Towards the Insurrection of Pan-Africanism!!!

The undeniable fact is that when these true sons of Africa, Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, J. C. Hayford, and few others, started their campaign for what would become the concept of Pan-Africanism in the late 19th century, they never for a second thought they would be this welcomed!!!

They never because several white supremacists in their numbers tried to emasculate them, but Black people knew what was best for them. They were welcomed throughout the nooks and crannies of the Black world. Garvey never visited Africa before his death but during his lifetime and after his demise, even the rural dwellers in the deepest part of Africa knew there was a Garvey!!!

The truth is that, these set of Africans and their contemporaries studied not to secure a space within the white dominated system, these set of Africans never settled for less, these set of Africans read the whole book they could as a tool to liberate their own people. Garvey was even a self-taught Jamaican!!!

They dedicated their entire lives for the total emancipation of their own people without compromising. Albeit, some within the same race even sold them out to our foes, yet they remained focus, and unyielding!!!

These gallant soldiers fulfilled the purpose of their generation by raising African soldiers that fought the first Scramble for Africa, which was of course the colonial carving up of the continent, as many African nationalists fought for the freedom of their respective countries using the concept of pan-Africanism as their compass!!!

Sadly, after independence the ideals of these great minds were discarded in several African countries. Even in Ghana, the leading Nkrumah's pan-African political party was relegated to the background because of the growing influence of the Western capitalist countries!!!

All pan-African movements just after the independence of most African countries were suppressed, marking the collapse of pan-African movements in Africa. Though the concept still remains in several books for Africans to read about but never in the streets for Africans to see, except in few places!!!

Because of our lack of awareness, sense of history, a great chunk of Africans are even oblivious of the fact that there is a second phase of the Scramble for Africa, currently going on!!!

The Chinese, Lebanese, Indians, Britons, French, Americans, MNC's wants you to believe that Africans cannot control their own resources. The second phase of the Scramble is what we are witnessing today under the so called globalization!!
We have refused to look down on the blood and tears of the founding fathers, we have refused to let their struggle be entombed with the passing days. There's need for a reawakening and that moment is now!!!

The truth is that, we have refused to live just by what we think and plan, now what matters to us is what we do!!

We have refused to demand from the universe what we want through our thoughts, now what matters is through our actions!!!

We have refused to be judged on the day of reckoning based on what we read, now what matters is based on what we have done!!!

We have refused to be patient with our actions because it is not going to take us anywhere!!!

We hope to move from one base to another base until Africa is ONLY for Africans!!!