It is emotionally self-fulfilling to blame the enemy and agents’ provocateurs for the terrible state of pan Africanist organisations worldwide. It is equally emotive to read pieces of work that attribute underperformance of African people oriented organizations to adverse external factors. However these analyses do not cover all the drawbacks and are therefore incomplete. It is easy to blame everyone else for one’s failures where there is lack of serious self introspection. This unhelpful propaganda or limited analysis prevents us from tackling impediments that are hindering successful execution of revolutionary tasks bestowed on us by history.
On the other hand, there is no doubt that Pan Africanism being diametrically opposed to imperialism will be targeted by imperialist forces who will naturally mobilize vast resources to destroy Pan Africanist movements in defence of their interests. There is no question about the seriousness of threats presented by external forces to any organisation advancing African people’s interests for economic independence, self reliance and national self determination. It is nevertheless the supreme duty of revolutionaries to protect and defend revolutionary movements from enemy attacks by building unassailable and incorruptible political institutions.
Pan Africanists have not applied themselves to holistic institutional development of their organisations. Neglecting institutional growth has made Pan Africanist organisations superior on economic and social analysis but highly underdeveloped in developing the necessary capacity to create and sustain a desired social order
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