‘You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of
madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn
your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future.
Besides, it took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with
extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen!’
These famous words of Captain Thomas Noel Isidore Sankara, President of
Burkina Faso, best capture the spirit of the African revolutionary
tradition: The courage to invent the future. Nonconformity. Radical
organising. Confronting unjust power.
Mapinduzi is Swahili for Revolution; if you like, the “madness” that is essential to bring about fundamental change.
The objective of a true revolutionary is not to find a comfortable place
within an unjust order. Or to hope that fundamental change will come
about some day through a miracle or the rise of a redeemer. A true
revolutionary thinks, works, suffers, sacrifices to destroy the unjust
order so that all people may fully enjoy a dignified life. It is a
radical commitment.
Fahamu has launched the Mapinduzi Afrika Mailing List for progressive
individuals and groups throughout the pan-African world – for Africa is a
global reality - to share their thoughts, experiences, events,
strategies, struggles, opportunities, activities and updates in the
ongoing efforts to destroy entrenched oppressive, anti-people systems.
This is an open forum. We hope that through this forum, individuals and
movements in the pan-African world will be able to connect, share, dream
and learn from one another to amplify the struggles for social justice –
so that we can liberate ourselves from all forms of oppression. So that
we can truly be free!
Viva Afrika!
Submit emails for addition to the Mapinduzi Afrika Mailing List to roy@fahamu.org or henry@fahamu.org
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Commentary and analysis to persuade people to become socialist and to act for themselves, organizing democratically and without leaders, to bring about a world of common ownership and free access. We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. We are not reformists with a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.
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