The larger New Afrika movement in particular has three goals: The idea of the RNA arose following the events of the 1967 Detroit riot.

[3]: 276 The vision for this country was first promulgated by the Malcolm X Society[4] on March 31, 1968, at a Black Government Conference held in Detroit, Michigan.

The conference participants drafted a constitution and declaration of independence,[4] and they identified five Southern states Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina (with adjoining areas in East Texas and North Florida) as subjugated national territory.

[3]: 276 The Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PG-RNA) advocated/advocates a form of cooperative economics through the building of New Communities—named after the Ujamaa concept promoted by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere.

For example, it attempted to assist Oceanhill-Brownsville area in Brooklyn to secede from the United States during the 1968 conflict over control of public schools.