Details concerning the registration of this association can be found in the Journal Officiel.
The association Afreeka Matateyou was created in 2014. According to a declaration dated 8 November 2014, the association "is part of a pan-African momentum for Africa to be reinvented and reborn. It aims to bring hope and to restore confidence in a strong Africa, strengthened by the gathering of its people."
Afreeka Matateyou sets out to operate internationally, in particular by taking action before courts, governments and national or international organizations. The association is willing to work in partnership with other national or regional associations and also to cooperate with other associations pursuing the same goal as itself.
The objectives of Afreeka Matateyou are as follows:
- To inform, educate and to raise awareness about Africa, its people, its heritage, its history and current events
- To advocate for the promotion of African languages as official languages for work and communication
- To work towards the creation of an annual international homage commemorating the tragedy of the massive forced deportation of black Africans during the slave trade, and to foreground the unwavering determination of the African nation to rebuild and reconnect
- To develop pilgrimage sessions with a memorial, patrimonial and scientific focus with the aim of reconnecting and mutually reconstructing relations between Africans and Afro-descendants on the one hand, and between Africa and its diaspora on the other; these actions are part of a Pan-African concept of homage to the martyred ancestors, including places of resistance and places of deportations in Africa and in the various territories of the African Diaspora
- To defend the memory of the victims of colonialism in general, and in particular of those who were deported and enslaved, and to honour their descendants
- To fight against all forms of discrimination, particularly those directed at people of African descent