A Brief Look at the Role of Technology in the African Liberation Struggle

Presidents Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou Toure have left us a wealth of understanding useful in the proper deployment of technology in our struggle.

When the political circumstances (i.e. the achievement of Pan-Africanism) allow it, we can use technological areas such as those associated with cybernetics (particularly in applied areas such as telematics, command and control systems, and similar cybernetic applications) to further enhance the strength of our state, culture and people

The following two quotes are examples:

"The imperialists utilize cultural, scientific, technical, economic, literary and moral values to justify and maintain their regimes of exploitation and oppression. Oppressed people, on the other hand, utilize cultural values of a nature contrary to that of the imperialists, with the aims of better combating imperialism and escaping the colonial regime.

If scientific knowledge, modern techniques and the elevation of the mind to the level of superior human principles, to a perfect social life, are necessary for the enrichment of a culture, they do not conserve any less the faculty of their utilization to contradictory ends. "

The African Elite in the Anti-Colonial Struggle, Ahmed Sekou Toure

"Economically and industrially Europe and the USA are ready and poised for socialism. There are the necessary material ingredients which could make socialism possible overnight. In the USA when automation and cybernation aided by nuclear energy reach their highest form of development, the forces of production will have been developed to a point at which there could be the classless society which Marx predicted could come only under communism. But although the USA is at present one of the most affluent and industrialized countries in the world, it is at the same time one of the most socially and politically backward."