In its own words, the Neo Black Movement of Africa is a "registered non-partisan, non-religious and non- tribal organisation that sincerely seek to revive, retain and modify where necessary those aspects of African culture that would provide vehicles of progress for Africa and her peoples. The Neo Black Movement holds that a people can only progress rapidly by using and modifying where necessary such knowledge and instruments that has since distant past been familiar to them. The current President of the Neo Black Movement of Africa is Mr Augustus Bemigho-Eyeoyibo. A representative of the Neo Black Movement of Africa has claimed to be separate from the Black Axe groups and has engaged in charitable giving.
However, behind the welfare facade of the Neo Black Movement hides indeed the most dreaded Nigerian campus cult, the Black Axe confraternity. NBM usually state that they are not identical with Black Axe for propaganda purposes. While the atrocities committed by campus cult members are well-known, very little is known about other activities of the Neo Black Movement. There is no documentation of political or other activities aimed at achieving any of the purposes stated on the website of the Neo Black Movement. Neither are there any published results of their "researches on African Traditions and Culture", nor is there any published evidence of campaigns or activities that would "stand against all acts of Racial Contempt and Conflict, Exclusion, Discrimination and Intolerance" or "enhance and promote the image of Black people all over the World" or "internalize and evolve realistic approach towards providing solutions for Africa's problems". Offiong claims that the group's initial goal of promoting black consciousness and fighting for the dignity of Africans and their freedom from neo-colonialism has deteriorated into self-serving behaviour that is "notoriously and brutally violent" (Offiong 2003, 69-70). He maintains that violence has in fact become the cult's official policy (ibid., 70).
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