Afrikan Liberation Day 2026
Another year and here we are again celebrating Afrikan liberation as a goal, not an accomplishment. By now the Afrikan Liberation Day celebration should have advanced to a concrete context, but Black People, Afrikan people on the Afrikan continent and in other parts of the world, are so absorbed in maintaining the anti-Afrikan white power context that they don't have the time to make Afrikan Liberation Day more than a distant dream. But it is exactly those Afrikans who are maintaining white power that we must wait for because those of us who want Afrikan liberation today are clearly not capable of making Afrikan liberation a reality. What a gut punch it is to face up to the unpleasant truth that Afrikan liberation is farther away from being realized now than it was 60 years ago. Leadership on the Afrikan continent seems to be more pro white power than it ever was, and the back to Afrika proponents in the diaspora don't seem inclined to do what they encourage other Blacks to do-- return to the motherland. That the energy needed to make Afrikan liberation a reality is not present among those who don't care about Afrika's liberation is understandable, but the fact that those who want Afrikan liberation haven't been able to generate the necessary energy for more than 60 years can only mean that they are supporting white power just as much as those who don't care about Afrikan liberation. Afrikan liberation has become a pipe dream, and those who promote Afrikan Liberation Day while failing to make personal changes that will facilitate Afrika's liberation are serving the same purpose as those who don't care about Afrika's liberation. Afrikan liberation, like one of its Black nationalist counterparts, the Republic of New Afrika, is in the hands of inepts and pussycats. Until some real warriors take center stage, a yawn will draw a bigger reaction than a call in celebration of Afrikan liberation. |