ABOUT
AfroManifesto
An archive of
African political memory
Five principles guide everything in the archive — what we collect, how we verify it, and how we present it to the public. They’re the difference between a website that hosts manifestos and an institution that preserves them.
Accessibility
Every manifesto in the archive is free to read, free to download, and organised to be found. We remove the friction between citizens and the documents their political representatives publish.
Accountability
An archived promise is one that can be revisited. By preserving what parties said they would do, we make it possible to ask whether they did.
Authenticity
Manifestos are preserved in their original form, with their original language, layout, and source noted. We do not edit, summarise, or paraphrase them.
Awareness
Alongside the archive, the Journal explains how manifestos are written, how political language evolves, and how to read them critically.
Advocacy
We advocate for one thing only: that political memory is worth preserving, and that informed citizenship depends on it.
Our Story
AfroManifesto is an independent, non-partisan, pan-African digital archive of political party manifestos. We collect manifestos from parties contesting elections across the continent, preserve them in their original form, and make them freely accessible to anyone who wants to read them.
Manifestos are historical documents. They are the clearest record a political party leaves behind of what it believed, what it promised, and what it asked the public to accept. Read years later, they tell the story of their time — the anxieties, the aspirations, the assumptions, the language. Across much of Africa, these documents are difficult to find. Parties update their websites, old manifestos disappear, and election-season promises vanish from the public record before the next cycle begins.
AfroManifesto does not rank parties. We do not endorse candidates. We do not fact-check manifestos against party conduct. We do not publish opinion on who should win an election or what a country should do next. These are important conversations — they are not our conversations. Ours is to keep the record.
ABOUT AfroManifesto is an independent, pan-African archive of political party manifestos. Registered as an NPC in South Africa. Reg. 2024/246929/08
Political memory matters.
What We Believe
Manifestos are historical documents — and historical documents deserve to be preserved with the same care as any other archive.
Political memory is fragile. Parties forget. Citizens forget. Without record, accountability becomes guesswork.
An archive is not a verdict.
We collect. We donot judge.
The reader does the rest.