We believe firmly in the ideals of Pan Africanism, which is normally defined as the necessity for a united Africa. Pan Africanism is more than African unity, however; it strives for the emancipation of Africans both at home and in the diaspora from foreign influenced bondage. Through an understanding of a common condition of being an enslaved and colonised people, Pan Africanism calls for Africans to have pride in their own great histories, to develop independent forms of government, and to rely on indigenous and *positive* African values as the foundation of their societies. African unity is necessary in order to resist foreign exploitation.
By Pan Africanism, Movement for African Emancipation (MAE) believes in *revolutionary pan Africanism*, following the footsteps of leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure, and Amiclar Cabral who led movements to remove imperialism from their countries. And as imperialism is defined by capitalism, MAE believes that *socialism* is an integral part of Pan Africanism. Not only because socialism is the antithesis of capitalism but because socialism is based on the same collectivist spirit that was at the core of African values. It is also the best political model to ensure that the poor and working peoples of Africa are not exploited and oppressed.  
Pan Africanism is about power for the majority of the people. We do not believe that Pan Africanism should be just about CULTURE, even if in taking pride in our origins we emphasise the positive aspects of our *indigenous* cultures.  Pan Africanism in essence should be a movement from below that is interested in power for the people, not a cultural ideal that can be adopted even by the mis-leaders of the continent to distract from the main aim of Pan Africanism, which is power for the people under an Africanist and Socialist ideology.
In sum, what Pan Africanism calls for is African solutions to African problems. The solutions we try to apply to societal problems must be relevant to our context.

At MAE, we emphasise critical thinking, which is logical reasoning based on evidence, rather than dogmatic thinking. For example, it is such dogmatic thinking that makes people reason to impose ideologies that have worked in Europe on Africa, without applying ideologies to fit to the particular local context.  A lack of critical thinking is also responsible for many leaders falling into the trap of ethnic and other intolerance (such as homophobia).  We believe leaders within the movement should be careful to avoid imbibing ideologies that in essence work for the continuation of the system of oppression under which people are ruled. Religion in particular is the most potent of such dogmatic thinking that helps to blind people from their true conditions and at MAE we are critical of religions, especially foreign religions through which people have rejected core African values and imbibed the ideologies through which they were put into bondage.  We encourage members to maintain a critical eye on all viewpoints and to engage in healthy debate.  Most importantly, we encourage a reading culture, as reading is crucial to critical thinking.

In conjunction with the oppression that Africans suffer has been a propaganda to make Africans believe they are inferior to their colonisers and enslavers. Our leaders have carried out this indoctrination on behalf of the neo-colonisers and so have adopted foreign influenced education. This means that children are not taught in their indigenous languages from when they start school and are not taught about their great African history or values. Where African history is taught, it merely represents the lies of the foreigners, such as that Mungo Park discovered River Niger. It is necessary therefore that a new African centred education arises.  An adequate in-depth knowledge of African history will equip us as graduated students of African affairs to hold our space in laying solid foundation for building a United States of Africa that will facilitate socio-political, socioeconomic and sociocultural stability in Nigeria and the entire Africa.

Achieving the historic and total liberation of our motherland from political and economic servitude, mental emancipation is necessary. Our people need to believe in their own ability to change their circumstances rather than copying foreign ways and believing that whatever is foreign is best and whatever is African is bad.  To reach a situation where the masses will arise for freedom and will be able to hold political power independent of neo colonisers, there is a need to raise the consciousness of the masses so they can realise that they have the power to fight for the liberation of Nigeria and that it is possible to build a new society on positive African values.  Knowledge of our African history will enable motherland people to trace back their great past history as a basis to determine their brighter today and tomorrow for next generations to come.

The traditional principle of raising consciousness rests on the culture embedded in a new African renaissance. New born renascent Africans of our present modern generation are tasked in this century to carry out the rebirth of a new Africa proud in its culture, which has produced great art over the previous centuries.  Proud of this art, we believe Nigerians have the potential to develop new formats in film, animation, literature, comics, cartoons, artistic drawings, etc that emphasise our great African cultural heritage.

This encompasses the principle of making intellectual youth with black power consciousness that will occupy the position of leadership in different areas of social and political life. Our youth should be developed to be leaders of thought that are capable of causing the fundamental change that will lead to emancipation for our peoples.

Women have always been at the heart of African life and prior to imperialism occupied central positions in society, even if the position of women was never perfect. Women across Africa have been queens, political leaders, warriors, and traders, and have always worked rather than being just stay at home wives and mothers. The coming of colonialism intensified women subjugation such that today women have been mostly excluded from politics and from being leaders in the economy. Women must not be treated as second class citizens; no society can thrive if it excludes the talent and potential of half of its citizenry. This must change if we are to achieve our dream of emancipation. After all, women were crucial leaders in the struggle for our first independence. They must occupy central positions in the coming struggle for a new emancipation.