We support any defiant attitude against imperialism. In this case, French colonial imperialist imperialism, the fattest tapeworm clinging to Africa’s guts for generations. The three coupist countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger issued a joint solidarity statement against French colonial—imperialists and their neocolonial stooge governments, with a stern warning that an attack on Niger would be considered a declaration of war on the tripartite, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
This is an extraordinary act of justifiable rebellion against the parasitic French government. And it is for this reason that we warily compare these coups to Thomas Sankara’s and his colleagues’ 1983 takeover of the then-‘Upper Volta’ regime. Sankara and his few allies fought hard to turn the coup into a revolution, but the revolutionary forces were not fully prepared to withstand Blaise Campoare and his criminal gang’s treacherous machinations.
There are lessons to be gained from Sankara’s earlier mistakes if another Thomas Sankara or a genuine revolutionary arises from this contradiction. You must immediately cultivate a cadre of revolutionaries from the masses of workers, farmers, and the few honest intellectuals steeled with organizational discipline and ready to repel any attacks launched by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the request of France and its western allies. Before putting a gun in the hands of troops, police, and other security forces entrusted with our security, we must make political education a necessity. Only politically conscious African boys and daughters should be given firearms. The greatest way to defend against this impending invasion is to launch a people’s war against ECOWAS. After receiving political education, no African soldier will follow orders to pour another African’s blood in the cause of these ‘colonialists in black faces.’
Currently, the neocolonial entity ECOWAS, like its parent organization, the African Union (AU), is foaming at the mouth, ready to spill African blood through their military outfit, just as they carried out military mayhem in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Guinea Bissau. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray of the Gambia, the head of the ECOWAS commission, gave the statement to Niger with an ultimatum to return Mohamed Bazoum to power or face military consequences. More enraged than Touray is Nigeria’s newly elected president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is fueling the embers of military intervention while refusing to suppress the ragged ‘jihadists,’ Boka Haram.
Military bases from the United States and France dot the African continent. Only the African Union’s buffoonery surpasses that of ECOWAS, the builder of the unviable African states stuck in their illusory sovereignty and awareness to keep Africa stagnant. The United States of America, the “greatest purveyor of violence,” and its lap dog, France, are waiting for their stooges to launch another war in West Africa before ‘circling the wagons’ around Niger.
In times of crisis, the impotent African petit bourgeoisie leaders would always resort to bleeding African blood but will belly crawl and negotiate with Europeans and Arabs.
The vast majority of our people must reject to be confined to voting, electoral campaigns, and pleading with politicians for favors. In which African country has a civilian government outperformed a military rule in the name of democracy?
Let us perceive the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. We must organize to govern on all fronts of the African revolution, but only through revolutionary politics that sought reasons for our conditions of life from the actual material conditions that created the misery we live in, transforming it into a heaven for Europe and America. Politics, on the other hand, has thrived on idealism, superstition, tribalism, and blind faith religion to the point where the vast majority of our people believe that everything that happens in our lives is God’s purpose for us. Our material realities of colonial exploitation and oppression, on the other hand, indicate otherwise. We think that if God was involved in this world, everyone would have access to food, clothing, and shelter.
The struggle for liberation, freedom, and social justice against the propped-up neocolonial state that is accountable for our unhappiness as Africans is critical for the masses to know and appreciate. The most fervent opportunists, from’slimy politicians’ to the defenders of colonial education’s traditional limitations, feel that theory is beyond the grasp of our people’s oppressed masses.
This long-held belief is being gradually shattered by riotous and rebellious actions across the continent, and no ‘power’ can stop it if it continues on its revolutionary course.
Africans’ development of political consciousness is the only way to protect themselves from betrayals and the customary hijacking by’soldiers with a difference,’ such as Yaya Jammeh and Julius Maada Bio, who leaped out of their military uniforms into civilian garb but continued to practice ‘politics as usual.’ Blaise Campoare, Mobutu, and many more traitors remain among us, and the ECOWAS and African Union (AU) are breeding grounds for these ‘colonialists in black faces.’
The terms colonialism, imperialism, neocolonialism, and the predatory capitalist socioeconomic system are not just words. This social system is what made Africa hell on Earth and Europe, America, and ‘white people’ in general heaven on Earth. This is historical information. Only a revolutionary purging will be able to remove these parasites from Africa’s belly. We understand how to identify imperialism and its neocolonial partners. We have lived for centuries with imperialism’s knee on our neck; thus, when imperialism is in difficulty, we Africans should not panic. The question is, what should be done when it is dying?
The old order has vanished. This social structure is irreparably wounded and shattered, beyond repair or restoration. It will never be repaired. There has never been a better time for Africa and the rest of oppressed humanity to fight back and prevent the restoration of the savage social system that has caused havoc on the earth.
