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A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara by Amber Murrey (2018).
"Burkina Faso was previously called Upper Volta, one of the regions of French colonial plunder and exploitation in Africa", (Murrey, 2018).
"Size was not a barrier in the fight for freedom", (Murrey, 2018).
The colonial system depends on reinforcing the idea of African inferiority, (Murrey, 2018).
The conditions of exploitation ate common throughout Africa, (Murrey, 2018).
"Africa did not need aid, but rather a return of its stolen assets", (Murrey, 2018).
So there's a one year gap between Sankara's death and Samora's death.
"Imperialism remains aware of the ultimate power radicalized soldiery within the movement of a radicalized population", (Murrey, 2018).
"To wear the Faso Dan Fani is an economic, cultural and political challenge to imperialism", (Murrey, 2018).
Is Blaise Compaore still alive ?
"Becoming non-partriarchial is the necessary process by which men will become human", (Murrey, 2018).
How are things going for Citizen Broom?
"You don't get involved in a struggle alongside the popular masses in order to become head of state", (Murrey, 2018).
"Without a real African education, we have no hope", (Murrey, 2018).
"A soldier without political and ideological training and background is a potential criminal", (Murrey, 2018).
"Ideologies are systems of beliefs that serve as a standard of evaluation and guide to action", (Murrey, 2018).
"The populism of the government attracted and sustained popular support for the aspirations of the revolution", (Murrey, 2018).
It was too dark of Sankara to call his wife a widow whilst he was still alive.
"Reagan administration also fought hairs against the African National Congress in giving full support to the apartheid regime in South Africa", (Murrey, 2018). @MYANC
"Africa needs not just l3ss government that concentrates its efforts less on direct intervention and more on enabling others to be productive", (Murrey, 2018).
"Colonialism and its derivatives do not as a matter of fact constitute the present enemies of Africa", (Murrey, 2018).
"The great danger that threatens Africa is the absence of ideology", (Murrey, 2018).
"There is no revolutionary movement that is pure, in fact a condition of a committed and serious revolutionary is the lack of purity", (Murrey, 2018)..
"The proletariat constitutes the true revolutionary force capable of driving the revolution to triumph", (Murrey, 2018).
So Sankara had a problem with trade unions?
"Rulers dominate, govern states as personal businesses and ate not accountable to people", (Murrey, 2018).
"We must be conscious of our weaknesses", (Murrey, 2018).
"Freedom for sincere men should not mean freedom for dishonest men", (Murrey, 2018)..
The multiparty system is not revolutionary enough, it is just a lure that reinforces the misery if the population and the neoclassical dependence of a country, (Murrey, 2018).
So the assassination of Sankara was an order from France.
"Sankara waa killed in an agreement that Burkina and Libya would help Charles Taylor and his men size power in Liberia", (Murrey, 2018)..
"Don't worry, Sankara is just a boy. He will mature quickly", (Murrey, 2018).
"The Americans did not like Sankara, he talked about putting in public ownership the country's resources for the benefit of the people actually he waa socialist and they decided to get rid of him", (Murrey, 2018).
"Charles Taylor waa tasked to infiltrate African revolutionary movements", (Murrey, 2018).
It will seem were whites at involved to destabilise, they quickly create commissions like TRC's to confuse the native, (Murrey, 2018).
"Then CIA and the French intelligence services decided to get rid traits", (Murrey, 2018).
Puppet governments are known for the following things, they cut spending for health and education or increase export on raw materials, (Murrey, 2018).
20 000 000 US dollars is reaped out of low income countries to rich countries in the name of debt servicing and repayment, (Murrey, 2018).
"The norm of imperialism is to expand and its morality is to maximise profit everywhere", (Murrey, 2018).
"The export of capital and the subordination of foreign lands are demanded by the contradictions of capitalism which set severe limits on domestic accumulation", (Murrey, 2018).
"Debt has all the outward trappings of imperialism", (Murrey, 2018).
"Welfare and aid policies have only ended up disorganising us, subjugating us and robbing us of a sense of responsibility for our own economic, political and cultural affairs", (Murrey, 2018).
"As consciousness grows the effort of the benefactors of an exploitative system also intensifies", (Murrey, 2018).
"In Madagascar over ten thousand people died because the money meant for malaria treatment was swapped for debt settlement", (Murrey, 2018)..
"Corruption is often encouraged and natured by imperialism and neocolonialism", (Murrey, 2018).
"The west spreads patriarchy as a preventative measure against its own implosion", (Murrey, 2018).
"Politics is a lucrative business for personal aggrandizement and not service and collaboration with the population", (Murrey, 2018).
"It is not that it is wrong to educate children abroad: the problem is failing to address educational injustices domestically", (Murrey, 2018)..
"If the mind is conquered, emancipation is implausible", (Murrey, 2018).
"Ownership meant individual sacrifice for collective progress", (Murrey, 2018).
"Cuts in public spending and the privatisation of state owned firms resulted in increased unemployment and decreased wage levels", (Murrey, 2018). #WageBill.
"At least 95% if the world's landmass and people have been colonised by Europe at one time", (Murrey, 2018).
"The map of Africa that exists today is largely a legacy of nineteenth century colonialism", (Murrey, 2018)..
What is Morocco doing to Western Sahara?
"One major way to control a people and their culture is to dominate their economy", (Murrey, 2018).
Haibo Morocco is practicing colonialism there by Western Sahara!
