By KENNETH DUMBURA
The most painful part is to be at war and not realise or know that you are at war.
You can’t fight a successful war without clearly defining who your true friends are and who your true enemies are.
One must know the laws of war, like the laws governing all other things, are reflections in our minds of objective realities; everything outside of the mind is objective reality.
Consequently, what has to be learned and known includes the state of affairs on the enemy side and that on our side, both of which should be regarded as the object of study, while the mind (capacity to think) alone is the subject performing the study.
Some people are good at knowing themselves and poor at knowing their enemy, and some are the other way round; neither can solve the problem of learning and applying the laws of war.
There’s a saying in the book of Sun Wu Tzu, the great military scientist of ancient China, “Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat”, which refers both to the stage of learning and to the stage of application, both to knowing the laws of the development of objective reality and to deciding on our own action in accordance with these laws in order to overcome the enemy facing us. We should not take this saying lightly.
War is the highest form of struggle between nations, states, classes, or political groups, and all the laws of war are applied by warring nations, states, classes, or political groups for the purpose of achieving victory for themselves.
Unquestionably, victory or defeat in war is determined mainly by the military, political, economic and natural conditions on both sides. But not to be these alone. It is also determined by each side’s subjective ability in directing the war.
In his endeavour to win a war, a military man cannot overstep the limitations imposed by the material conditions; within these limitations, however, he can and must strive for victory.
The stage of action for a military man is built upon objective material condition, but on that stage he can direct the performance of many a drama, full of sound and colour, power and grandeur.
Truth is independent of one’s opinion & it is intolerant of error. Truth is inflammatory to those who fear it, change is subversive to oppressive order & justice is confrontational.
No one has a monopoly of the truth. Telling the truth isn’t determined by one’s political affiliation. Truth can walk naked, but a lie always needs to be dressed in beautiful.
Every aspect of a truthful message stimulates the conscience & request acknowledgement. The individual however, holds the key to accept or reject that message. Justice & truth are distant cousins who are sometimes not even on speaking terms.
Standing against the brutal might of the state the oppressed has one life to live, and with it, a fighting chance to attain fullest dignity or lose lives for the good of the cause that would see those left behind living less miserable lives.
For each freedom song sung the oppressors turned a deaf ear to the possibility of change that rang with determined clarity in the ears of the oppressed.
The disunity of African leaders caused the ushering in of Western and European imperialism on the soil of Mother AFRICA.
Now it is the choice of this noble generation to put an end to this form of imperialism/colonialism by having a continental revolution by all AFRICANS.
The African Revolution must be a one that will emancipate AFRICA by all AFRICANS and must be a revolution of poverty eradication from Africa.
No one will do it for us but ourselves. The opportunity is now to raise up for what our Ancestors fought for…
