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THE RISE OF PANAFRICANISM IN AFRICA/ZAMBIA, THE RISE OF Dr. FRED M’MEMBE AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY.

By: Lazarous C. Bwalya

In 2021 the Zambian people voted against lawlessness and corruption because the two vices had grown to unfathomable highs during the PF regime. The Zambian people simply got fade up with the arrogance of the PF leadership as they paid a blind eye towards rampant corruption and lawlessness within their ranks. And because of that the Zambian people (mostly youths) armed themselves with their voters cards and litterary hounded the Patriotic Front party out of power.
It will however be very naive for the ruling UPND government to think that simply sorting the two vices that lead to the demise of the once mighty PF, guarantees them victory in 2026.
Especially if the emerging and growing political trend in Africa continues then Africa and Zambia in particular is about to witness a Panafrican revolution in the coming elections.
Africa is currently witnessing a sharp rise in in bold and courageous young thinkers who are starting to question Africa's political and economic relations with the rest of world and why these relations have perpetually benefited the rest of the world and never Africa.
This new generation of youthful thinkers is waking up to the reality that Africa needs to formulate a new political, social and economic direction in order for Africa to have a bargaining sit at the high table.
This growing number of youths is aware that we need a new political and economic agenda in Africa, an agenda lead by well meaning panafrican leaders and not an agenda lead by the IMF, the EU, the US or China but one lead by Africans for Africa.
This new generation of youths is equally alive to the fact that to formulate this agenda Africa is going to need unity of purpose both politically and economically. It is therefore with this unity of purpose that youths across Zambia are joining a global confederacy of Africans and persons of African decent in the panafrican movement to politically, socially and economically emancipate Africa and it's people.

IS ZAMBIA ON BOARD THE PANAFRICAN AGENDA

The fall of colonialism gave birth to a class of post colonialism politicians that took power with a promise to hand it over back to the indigenous population, only to turn around and use that same power to plunder our land's natural resources for their own benefit and to a larger extent to the benefit of our former colonial masters instead of the African masses.
This class of politicians has ruled Africa for over five decades but their rule is slowly coming to an end and Africans with Zambians in particular slowly getting tired of neo colonialism capitalist governments that have previously taken a tendency of fooling voters with the promise of economic liberation only to end up falling into the hands of neo colonialist entities such as the IMF and multinational conglomerates such as Vedanta.
The question therefore is not whether Zambian youths are on board the panafrican agenda, that ship already sailed, the real question is why..... why are Zambians and in this case mostly Zambian youths shunning the capitalist way and joining the socialist panafrican movement.
There're a lot of reasons why Africa and Zambia in particular is steadily leaning towards a socialist/pan Africanist type of political leadership but chief among them is the fact that capitalism has so far only placed Africa/Zambia at the bottom of the economic food chain begging for donor aid when we actually produce a big chunk of the resources that drive the world economy.
Zambians are tired of seeing their natural resources exploited by the very hands that colonised and stole from their land while they suffer at the hands of a stressed economy that is heavily reliant on donor aid. We are tired of not having a say at the high table on the ever increasing cost of food and fuel, and we are tired of leaders who continue to look to the west for solutions when Zambian/African solutions are right here at home with our resources (both human and natural). All we need is the right political leadership, political boldness and will and the right pro Zambian social and economic policies.
Fellow countrymen and women it is at this point that comrade Fred M'membe and the Socialist Party come in with very bold pro poor panafrican social and economic policies that finally look like the solution to our nation's decades long social and economic conundrum.
Dr Fred M'membe the tactical politician that he is has been slowly but tactically building a team of smart vibrant panafrican youths lead by the Socialist Party’s national youth chairman comrade Kelvin Kaunda who has been training and building an influential socialist party youth structure that might just usher in a revolutionary first pro poor/working-class Socialist Zambian government. A government that promises to bring wealth creation and the running of state affairs under the democratic control and ownership of the Zambian working-class masses.
Zambians are beginning to realise that Zambia's economic challenges are not born of the Zambian people's ignorance or lack of education, they are a product of unholy marriages that always take place between our politicians and neo-colonialist organisations such as the IMF that impose debt trap policies on our leaders.
So while the Zambian people voted for the rule of law in 2021, in 2026 the narrative is bound to be very different as the Zambian people demand economic emancipation from western entities, as the Zambian people demand for their natural resources and economy to be returned back into their hands.
In 2026 Zambia might just look to Fred M'membe and the Socialist Party for a better Zambia.