Why there has not been a revolution in the DR Congo in the 21st Century?
What one can do is, first, to keep educating themselves. As you have read so far, it is difficult to realize what I have just mentioned without researching it because it is taught nowhere. We cannot expect to learn that from school, we have to put an effort into unlearning all the propaganda we have been fed with. Books are a good start because the truth is that we are not alone, a lot of our brothers and sisters and ancestors have realized too the flaws in the system and they have written about it. One needs just to look for them. There is a lot to learn out there from books, even suggestions for way-outs. And again, we should not expect to truly understand revolutionary texts from going school, we need to put an effort into analysing them. After that, we need to educate each other. Even if it may not be the most comfortable thing to do if a brother or sister is still brainwashed, it is our duty as a community to bring them home (Carmichael, 1971, p. 433)…
An Understanding of Settler Colonialism
However, in the case of South Africa, the native Africans were many (more than 70%), hence by uniting and gaining consciousness they became a greater threat to Boers. That is why in the early stages of the Apartheid, it was so important to create and maintain the Bantustan. They were small pieces of land, scattered in South Africa, where the native Africans were concentrated. Hence, it was not surprising that a leader supported by all native Africans would win any free election in which all the people were participating. Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that the structures and systems from the Apartheid are still affecting the native Africans. This is because the apartheid was overthrown only politically and not economically…