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- September 20, 2026
The illusions of panafri-coupism and the urgent need for real revolutions in Africa.
by
*NubiaKemet & Maat Revolution*
BlackNation@nubiakemet.org
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Today’s pan-Africanists (“neo-pan-Africanists”) are the only revolutionaries in the world who endorse, love, celebrate and worship corrupt criminals in uniform who have oppressed, tortured, raped and slaughtered revolutionaries and populations for over 60 years to impose and maintain neo-colonial civilian elites in power and consolidate the interests of their Western imperialist and racist masters. Moreover, after orchestrating their palace revolution and seizing power, the military bourgeoisie fled the front line of the fight against the jihadists to hide in the capitals and palaces of their former employers. They then set up security fortresses and bunkers to protect themselves and their families, while the civilians are abandoned to the barbaric fury of the jihadists.
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The argument the neo-panafricoons put forward over and over again to justify their coupism syndrome is that the people would approve of coups d’état and support military putschists. But *if it’s true that the popular masses applaud coups d’état, that means they would have applauded real revolutions too*, right? And *if it’s true that the people support putschists, they would also have supported real revolutionaries*.
So the question is: why don’t pan-Africanists make real revolutions? The answer: because they’re too disorganized, too undisciplined, too lazy, too scared and too cowardly to organize and carry out a revolution. So the putschists allow them to make a kind of revolution by proxy. (Only in Africa and the Black Diaspora do people believe in this kind of nonsense).
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*By siding with the uniformed criminals who are overthrowing the regimes they have zealously served for decades, the panafri-fearful can continue to pass themselves off as s/heroes without having to pay the price of true revolutionary s/heroism*.
Indeed, the real revolution would have consisted in confronting and defeating the corrupt neo-colonial regimes in power, together with the criminal military and police who protect them and their Western imperialist puppeteers and masters. *There is no shortcut to revolution*. But that’s too much work and too much risk for the neo-panafricanists. So they have to use the false argument of peoples’ support for putschists to justify their support for and alliance with these reactionaries in uniform of brutality and crime.
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But as if this intellectual fraud and political opportunism weren’t enough, we’ve even seen and heard more and more of these neo-panafricanists claiming that it was they who installed the military in power. The fact that so many people believe the bullshit of these intellectual fakers and pan-African opportunists shows just how badly revolutionary consciousness has deteriorated in Africa in recent years.
In the face of such cynical misappropriations, it is important to re-establish the historical truth, and the truth is that none of the coups that have occurred in Africa in recent years were inspired and fomented by neo-Panafricanists! It has always been the military elites themselves who have taken the initiative when the civilian elites have restricted their advantages and privileges, or threatened to do so (as in Guinea and Niger), or when they have proved incapable of ensuring their security and privileges in the face of advancing jihadists, or of resolving contradictions with their imperialist masters in their favor (as in Mali and Burkina Faso). In fact, in the only country where the neo-Panafricanists have tried to play apprentice-putschist, it’s been a total failure, with hundreds of young people and children needlessly sacrificed. Indeed, the neo-Panafricans had led them to believe that if they demonstrated, the military would side with them and overthrow the regime. But when the pro-regime forces of disorder fired on the demonstrators, killing hundreds of them, the pro-putsch military did nothing to defend them.
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True African revolutionaries must therefore be reminded of a number of historical truths and Ancestral wisdoms, so that they do not allow themselves to be misled and distracted by the opportunistic agitation of the neo-Panafricoons and the cynical manipulations of their new putschist masters.
The first is that *there is no such thing as revolution by proxy. Either you make it yourself, or you shut up and hide in your hole of cowardice*.
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The second is that *“in the neo-colonial system, coups don’t bring you closer to revolution; on the contrary, they take you further away from it”*.
Indeed, putsches are nothing more than the symptoms and outcome of internal conflicts that pit the civilian neo-colonial elite against the military neo-colonial elite within the same corrupt, parasitic and reactionary ruling class that serves imperialism in Africa. If the putschist soldiery uses anti-imperialist rhetoric, it’s just opportunism and cynicism. With the help of panafricoon pseudo-revolutionaries, the military is using anti-imperialism and pan-Africanism to deceive and manipulate the people and win their support. Then, they will use the people as cannon fodder to win the class rivalry against the civilian elite, dissuade the imperialists from intervening in support of the latter, and delay as long as possible the foreseeable moment of their fall to the jihadists.
