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Africa Must Arise

Freedom! Peace! Dignity! Prosperity! Slogans are endless to express what every human being in every society desires. People everywhere are always seeking to better their lives in all ways, with all the effort this requires and all the consequences this implies.

Yet not everyone in the world can be said to be satisfied with the present state of their conditions. In fact, most human beings are not. Dissatisfaction is an understatement to describe their feeling. It is clear that frustration reigns in the minds of the billions of people living in the South, the so called 'underdeveloped' world, where living standards fall way below the developed countries of the North. Disparity in wealth and living standards is often not a cause of inquiry or resentment. However, when this disparity is caused by the deliberate action of one society to exploit another, it becomes a cause of serious conflict.

Questions must be asked on the manner in which the imperialist nations made tremendous progress in agriculture, industry and general economic well being at the expense of the subjugated, colonised and exploited peoples of the rest of the world. But perhaps the most serious concern would be how, and why, this exploitation goes on even today in the form of neocolonialism. Africa and the rest of the developing world are still trapped in the shackles of the imperialist exploiters in the socioeconomic and political aspects of their lives.

It is this unfortunate state of affairs that prompts us to arise and make deliberations to correct the system for the betterment of our lives. Africa cannot again afford to allow the ongoing exploitation of its resources, both human and natural, by the imperialist nations of the North. Enough is enough! We must be masters of our own destiny! We must all come together speedily and work for our emancipation and absolute overthrow of the system.

Let us voice our solidarity in the Africanist League!

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