"The nation state experiment has failed for black people worldwide," Afro-Politan's Manifesto says. "Scarcity, weakness, poverty, wherever we look and wherever we are, Africans worldwide are subjects, not citizens", it adds. EJ: "For the most part, life is just about surviving, not thriving." 'I feel that once we start going into the details, then it's like, okay, this makes sense, or I understand,' he said.