I greet you all. My name is Mthoko Mpofana. I'm from South Africa in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
There are many political ideologies in the modern world which may or may not work depending on the land that they are employed in. I know of people that did study politics in their tertiary studies & I am not one of them. My only political involvement has only ever been on social media. Being that I am new to politics, fairly young & did not study politics for my tertiary education - I should not be an advisor on political matters to any logical person but I do a lot of research on many topics & one topic I do research on is politics. Local politics & global politics.
A little on my identity & heritage: I am of the Mpofana clan which resides in the province of KwaZulu-Natal & I do identify as Zulu. Even though there are people who hate the Zulu identity & hate the fact that we keep trying to develop Zulu systems to be on a level where the Zulu nation could be self-determining, we keep doing it because we enjoy doing it & feel duty-bound to do so. Also, above all, I am an African (a citizen of the KwaTu continent).
"Modernisation is not Westernisation." - Nanjira Sambuli
In Africa, we have a history of colonisation that has scarred us almost irreparably & to the extent that we can't seem to stop talking about it. But we have never thought of what we should do to solve this problem once & for all. Full decolonisation seems to be met with opposition by those who benefit from colonial systems & those outside the continent who do not wish to see African emancipation for whatever reason.
So what could we do if we truly wanted decolonisation of our lands to end the effects of this horrid part of our history?
The Berlin Conference of 1884 is said to be one defining point in the colonisation of Africa. The Berlin Conference was said to be where European leaders sat in a room & decided how to divide the African continent amongst themselves. This caused many problems which are still present today because before colonisation & the Berlin Conference, Africans lived in independent, sovereign & self-determining tribes, clans & nations. Now, Africans (KwaTuans) are either separated by a fabricated border from the rest of their clan & territory or forced into a country with tribes & nations that were not theirs. Fortunately, many people on the African continent, KwaTu, still live in the place of their heritage & ethnic origin so I assume it wouldn't be as difficult as we think to simply redraw borders & for this we'd need to form secessionist movements where the region claimed by a secessionist movement would have to do a referendum on their independence or, if we want to do a top-down approach; we ask the traditional authorities or kings, chiefs & tribal leaders of Africa to form a sort of Royal African Union where they'd counter the outcomes of the infamous Berlin Conference by repartitioning Africa by it's "original" borders before the arrival of Europeans. This could result in less ethnic conflict, more unity within a land & more national pride in a land.
There is a reason why after the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, lands were divided by ethnic groups. True nation-states or ethnostates are stable, governable & usually exist in relative peace when compared to multinational lands or countries of diverse races & ethnicities.
Yes, in Africa we have hundreds of separate ethnicities. I'm not proposing that each ethnicity get it's own country but perhaps divide regions by African language family groups. For example, there are many Songhay Empire tribal regions but they either speak the same language & share similar cultural practices so they could form a nation-state that way. This could be the commencement of the Africa of our dreams & I know there's a nationalist in all of us that wants our group to do better so I have no doubt that we would succeed in our ethnostates. We'd allow foreigners as long as they follow our tribal laws &, finally, create respectable institutions in the eyes of other Africans & the world.
For those who are unfamiliar to my writings, I use the name KwaTu for Africa because it incorporates the most spoken languages of Africa to form a descriptive word for Africa. KwaTu, simply means "land of the people". I suggest all who share my vision start discussion groups whether online or in their community to discuss how they would go about governing themselves in their nation-state should they obtain independence in their independence referendum. Thank you.