Republic of New Afrika
Republic of New Afrika | |
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Flag of the Republic of New Afrika | |
US States identified as subjugated national territory at the 1968 foundational conference | |
| Capital | Jackson, Mississippi |
| Largest city | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Official languages | African-American English |
| Demonym | New Afrikan |
| Government | |
• President | Sah Ankh Sa Ma’at |
• Vice President | Ayodele Kofie |
| Area | |
• Total | 750,503 km2 (289,771 sq mi) |
| Today part of | Southern United States |
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The Republic of New Afrika (RNA) is a black nationalist organization in the United States founded in 1968 after the civil rights movement. The organization has three goals: creation of an independent socialist country in the heart of the Black Belt in the American South, payment by the U.S. federal government of several billion dollars in reparations to African Americans for the damages inflicted on them through slavery and Jim Crow laws, and a plebiscite of all African Americans to determine their desires for citizenship. Its provisional government claims sovereignty over the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina (with adjoining areas in East Texas and North Florida) as subjugated national territory.
The organization experienced significant decline in the early 1970s primarily due to sustained government repression, including violent raids and mass arrests that imprisoned key leaders and disrupted operations. Efforts to build institutions involved land purchases, but the project encountered severe repression from federal and state authorities.