The Shoulders We Stand On
Fannie Lou Hamer
Medger Evers
Chokwe Lumumba
About Us
NAIAI Purpose Statement
As found in the Agreement of Members-(By-Laws)
We are the descendants of the people of different African nations who were kidnapped and brought to North America against their will. Time, our particular history and a unique gene pool, brought about by our experiences in North. America, has forged a new nation of people. We are similar and yet distinct from our ancestors. New Afrikans, as a nation of people in North America, have continuously sought freedom. We define freedom generally as the ability of a people to control their own lives. Self-determination is another way of describing this ability.
In our pursuit of self-determination, We of the New Afrikan Investment Association Inc. have come together to build a collective financial institution that will assist the ongoing movement of our people to be self-determining.
The purpose of the N.A.I.A.I is to build a collective financial institution that is beneficial to the New Afrikan nation and profitable for the members of the N.A.I.A.I. We plan to achieve our financial goals by investing the assets of the association in stocks, bonds, real estate, business opportunities and other investments as determined by the members.While our focus is financial, We understand that Self Determination cannot be achieved solely by financial endeavors. We will continually strive to educate our nation, our association and ourselves, in all worthwhile matters pertinent to the improvement of New Afrikan people and our continuing pursuit of freedom.
Excerpts & Modifications of the New Afrikan Creed.
1. I believe in the spirituality, humanity and genius of New Afrikan people and in our renewed pursuit of these values.
2. I believe in the family and the community and in the community as a family and i will work to make this concept live.
3. I believe in the community as more important than the individual.
4. I believe in constant struggle for freedom to end oppression and build a better world. I believe in collective struggle in fashioning victory in concert with my Brothers and Sisters.
5. I believe that the fundamental reason our oppression continues is that We as a people lack the power to control our lives.
7. I believe that all the land in America upon which We have lived for a long time, which We have worked and built upon and which We have fought to stay on, is land for us to use as a people.
11. I will follow my chosen leaders and help them.
12. I will love my Brothers and Sisters as myself.
13. I will steal nothing from a Brother or Sister, cheat no Brother or Sister, misuse no Brother or Sister, inform on no Brother or Sister, and spread no gossip.
14. I will keep myself clean in body, dress and speech, knowing that i am a light set on a hill, a true representative of what We are building.
15. I will be patient and uplifting with the deaf, mute and blind. And i will seek by word and deed to heal the New Afrikan family. To bring into the movement and into the community, Mothers and Fathers, Brothers and Sisters left by the wayside.
Lumumba Territory
Prior to the U.S. Civil War of 1861 the New Afrikan and African population in North America was mainly found in an area commonly referred to as the “Black Belt South”. This was a vast contiguous region of nearly 1,000 miles in length with a majority New Afrikan and African population that was over 90% enslaved. The Black Belt stretched from roughly the southern half of Virginia in the north through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and into east Texas in the west. This Black Belt also included parts of southwest Tennessee and eastern Arkansas.
Prior to the U.S, Civil War in 1860 the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina had clear NA majority populations while Alabama and Georgia probably did. What We refer to as the Lumumba Territory is the largest remnant of this vast contiguous (Black Belt) region.
We use the name of the late Freedom Fighter, the “People’s Lawyer”, Husband, Father and Mayor of Jackson Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba to denote the Lumumba Territory (LT). It is a contiguous region that stretches roughly from just above and east of Memphis, TN in the North to almost New Orleans, LA in the South, a distance of approximately 400 miles in length. It is on both sides of the Mississippi River. It includes parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee but it is mostly in Mississippi.
The Lumumba Territory in square miles is larger than many territories, countries and sovereign nation-states throughout the world. For example: Albania, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, East Timor, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Hong Kong, Israel, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Jamaica, Jordan, Kuwait, Kosovo, Lebanon, Netherlands, Palestine, Panama, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Rwanda, Scotland, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, UAE, etc. The Lumumba Territory (LT) is the largest contiguous area of New Afrikan majority population in North America. The LT in square miles would be the 110th (of approximately 196 countries) largest country in the world.
NEW AFRIKAN INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION INC LOCATIONS:
Claiborne County
Mailing Address: NAIAICC, P.O. Box 821, Port Gibson, MS 39150
Jefferson County
Mailing Address: NAIAIJC, P.O. Box 2292Fayette, MS 39069
Warren County
Mailing Address: NAIAIWC, P.O. Box 822636,. Vicksburg, MS 39182
Hinds County
Mailing Address: NAIAIHC, P.O. Box 11615, Jackson, MS 39283
Adams County
Mailing Address: NAIAIAC, P.O. Box 2184, Natchez, MS 39120
Yazoo County
Mailing Address: NAIAIYC, P.O. Box 1164, Yazoo City, MS 39194
Rudy Shield
Mailing Address: NAIAIRS, P.O. Box 290, Port Gibson, MS 39150
Ida B. Wells
Mailing Address: 1519 Union Ave. #145 Memphis, TN 38104