Psychosocial and Spiritual Revolutions - Thematic Table - World Humanist Forum - March 2025

CONFEDERATION OF THE SAHEL - AES

The confederation ‘Aliance des etats du Sahel’ (AES) was born in Bamako (Mali) on Saturday 16 September 2023 as a mutual defence pact between the peoples of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, who for decades have been confronted with systemic destabilisation by terrorist groups motivated by the interests of colonial and neo-colonial multinationals, in order to obtain the natural riches of African soil at low cost. 

In a short time, AES has transformed from a defence pact into a confederation that integrates economic, financial, infrastructural, mining, energy, technological, cultural and spiritual aspects, to mention a few.

The governments of the three countries, backed by substantial popular support, put an end to the presence of foreign military bases on their territory without firing a single shot, thus increasing their territorial and security sovereignty.

The Sahel countries also recover sovereignty over their natural resources (gold, uranium, lithium, ...) by revising old agreements and contracts to adapt them to the emancipatory needs of their respective peoples.

With the recovered resources they create reserves on the basis of which they set up common investment institutions for real development.

They also work on the creation of their own common currency and the exit from the neo-colonial CFA franc managed by external speculative financial institutions.

They work towards full food self-sufficiency with concrete support for projects in agriculture, animal farming, fisheries, irrigation and food processing.

In diplomacy, they gain international space and influence, giving other countries of the global south a practical example of overcoming external interference by defining their own policies in full autonomy from neo-colonial power centres.

The three populations carry out a profound cultural revolution, aimed at re-dynamising the best ancestral humanist traditions of Africa. In this sense, the awareness of being the cradle of humanity grows, refining the orientation of archaeological research towards the rediscovery of ancient civilisations such as the pre-Egyptian ones.

In some of these primordial conceptions, life on earth would consist of a process of refinement, a training in preparation for an angelised and cosmic existence.

In the AES space, we have witnessed notable psychosocial femonenes. The three member states liberated their territory from foreign military bases without firing a single shot, thanks to massive popular pressure supporting their revolutionary pan-Africanist governments. At the founding summit of the Alliance, we observed the multitudes acclaiming the three heads of state Asimi Goita, Ibrahima Traore and Abrourahmane Tiani as heroes as they walked among the people through the streets of Niamey.