On April 26, 2026, the Parliament of the State of the African Diaspora (SOAD) adopted the Law of Continuity, Sovereign Stewardship and Ancestral Justice, affirming a central principle,according to it’s official statement issued in London recently.
African sovereignty,the statement noted, endures beyond colonization, through ancestral covenant, customary law, and living communities.
Grounded in the historical continuum of Terra Aethiopum, the Act,the release noted, recognizes the lasting legitimacy of African kingdoms, customary institutions, and knowledge systems across the continent and the global Diaspora.
This legislation,it undercored, establishes a restorative framework. It does not challenge existing states, but promotes coexistence through:
– recognition of ancestral governance structures
– protection of cultural heritage and knowledge
– restitution and restoration initiatives
– stewardship-based governance rooted in dignity and intergenerational responsibility
The Act also clarifies that colonial doctrines used to justify dispossession lack legitimacy within the SOAD legal framework, and affirms governance grounded in consent, continuity, and natural law.
This Act does not create new claims. It recognizes an enduring reality, that African peoples remain bound by shared heritage, responsibility, and the right to self-determination.
The adoption of this law marks a significant step in aligning law, history, and identity within a framework of continuity, dignity, and peaceful cooperation.
Vice Prime Minister Keturah Amoako, Kandake Houindokon, who submitted the Law to the Parliament stated:
“I am exceedingly proud that our Parliament has enacted a legal foundation for true restoration. We know the Kingdoms and Queendoms of Africa never fell, they were suppressed. There is a profound legal and spiritual distinction between the two. What falls ceases. What is suppressed endures, waiting for the moment the weight is removed. That moment is NOW.
The doctrines deployed against African and indigenous peoples, terra nullius, the false civilising mandate, the fiction of discovery, were not principles of truth. They were constructed after the fact to justify what had already been done. Any law erected upon an illegal foundation does not become lawful through the passage of time. It remains, at its root, void. That is not law. That is a crime dressed in the language of law.
Under this Act and the Decree of the Law of Continuity, those constructions no longer hold standing. Not because we declare them defeated, but because they were never legitimate to begin with. Illegality does not age into validity. Wrong does not become right because it was written down, institutionalised, or left unchallenged for generations. What is built on violation carries the nature of violation within it.
What was restored today is not something lost. The Royal Thrones, the Traditional Councils, the ancestral covenant between peoples, their lands, their spirituality, their knowledge systems, their custodial governance structures, these never required colonial recognition to be real. They required only that we, as their inheritors and custodians, refuse to accept the attempts of their erasure. What has always been true in spirit and in practice is now enshrined, given structure, standing, and permanence in our Law.
To our Ancestors whose authority was trodden upon but never surrendered, this Act and the Decree rises in your name. To the international community, Africa and her Diaspora stand where we have always stood, on the terms our Ancestors established, long before anyone arrived to tell them otherwise.”
The Prime Minister congratulated the Vice Prime Minister, who is also a Queen, for introducing this Bill, which is fully in line with the mandate of her Ministry of Reparation, Restitution, Return, and Restoration. Furthermore, Dr. Louis-Georges Tin encouraged the nations, which were colonized in the past, to take up this initiative and adopt similar legislation.
The Law of Continuity, Sovereign Stewardship and Ancestral Justice and the forthcoming Decree can be found here: Click Here
About SOAD
Within the African Union, there are 6 regions: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, plus one last region, the “Sixth Region”, which constitutes the African Diaspora.
The political, economic and cultural importance of this Diaspora is increasingly recognized. It contributes greatly to the development of Africa and this is why the African Union has symbolically included the Diaspora in its organisation.This “Sixth Region” exists in the constitution of the African Union.
In 2003, at the end of the AU Summit, the Heads of State declared (14 (XVIII) add. :
“The African Union (…) decides to recognize the African Diaspora as an effective entity contributing to economic and social development of the continent. “
For many years this “Sixth Region” of the AU existed only on paper. Uncoordinated, it remained a virtual reality. It was therefore necessary to give substance to this institution, and move from a de facto diaspora to a de jure diaspora.
In 2014, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President-in-Office of the African Union gave a mandate to Dr Louis-Georges Tin, chairperson of the CRAN (the French black coalition), to set up the African Diaspora, to “give substance” to the Sixth Region:
“You wished to attract our attention about your project that aims to give substance to the 6th region of the African Union(…). The interview I had with you and the information that we collected about your activities gave me the assurance of the major role the CRAN can play to contribute to the implementation of the programs of development of our Continent. “
Since then, with an international team, Dr Louis-Georges Tin has formed a Government, and launched development projects in all areas with the support of many African Authorities, such as the Republic of Mauritania, the Republic of Somalia, the Pan African Council of Traditional or Customary Authorities, the Hight Council of Wise Men etc., that all support this initiative.
In July 2018, during the Summit of the African Union, Dr Louis-Georges Tin launched this initiative : the State of the African Diaspora was born.
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