Republic of New Afrika 952962 217314255 2008-06-05T14:25:30Z El C 92203 /* Publications */ italics instead of bold; small font [[Image:Flag of the UNIA.svg|right|275px|thumb|The Republic of New Afrika flag is that first used by [[Marcus Garvey]].]] [[Image:RNA.PNG|275px|thumb|right|Proposed territory of the Republic of New Afrika within the [[United States]].]] [[Image:New 2000 black density.gif|thumb|275px|right|The proposed territory is where the highest population density of blacks are in the US (2000).]] The '''Republic of New Afrika''', (RNA) is a [[black nationalist]] community and political lobby group established in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], [[United States]] in March of 1968. It claims [[sovereignty]], but does not control its claimed territory. ==History== The original RNA manifesto demanded the cession by the [[United States]] of the Southern states of [[Louisiana]], [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], and [[South Carolina]] and the payment of [[United States dollar|$400 billion]] in [[Reparations for slavery|reparation]]s for the [[injustice]]s suffered by black Americans during the [[Slavery in Colonial America|slavery]] and segregation periods. These concessions would then form the basis of an independent black nation. The republic and Provisional Government was founded at a conference of militant black nationalists meeting in [[Detroit]] in 1968. The conference was convened by attorney [[Milton Henry]] and his brother [[Richard Henry|Richard]], former acquaintances of [[Malcolm X]] who had renamed themselves [[Gaidi Obadele]] and [[Imari Abubakari Obadele]]. [[Imari Obadele]] was elected to the position of "Provisional President". The group advocated cooperative economics and community self-sufficiency, but also supported limiting political rights and press freedoms, prohibiting [[trade union|trades unions]], [[conscription|mandatory military service]] and the legalization of [[polygamy]]. The US [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) believed the Republic of New Africa to be a [[Sedition|seditious]] group, and conducted raids on their meetings, leading to violent confrontations and the arrest and repeated imprisonment of RNA leaders. The group was a target of the [[COINTELPRO]] operation. Following his 1980 release from prison, Imari Obadele attended [[Temple University]] and earned a PhD in [[political science]]. He has since taught at various universities and published books and articles upholding the aims of the RNA. The RNA is today based in [[Washington, D.C.]], and claims a membership of almost 10,000. == Publications == <div class="references-small"> <div class="references-2columns"> * ''The Article Three Brief''. 1973. (New Afrikans fought U.S. Marshals in an effort to retain control of the independent New Afrikan communities shortly after the U.S. Civil War.) * Obadele, Imari Abubakari. ''Foundations of the Black Nation''. 154p. Detroit. House of Songay, 1975. * Brother Imari [Obadele, Imari]. ''War In America: The Malcolm X Doctrine''. 45p. Chicago. Ujamaa Distributors, 1977. * Kehinde, Muata. ''RNA President Imari Obadele is Free After Years of Illegal U.S. Imprisonment''. In ''Burning Spear'' February 1980. Louisville. African Peoples Socialist Party. 4 p to 28 p. * Obadele, Imari Abubakari. ''The Malcolm Generation & Other Stories''. 56p. Philiadelphia. House of Songhay, 1982. * Taifa, Nkechi, and Lumumba, Chokwe. ''Reparations Yes! 3rd ed.'' Baton Rouge. House of Songhay, 1983, 1987, 1993. * ''Free The Land!'' Washington, D.C. House of Songhay, 1984. * ''New Afrikan State-Building in North America''. Ann Arbor. Univ. of Michigan Microfilm, 1985, pp. 345-357. * "The First New Afrikan States". In ''The Black Collegian'', Jan./Feb. 1986. * ''A Beginner's Outline of the History of Afrikan People, 1st ed''. Washington, D.C. House of Songhay, Commission for Positive Education, 1987. * ''America The Nation-State''. Washington, D.C. and Baton Rouge. House of Songhay, Commission for Positive Education, 1989, 1988. * Walker, Kwaku, and Walker, Abena. ''Black Genius''. Baton Rouge. House of Songhay, Commission for Positive Education, 1991. * Afoh, Kwame, Lumumba, Chokwe, and Obafemi, Ahmed. ''A Brief History of the Black Struggle in America, With Obadele's Macro-Level Theory of Human Organization''. Baton Rouge. House of Songhay, Commission for Positive Education, 1991. * RNA. ''A People's Struggle''. RNA, Box 90604, Washington, D.C. 20090-0604. </div></div> ==See also== * [[Black Belt (U.S. region)]], social and demographic crescent of southern counties that contain higher than average percentages of African American residents * [[Queen Mother Moore]] ==External links== ===RNA links=== * * [http://www.webspawner.com/users/PDCLA/ People's District Council of Los Angeles] * [http://www.asetbooks.com/Us/Nationhood/RNA/RepublicOfNewAfrika.html The Republic of New Afrika] * [http://newafrikaonline.blogspot.com New Afrika (Online Blog)] ===Archives=== * [http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/themes/blkpower/ RNA documents] in the [http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/ Freedom Now!] archival project at [[Brown University]] - [[Tougaloo College]] archives. * [http://web.mac.com/christiandavenport/iWeb/Site%206/Out%20on%20the%20Inside.html Out on the Inside - Dissent and Repression in The Republic of New Africa vs. the United States, 1967-1974] documents on police surveillance and repression of the RNA at the [http://web.mac.com/christiandavenport/iWeb/Christian%20Davenport/The%20Radical%20Information%20Project%20%28RIP%29.html The Radical Information Project]. ===Articles and reports=== * [http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView.php?programID=146 Firing Line: The Republic of New Africa] [[William F. Buckley]] interviews Milton Henry. President of the Republic of New Africa. Program number 126. Taped on Nov 18, 1968 (New York City, NY). 50 minutes. Available from the [[Hoover Institution]]. The first 5 minutes are accessible in [http://vodreal.stanford.edu/firing/5min/126.ram '''streaming Real Audio''']. * [http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/davenport/jcr2005.pdf ''Understanding Covert Repressive Action: The Case of the US Government Against the Republic of New Africa''] by Christian Davenport, Professor, University of Maryland. * [http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=2899150 The Real Republic of New Africa] By Dennis Smith, News Director. February 3, 2005. Accessed April 1, 2005 [[Category:Independence movements]] [[Category:African American history]] [[Category:Proposed countries]] [[Category:COINTELPRO targets]] [[Category:1968 establishments]] [[es:República de Nueva África]] [[gl:República de Nova África]] [[it:Repubblica della Nuova Africa]] [[ja:新アフリカ共和国]]