On 11–12 May 2026, the Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism convened in Nairobi, Kenya, as a direct counter-summit to the France-Africa Summit. Where the France-Africa Summit has long functioned as a stage for French diplomatic management of the continent, the Nairobi counter-summit brought together pan-Africanist organisations, movements, and scholars to advance an opposing agenda — one grounded in sovereignty, accountability, and reparations.
PPF prepared submissions for the Summit but was unable to attend. We are publishing those documents here.
The first is our full Reparations Brief: Colonial Debt, the CFA Franc, and the Case for Reparations — a structured analysis of how the CFA franc system operates as an active instrument of French imperial extraction, the scale of illicit financial flows from Francophone Africa, and the legal and political basis for a reparations claim. The figures are sourced. The argument is direct.
The second is our Summit Brief — a distillation of the three demands PPF endorses from the Nairobi Declaration from Below: abolition of the Operations Account, an independent audit of illicit financial flows over five decades, and formal reparations negotiations under African Union and United Nations auspices.
These are not academic exercises. The Operations Account binding Central African states to the French Treasury is in force today. The trade misinvoicing losses documented by Global Financial Integrity ran from 2013 to 2022. The extraction is not historical — it is structural and it is current.
Download both documents below.
The positions expressed in these documents are those of the Pan-African Progressive Front and do not represent the views of the Summit organisers or the Working Committee of the Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism.