Among African people, there is too much talking, analysis, and theory of the issues plaguing Africa and what will move it forward. It is wearisome, because it is evident people are not prepared for real vigorous action on ground. All grand ideas and extended analysis remain just words on the internet.
Imagine a group of farmers experiencing famine who gather to analyze the issues of the soil, pontificate about the wind pressure, and enthuse about best practices for planting and yielding the best crops. They feel good, beating their chest with empty pride. But do you know the whole time the soil is unchanged, and the farmers and their families will all eventually perish from hunger… unless they physically ACT.
Africa is the same. Too many Africans are consumed with social media presence, influencing, sounding smart, analysis, publications… meanwhile conditions on ground keep deteriorating. Unlike comfortable analysis, the real action on ground to bring change will be hard, messy, relentless, and a fearsome struggle. There will be heavy costs.
Too much education has convinced an entire generation of Africans that change will follow a “clean sequential democratic method”. But the truth on ground says otherwise.
Let us drop the act and speak frankly: without the physical action of a severe struggle there is no way most African countries will change. Tactically coordinated social upheaval is the pressure that will force a comprehensive reset. All this careful and actionless talking with soft words and curated internet statements will change nothing in Africa.
The qualities that are urgently needed to initiate a reset toward vigorous African nation-building are what I call “revolutionary thunderhawks” who operate with noble aggression and righteous fearsomeness.
There is too much big language and thousandfold academic analysis among Africans today. Yes, careful analysis is necessary and has a time and place, but we have overdosed and gone too far. Using it as a crutch to avoid action.
Now more than ever it is time for action. As I often say we need people in Africa “whose bones are rattling for action”. To take ownership of Africa through a noble struggle that, setting the foundation for aggressive African nation-building, will initiate the next developmental epoch in Africa for the welfare and progress of the African people.
Onward & Upward!
~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
JD Candidate ‘25
Builder of the African Future
Nation Upbuilding 