MASS SUPPORT: The Challenge For 21st Century Revolutionary

The 21st-century Revolutionaries’ major challenge is mass support, most especially in a place like Africa. Is this due to misinformation, lack of true knowledge of our history, or Africans all over the world just tired of fighting, hence they rather integrate, seek equality, or plead to have what Nigerians call “AT ALL AT ALL”?  Unfortunately, no Revolutionary will ever ascribe to integrating, as integrating will never bring about the best in us, or help us to experience what we could by ourselves become. According to Kwame Touré, until Africa is free, no African will ever be free.

Of all the Revolutionaries, Malcolm X was feared the most. Today, in Africa, dead or alive, OMOYELE Sowore is the person I respect the most. His consistency in all ramifications remains unmatched.

The worst Africans are the ones in control of Africa today, and this was the handwork of the Colonial Masters. Only through a revolution can we get ourselves back on track because these set of people will never willingly handover power to the Best of us.

The fact is, no single African country has experienced any form of in-house revolution, the closest to it has always been some form of uprising, or Civil war. Uprising, Protests, and war, mostly ends with negotiation, but revolution ends with a permanent solution. Activists can mobilize for a protest or instigate an uprising, but they always reach a compromise in their ideology. A revolution led based on a tabled ideology, mass organizing for a revolution, which may start as a protest, to the uprising, and total revolt that will change a system for good permanently.

Africans have always loved to be led by some kind of special Actors or Frontiers. Unlike in the days of slavery, even up to the 60s when you could not close both eyes to sleep as a Black man, anyone who took on the responsibility to lead a Revolution for Black people is mostly welcomed and rallied behind to lead. Revolutionary then comes in different forms, both in music & on the street. Reason why the likes of Bob Marley, Mariam Makeba, Fela Anikulapokuti, and many others were accepted among struggling people around the world mostly outside of Africa, those who have come to understand that has a being, if you want to make progress, the struggle must continue. These were of the generation who embraced THE STRUGGLE MUSIC AND STRUGGLE SOUND.

Unfortunately, an average African whose life has only revolved around struggling suddenly wants to make progress without struggling, they want Africa to suddenly become China, or Dubai without revolting. They choose to ignore the history of the Chinese revolution, and the 10-year revolution of the Saudi Arabians against their leaders that has led them to benefit from that struggle today.

After the ’60s, we lost the Revolutionary generation, Blacks all over the world stopped evolving and began exploring, looking for where to belong. In the late 90s, the fighting spirit finally died, the Integrationists won, and we begat a generation of skit makers, comedians, and online twerkers as mostly African best.

This is the reason this generation finds it difficult to welcome or applaud a Revolutionary like Sowore, or Julius Malema, or listen to songs of a Seun Kuti, Beautiful Nubia, a Femi Kuti, and their likes in the 21st century unlike in the 60s.

BY: OMOTADE ISAAC ADEKUNLE