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ZINASU celebrates Africa Day
Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU)
May 24, 2011

It has been many years, more than half a century since African scholar revolutionaries were inspired by the dream of reclaiming Africa's sovereignty and independence, some restoration of African dignity from the vicious jaws of a foreign system of oppression, but the ensuing decades after the liberation of the last African nation have been marked by the betrayal of these strides and internal struggles than onward progression, which has retarded pace.

Before Africa's national independence, the end of slavery; imperialism expressed itself in the growing white supremacist racist tendency across our continent and beyond as it also expatriated black Africans from motherland for exploitation in the Americas and Europe, but African scholar revolutionaries sought to start on a path of reconstruction and modernizing of African nationhood in the new reality of independence and liberty. People such as Leopold Senghor, Marcus Garvey, Haile Sellasie, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Joshua Nkomo, Josiah Tongogara, Chief Albert Luthuli, Samora Machel, Steve Biko among others, contributed over years, to the acceptance by the British Premier Harold Wilson to the South African Parliament in 1960 that winds of the black liberation change were strongly blowing across Africa and they were unstoppable.

After the reality of continental independence, there is need for Africa to continue to be on the move and it continues to progress into deeper thrusts of freedom as exhibited by the events in North Africa in 2011. Of note is that whereas the struggles of independence were led by some revolutionary chiefs like Albert Luthuli and Rekai Tangwena of Southern Africa plus spirit mediums like Nehanda of Zimbabwe, the workers and students are the torchbearers of the struggles of today since about half a century ago, which seek the consummation of their African dreams for liberty and dignified nationhood.

The most recent struggles of the workers and students in North Africa and Swaziland against the politicians need to be supported and augmented in a new matrix of continentalism for democracy and human rights the way the armed war liberation struggle solidarity gave birth to genuine pan-Africanism decades ago. The new struggles of the new millennium should be based on finding internal integrity in the soul of African dreams and inspirations for human advancement internationally where it is inscribed in the social, political and economic ambit of our sovereign nations, which are not yet free societies internally.

The struggles in North Africa which teemed with actual consensus of the governed that have been betrayed by shameless ruling classes who copied the previous oppressor Animal Farm-style, seeking to remove stagnation on the trajectory to full African individual liberty and dignity of all peoples on the continent are a tradition that should be entrenched rather than unlearned.

For indeed, the enemies of Africa are now more within its boundaries and original African society than outside; they are merchants of the national insecurities surrounding dictatorships, state plunder of national resources, uncurbed hunger and diseases, artificial division and sponsored violence, ethnic genocide and civil war, propaganda and anti-academic cults that disrupt the national visions of the peoples to make them believe in personalities cults, etc., because they cynically regard anti-colonism African liberation as the end in Africa's progress. This stagnation must be removed with students at the forefront!

ZINASU believes that the promotion of better education in Zimbabwe and on the African continent at large is at the heart of the promotion of the struggle of the African advancement vision as the earliest pan-Africanists had that vision. Vice versa, the destruction and plundering of our education systems and their new generation African beneficiaries to make them weaker than the private political institutions, some machineries of propaganda is the biggest disservice to the historic end to foreign Negro enslavement and African nationhood independence in the service of the transient interests of the African political saboteurs!

The above vices are happening in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Swaziland, Libya, etc. and they must be stopped! AFRICA IS FOREVER! MAYIBUYE UHURU!

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