What does it mean to be an African person?

With the Declaration by the African Union of the Diaspora as the Sixth Region of the continent – a centenary demand of activists and intellectuals – debates resurface around the African identity. It aims to explain via African epistemologies: how does pan-Africanist thought condition criteria and principles of identity and citizenship towards the institutionalization of racialized and pluralistic policies for the Sixth Region? Paths of self-determination are debated when problematizing the concept of “diaspora.” Endogenous criteria and principles that condition reparatory and racialized policies are discussed. Finally, contributions and potential of the epistemological assumptions afrocentered for International Relations.