Interview with Lead Organizer of AAMA 2026, Prince Akpah, Pan-African Solidarity and Mobilisation Lead at Africans Rising
Prince Akpah is not booking conference rooms and printing name badges. As Pan-African Solidarity and Mobilisation Lead at Africans Rising, he is pulling together hundreds of grassroots activists for the All-African Movements Assembly 2026, set to convene in Maputo, and the work behind the scenes is as political as the gathering itself.
One of the most pressing challenges Akpah faces is something frustratingly familiar to Africans trying to move across the continent: visa restrictions and the systemic barriers that make international travel a bureaucratic obstacle course. Getting activists from across Africa into the same room is, on its own, an act of resistance.
What sets AAMA 2026 apart is its deliberate rejection of stiff, corporate-style formats. Instead, the assembly leans into decentralized, trauma-informed approaches to solidarity, centering the people who have historically been organized around rather than with.
For Akpah and Africans Rising, this is pan-Africanism as a living practice, built from the frontline up. Watch this space to see what Maputo makes possible.
Originally published by This Is Africa.