Where comes the idea of PDMR?
According to the comment of the initiator and founder of the Panafrican Democratic Movement for the Renaissance, the cameroonian Rocheteau Nkamto, it is in October 2000 that came to him the idea of creating a movement which will gather all young Africans for the exclusive defense of their interests.
Thus it tried to write between October and January 2000 a document "To whom profits the African Union?" of which I had the occasion to read the broad outline only on its return to Cameroon in December 2000; which unfortunately remained on manuscript until our days. In fact, its intention was that to challenge African youths to become aware of the mislaying of which we let ourselves carry by our African political leaders who destroy our countries, ensure the future of their children in the great Western cities, open fictitious accounts in the foreign banks with sums which exceed by far the funds of our countries, use us like shields during the electoral campains, sell our companies with the multinationals and force us to dead end.
In June 2001, it learned me that here is, the time arrived where we must awake our brothers and sisters, who are in Africa or in diapora to finish with the applause of the forums where our Heads of State are brought together: An alarm bell. It makes the first work with Enock Belmondo and Dr. Ngwang J Bongkiyung.
While in Durban in South Africa the Summit was taken place form June 28 to July 10, 2002 on the creation of the African Union, the PDMR (Panafrican Democratic Movement for the Renaissance) had already arrived at its last handwriting phase in Kufra in Libya. The sadness of young African, the distress of everyone was the role allotted to African youth: the folklore. As if until today in Africa, the African Union was exclusively the task of the Heads of State, a kind of reconversion of the African Unity to the African Union. It needed a young person to put forward the role of African youth in that new union. Myself, I was ashamed at the bottom of my amphitheatre. Where was the African Youth? What have it contributed for the blooming of our new continental political deal? Where was I myself? No young African had given support for the difficult task whose was committed the Guide of the Libyan revolution, Colonel Moammar El Qaddafi, for waking up in our time, the spirit of Abdul Nasser, Thomas Sankara and the very nationalist African Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkumah.
It is in May 2003, that he judged with the contribution of the others African campatriots to change the denomination of "Panafrican Democratic Movement for the Revolution" into "Panafrican Democratic Movement for the Renaissance". Africa having to revolutionize, it makes it to newly born and not to keep the old-fashions.
The specificity of the PDMR it is that, far from being a political panafrican movement, it is initially a cultural movement. It does not have only objectives to defend but it proposes solutions. These solutions are in appendix with the constitutive document ("the Dynamics of Integration of Africa" written in October-November 2003 by Rocheteau Nkamto). The priority for the man and young Africans, it is a total integration, the opening of the European borders on the ground of African, to Africans.
The PDMR is not thus, a movement in search of the power but supports the efforts of African in the process of integration of the societies and to hand-over the power to the African people and not to the individuals, nor to the political parties.
By Raymond Tchuente