But *once the military putschists have neutralized their civilian rivals, not only will they never return power to the popular masses, worse still, they will take advantage of the current political confusion and do everything in their power to eliminate the true revolutionaries*. This applies both to those who were naïve or imprudent enough to support them (as shown by the case of the attempted elimination of the pan-African and left-wing Malian leader by the putschist junta in Mali) and to those who did not allow themselves to be manipulated by them (like the Sankara family and the true Sankarists in Burkina Faso). And once they’ve managed that, they’ll reconcile themselves with a new civil bourgeoisie, with the jihadists (whom they can’t defeat militarily, because they’re too inept for that) and the imperialists (whom they continue to adore and want to serve, despite their hypocritical, demagogic anti-imperialist rhetoric).
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Finally, as we saw in Sudan, when our brave people made it clear to the military that they no longer accepted their cynical manipulations and were no longer prepared to let them confiscate power and destroy their hopes for change, these criminals in uniform dropped their masks and went back to torturing, raping and massacring our Sisters, Brothers, Parents and Children as they had been doing for decades. And when the exacerbation of their internal contradictions led them to the situation where the only way for them to avoid destroying the country was to return power to the people, what did they do? They preferred to destroy the country rather than lose power. *Only panafricoon pseudo-revolutionaries are happy to have the people’s organic enemies exercise power in their place*.
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So what should real revolutionaries do in coup situations? Without going into all the details of revolutionary tactics in the context of the collapse of the neo-colonial state, here are a few tips for real revolutionaries:
8.1. First, intelligent revolutionaries understand that *everything that weakens the neo-colonial state and aggravates its crises must be exploited and amplified to accelerate its destruction*.
8.2. In the case of coups, this means that instead of supporting neo-colonial criminals in uniform against other neo-colonial criminals in civilian clothes, intelligent revolutionaries must at worst stay out of their internal conflicts, at best exacerbate and aggravate them to precipitate the total rupture between the two factions of this parasitic and criminal class, and if possible drive them to tear each other apart and kill each other irretrievably.
8.3. Once one of the factions emerges victorious from their internal struggles, revolutionaries must take advantage of the fact that it will be weakened to destroy it completely and mercilessly. Then, they must seize power to complete the revolution, and not commit the idiocy of leaving it or giving it to lawless and faithless tropical rambos… .
8.4. But, of course, to succeed in doing this, you must rely solely on your own strength, be intelligent, well-organized, methodical, disciplined, professional and hard-working, and have unshakeable faith in your own ability to defeat the external enemies of the African people and their local puppets.
*Panafri-putschism is the infantile disorder of the panafri-fearful and panafri-lazy*.
May the Ancestresses and Ancestors preserve Africa from the criminals in uniform and their panafri-putschist sycophants, and may they continue to inspire and bless true revolutionaries and guide them to final victory!
Ashe!
© *NubiaKemet & Maat Revolution*
29 August 2023
NB:
This is an extract and adaptation of the article _” Overcoming the Kati syndrome and putting an end to tropical rambophilia: the Illusions of panafri-putschism at the trial of Ancestral Revolutionary Wisdom”_, to be read in the book *”Revolution(s), not Transition(s)”*, to be published soon.
*Prologue (August 31, 2023):*
After writing these lines, we learned of a coup in Gabon. In a WhatsApp group of nearly 300 activists from the Continent and the Diaspora, we tried to calm the naïve enthusiasm of fellow panafri-putschists, as the Gabon case confirms our analyses in every respect. In response, one of them first insulted us, then threatened to kill us!
In the past, we’ve often been confronted with this kind of psychopathological reaction from pan-Africanists who had endorsed and supported Uncle Obama. This is how we came up with the concept of the *”Obama curse”* (or “Obama syndrome”, or “pan-Obamanism”) to characterize the attitude of the pan-Africanists who like to live in their political illusions, identify so strongly with their false heroes that any criticism of them is seen as a personal attack, and are ready to kill real revolutionaries to defend their illusions.
Afrika Yako!
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