“Great talents appear everywhere, whenever the social conditions favourable for their development exist” –AND what is left of the internationalism of the workers’ movement?” asked Frederick Engels of August Bebel.
Such tendencies were constructed upon the identification of issues and their articulation along the lines of critical scholarship and dialectical analysis based on Marxian doctrines and other derivations that veered off into Leninist perspectives, Maoist tendencies or Trotskyist constructs, etc., depending on the leanings of the intellectuals and their position vis-a-vis the politics of their countries.
This speech should serve to ignite a debate on the state of the progressive forces in Africa whose values once set the stage for the liberation of the continent and injection of respect into African politics. The liberation struggle in Africa is not over yet. It is a continuous process whose dimensions must be appreciated to exist beyond political freedoms or national self-determination.