Black Nationalism, The Road To Africa’s Liberation -By Aina Ademola

Black nationalism is a philosophy that lies on the bedrock of African emancipation. When one is a black nationalist, it means that ones economic, social and political philosophy is black nationalism, black nationalism is an umbrella philosophy that encompasses economic, political and social life.

The economic philosophy of black nationalism means that Black people must control the economics of their society, black business must be set up, determined and influenced by Black people and Black people alone. Black nationalism in a nutshell means Black people must make their economic decisions without external intervention.

The political philosophy of black nationalism simply means that the black man must control the politics and the politicians in his community without any intervention. Lastly the social philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man must not be socially degraded in his own community

Before we talk about the process of black liberation we first of all talk about who the oppressor is and how we as a race have found ourselves in this critical situation. Not to take away the burden from the shoulders of Africans, we have to face reality that Africa’s political and economic stagnation is as a result of western capitalist countries in cohorts with puppet African leaders running a completely African satellites state in favor of the imperialists looting and raping Africa. Africa’s wealth has been continually, for centuries been hijacked by western capitalist powers; Africa’s underdevelopment is caused mainly by this. Understand that no African country running capitalism is revolutionary, any African country running capitalism is directly under the grip of the hallmark of capitalism which is Europe and America. Now, the wealth gotten from the labor of African working class and peasants is being carted away to the greedy metropolis by their puppet who is running an African client or satellite state on behalf of the imperialists, So in the long run, Africans don’t enjoy the wealth emanating from their labor, it’s being carted away to Europe and America that’s why you see today Africa is backward despite many natural resources.

Black people have a moral obligation to break their chains and bring their liberty and freedom into existence by any means necessary. As much as we fight the imperialists, by the same token, by the same vein and ferocity we must fight African leaders who have been selling the masses of the people out, because these people are as criminal and dangerous as the imperialists themselves; Imperialism has to be fought organically. If a diagnosis of underdevelopment is carried out in Africa, it won’t only reveal low per capita income and protein deficiency, it’d also reveal the gentlemen who dance in Lagos, Kinshasa, Johannesburg when music is being played in London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris and New York. When we talk of black nationalism we talk of the total emancipation of Black people who are under the yoke of oppression and brutality all over the world. Oppression and dehumanization of black people have been lying way too long and for historical vindication and for the sake of posterity, it’s only justified for us Black people to break this yoke of oppression and to bring our freedom and liberty into existence by any means necessary. Black people are often told to be nonviolent and peaceful when its time for the liberation struggle, but whatever violence Black people utilize is justified, because the violence of the slave cannot be measured by the same yardstick as that of the slave masters. Decolonization as a means of emancipation is inevitably a violent process and but it can be non violent or brought to the barest minimum if the oppressor is wiling to grant the oppressed total freedom and liberty. As Malcom X stated “America is in a unique position to experience a non violent revolution only if she’s willing to give the black man every that’s due to him, everything!” . On decolonization Frantz Fanon said ‘Decolonization is a violent process, decolonization simple means the substitution of one species of mankind by another, the substitution is unconditional, absolute and seamless’.

“The dictum of all men are equal will only find its illustration in the colonies when the colonized subject states that he’s equal to the colonists”

Frantz Fanon. This means that freedom isn’t something that’s given on a platter of gold, freedom emanates from intense struggle because the oppressor will not capitulate until the the bedrock of his power is shaken and this can only be done by the unity and organization of the working class and peasants who are the revolutionary element in every political condition. As far as the economic life of Black people lies in the hands of imperialists in Europe and America, it means directly that the political life of Africa lies in the hands of these same people and an alternative must be created by the working class and peasants to put an end to imperialism and sham political independence.

Aina Ademola

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This article is dedicated to black nationalist freedom fighters all over the world.