If we are to be honest Total is a token if colonialism that must be demolished or say it must play far away from African Oil.
When clowns of individualism tell you about nobody owes you anything when it comes to governance, first tell them Chang argues: "The state is the main driver and guide for economic development", (Murrey, 2018). Then go on and tell them they must read.
If Cuba had deep pockets it will do more for Africans medically.
"Morocco continues to colonize Western Sahara, while the United States and other European nations continue to colonize our minds", (Murrey, 2018).
Did archbishop Desmond Tutu coin the term 'The Rainbow Nation' ?
Neoliberal economic policies that have been adopted by the ANC government over the years have entrenched inequalities and poverty by creating a policy environment that has generally favoured the privatisation of basic services, thus hitting the poor the most, (Murrey, 2018).
#RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall were calling for the decolonisation if universities, the removal if symbols of oppression and colonialism from campus, a revision of the curriculum and a re-imagination of intellectual life in post-apartheid South Africa campuses, (Murrey, 2018?.
"Africa remains economically enslaved to Western neoliberal capitalism", (Murrey, 2018).
"Independence that Africa celebrates is a myth", (Murrey, 2018)..
"There are still many among us who take foreign norms as their point of reference in judging the quality of their social, economic and cultural lives", (Murrey, 2018).
"The entire system that Mandela inherited had been designed largely to serve white interest", (Murrey, 2018).
"For the National Party, they conceded political power, but largely retained economic power while for ANC leadership concession involved moving away from radical policies and aims that antagonize business", (Murrey, 2018).
A market oriented solution GEAR is one of the key neoliberal policies, (Murrey, 2018).
Pimping the best among us, with girls and prestige has been our weakness been and then. I think Compoare was to shortsighted to see external force long game.
"Contemporary history shows that countries that try to resist the dominance of major global superpowers are subject to thorough destabilization attempts, including military aggression", (Murrey, 2018).
"Cultural domination is more flexible, more effective, less costly... to overturn the Burkinabe regime... You just need to forbid the import of Champaign, lipstick and nail polish", (Murrey, 2018).
When Sankara increased Burkina Faso's literacy domestically he was challenging the narrative we of Reagan of "There is no alternative".
"Sankara's administration nationalised land and leased it out with preference for rural subsistence and other local products", (Murrey 2018).
Are yt people cooking lies or Qaddafi has a hand here: " The fact that Qaddafi quickly became a strong ally of Compaore and perhaps even encouraged Compaore to murder Sankara in order to pave way for Charle's Taylor's invasion of Liberia", (Murrey, 2018).
Besides the huffing and puffing Cuba continues to lead in sending medical help to Africa.
If Sankara was alive and implemented this: "Traditional chiefs were denied payments and the system of obligatory Labour for peasants was discontinued", (Murrey, 2018). In a country like South Africa bekuzonyiwa.
"The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house", (Murrey, 2018).
"It is both necessary and urgent that out trained personal and those who work with the pen learn that there is no such thing as neutral writing", (Murrey, 2018)..
"Patriarchy has no gender", (Murrey, 2018).
"The status of women will improve only with the elimination of 5he system that exploits them", (Murrey, 2018).
"In capitalistic partriachy, femininity embodies the less socially valued traits of weakness, positivity, receotiveness, emotions, nurturing and subordination", (Murrey, 2018).
"When culture is based on a domestic model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as a power struggle", (Murrey, 2018).
Even Sankara's economic growth was impressive, your IMF and World Bank were found shaking.
"You can kill revolutionaries. You cannot kill ideas", (Murrey, 2018).
"You cannot free slaves who are not conscious of registration if slavery", (Murrey, 2018).
"It is not morally or politically right and it cannot be acceptable that mother's die giving life", (Murrey, 2018).
It is a Pan Africanist idea to have open borders.
Gaddafi's politics was problematic, he had this Arab superiority complex.
"With borders a country is able to maintain its economic activity and see things clearly", (Murrey, 2018).
"While the majority of Africans are of negriod origin, it is not true historically, factually or Even politically that blackness is the only condition of Africaness", (Murrey, 2018).
"In the era of neo-liberal individualism and free market, it is often seen as outmoded to think in revolutionary ways", (Murrey, 2018).
"A people centred internationalism and Pan-Africanism remains vital to the liberation struggle from exploitation", (Murrey, 2018).
"It is for women themselves to put forward their demands and mobilise to win them", (Murrey, 2018).
"Prostitution us a concentrated, tragic and painful summary of female slavery in all its forms", (Murrey, 2018).
"We cannot repay the debt because it is not our responsibilty", (Murrey, 2018).
"Those who lend us money are the same people who colonised, extracted, exploited and mismanaged our resources", (Murrey, 2018).
Notice IMF loans are given to dictators, kleptocrats and anti people governments.
Does Apartheid still exist?
"The Marikana massacre exposed the economic interest of the ANC leadership and broadly the state though violent collusion with capital ", (Murrey, 2018).
"South Africa is still operating within the colonial matrix of power", (Murrey 2018).
"Africa is facing a leadership crises", (Murrey, 2018).
"It is my generation who will change things rainbow generation that resists", (Murrey, 2018)..
"Without practical training for teachers, this 'aid' is useless", (Murrey, 2018).
"Political elites are aware that memories are important in attaining and maintaining political power and political legitimacy", (Murrey, 2018)..
