The Struggle And It’s Ingredients -By Aina Ademola

Before we kick start any program towards liberation,  complete and seamless emancipation, we first of all must identify some necessary ingredients which must serve as a nuclei in the struggle for liberation.

As Friedrich Engels said “Whenever there’s a revolutionary convulsion, it means some basic social wants are lacking in the background” to buttress and validate this Frantz Fanon said  “We revolt for no specific culture, we revolt, simply because for so many reasons we can no longer breathe”. This in an of itself in a very Germaine ingredient that will ultimately lead to a radical revolutionary explosion.

We must from the beginning identify the enemy, the oppressor, the reason we are where we are, hothead machinations of the oppressor and the tactics he has put in place to keep us subjugated. The core problem of Afrika is bad leadership, and we can see the homogeneousness of this today, it is conspicuous and unequivocal that the problem Afrika has today is a uniform problem, the same leadership problem we have in Nigeria it’s the same we have in Uganda, Angola, Cameroon etc and this is directly affecting the life and development of African people.

Now that this has been identified, it’s only normal and proper to embark on a process to annihilate this economically and politically asphyxiating conditions by any means necessary. The African National bourgeoisie is suffering from an unprecedented level of paranoia, the African National bourgeoisie is a enemy of the struggle, a traitor, and dare we say it, a bigot who has done nothing but impeding the struggle of the total liberation of the masses by the capitalistic machinations of oppression and subjugation in his possession. As Frantz Fanon said, “The African National bourgeoisie is an extension of the metropolitan bourgeoisie, that’s where he get his legitimacy, validity and strength from” the African National bourgeoisie is a circumspect oligarchic and an autarchic who applies brute force on the people for their agitation and perturbation for good governance, justice and egalitarianism. This assertion was validated by Kwame Nkrumah when he said “capitalists are cohesive, they are conscious of themselves as a class, they have objective interests, they are aware of their position and the threat posed to their continued dominance by a rising tied of peasants and working class revolt” the cohesiveness and the exhibition of mental disequilibrium of the ruling class can be manifested in cases where they apply brute force, where they make use of their deluded instruments, the police and the army who have been alienated from their class against the people who are demanding, nothing but good governance, justice and a total end to oppression. This wicked act is pervasive over Africa and has subjected Afrikans to living in a riddled world bound with taboos, oppression and systemic restrictions.

A revolutionary intelligentsia must erupt from the subject people, as Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah said “when an intelligentsias rises from a subject people, it becomes the vanguard of the resistance of an alien rule”
Now, to embark on a chain breaking program there has to first of all be unity & solidarity, there has to be proper political education the national, social and political consciousness of the subjected people must be elevated, because a struggle can only be successful when the masses have attained social consciousness. This shall be done by the Vangaurd Revolutionary party who shall be in charge of the supervision and organization of the masses of the people towards freedom and Justice.

There are some specific people that have to be identified and harnessed in this just struggle. The peasants, working class and the Lumpenproletariats. Now, who are the Lumpenproletariats? The Lumpenproletariats are are subdivision of the peasant stratum they are very chaotic, disorganized, disoriented and un-revolutionary, they are the thugs, hoodlums, career criminals and permanently unemployed. These people are a very important sect of the masses and a very vital ingredient for the struggle, they’d answer the call to revolt, they are the ones that’d be needed to urbanize the struggle, if we fail to make use of them, or we sideline them, they’d answer the call to revolt but this time on the oppressors side, this is a major reason why many movement fail in Africa. Let’s take the #EndSars movement for example, the #EndSars movement was a class clash, it was a leaderless movement that was anchored strictly by the working class, the movement was devoid of a revolutionary intelligentsia, it was null of the peasants and the Lumpenproletariat and this is a major reason why it failed, because the elites used the lumpenproletariats the movement failed to use to their own advantage. That’s why we saw that the govt allegedly used thugs and hoodlums to destabilize the movement. These people could have been used to the advantage of the movement.

As Frantz Fanon said ‘The underprivileged and starving peasants who very soon discovers that only violence pays Colonization or decolonization is simply a power struggle. The exploited realize that their liberation implies using every means available and force is the first’.

A time will come when the starving peasants of Africa will be their oppressor take to their heels.

As people who want change for Africa, our major weapon is truth, truth hastens the dislocation of the colonial regime and fosters the emergence of a new nation, truth is what protects the natives and undoes their foreigners. The oppressor hates to hear the truth.

Africa can only be free when African decide that their continent cannot continue to be a playing ground.

Written by: Aina Ademola
Gmail: nirandemola@gmail.com
Twitter: OgbeniDemola

This article is dedicated to Nina Simone.