemies of man’s progress and happiness, the class enemy, the opportunists, cowardice, lies, all the factors that debase man’s social and moral conscience…” … an example of fidelity to principles. He knew how to make concessions on the form of demands, of axés, but never on principles.”
“..Lenin always demonstrated unlimited confidence in the abilities of the masses…any liberation movement needs a strategy….”
“..When developing this strategy it is necessary to be able to distinguish the essential from the secondary, the permanent from the temporary. Without ever confusing strategy and tactics, action must be based on a scientific conception of reality, regardless of the influence of subjective factors that must be faced….”
“..Also on this level Lenin gave a very useful lesson to the liberation movements, to the freedom fighters. He was clearly aware of the value of unity as a necessary means of struggle, but not as an end in itself….”
“..On the other hand, Lenin was deeply aware of the need to know as best as possible, in the fight, the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy, as well as our own strengths and weaknesses. The Leninist conception of strategy implies that we must act to increase the enemy’s weaknesses and transform his strengths into weaknesses and, simultaneously, preserve and reinforce our strengths and eliminate our weaknesses or transform them into strengths. This is possible through the permanent and dynamic alliance between theory and practice….”
As we close, we rededicate ourselves to struggle to strengthen coordination among anti-imperialist organizations, organise sustained mass mobilisation against foreign military presence and imperialist control; advance struggles for climate justice rooted in the People and reject market based mechanisms for resolving the crisis; deepen political education and revolutionary consciousness among the masses; build concrete campaigns linking local struggles to global anti imperialist and resist neo-colonialism and all the neocolonial class collaborators who enrich themselves on the poverty of the working class and impede our struggle for national sovereignty and the final victory over imperialist domination.
Comrades, let us go forward onward to victory as complete human beings!
Everywhere there is an agent of imperialism, zionism or neo-colonialism, let us go forward with tidal waves to crush them!
Peoples of the world: unite against imperialism!
Defeat for the French and all imperialists’ alliances!
Defeat for the neo-colonialists!
Victory to the resistance!
No cooperation with imperialism in any of its forms!
A luta continua!
Victoria é Certa
Onward to Final Victory!
READY FOR THE REVOLUTION!
