Radicalization of an Individual & Radicalism of the Individual

Radicalization of an Individual & Radicalism of the Individual

Sam Mwaka-karama

Long, long before everyone was born to what is now ‘Intellectual knowledge’ – especially here in Africa – the British among the developed, had long since formulated the thinking of how to isolate and, victimize an individual.

The philosophy in this conceptualization assumes, actually rather wrongly, that once isolated the individual victim of the process of radicalization – will [always] mentally plunge into the abysmal characteristic of despair and degeneration. Moreover, cut-off thus, from his normal path in life, the individual begins exhibiting unfriendly… even abusive temperament.

How is this so? In the first concept, the victim is a subject of study among a malicious group of either peers or even just plain stigmatizing haters! The practice in radicalizing the individual is formulated in such a way that the victim individual finds himself the subject of ‘practical jokes’… as in palaver.

Be like – you are walking down the street. Perhaps you are bypassing a coffee shop with an apt name like; [(Bamboo) Bicycle Café] in your home town – like mine is Gulu in Northern Uganda. Or even the Abyssinian [chronicle] café.

Suddenly, as you walk-by – a shower of raucous laughter washes after you accompanied by a single clapping of the palms.

It is familiar – more like some common music played on some Fm Radio station all the time – you don’t even bother to look over your shoulder. It is a group of white skinned people. Yah! You always know they hail from the white man countries abroad – an assortment of either trotters, research students or other individual interest travelers – actual NGO workers and group tourists do not behave like that. You, yet again ignore the ‘virus’ load in their loud conversations.

The overly manifested intellectual malaise is actually the ways and means by which [you] the individual is being radicalized – the well-honed technique is supposedly guaranteed to yield a result! In that you the victim would (as in will…) most certainly turn back and annoyed or more appropriately mad! Hurl back a barrage of vile insults in your own mother tongue – or something.

NOW provoked – the real Men would get-up and, the security personnel nearby would be signaled to deal with you – actually [you] are insulting tourism! Because the lunatic you are, you were heard and seen insulting white skinned men and women who were quietly cooling their tired day, taking [their evening coffee] – so you are a disgrace to your country and people. So thus, radicalized by this well-honed intellectual strategy, you were dumped in jail!

This rather desolate battlefield has seen many an African of the writing ethics… ruined! Once you were identified with short-fused temperament, as researched among your kinship, [you] were considered the easy prey! Therefore, the game begins. I don’t have to name anybody, but history has it that many well renowned African writers of very high educational qualifications have been victims in this trade!

Some African political leaders equally, have been molested by this factor – if some leaders were short-fused, at least one might have been heard shouting back [fake news – fuck you]. Such a leader knows the cocoon of ‘supremacists’ malaise.

But then a TALANTA is a TALANTA… what they, the Supremes imagine were their own spirituality guarded fields of inspirations – have been seal-broken. ‘The New, New World Economic Order’ is founded, on the predictions of the version. The analog Millennium is by-gone! And now 17 years into the digital Millennium – it might be vain actually, to still play clearly outdated games of malice.  

Contemporary Africa, in this digital millennium – may have bypassed their way into working directly with heavy weight American or British or indeed European companies and institutions. This is a point of raw challenge to other more ordinary intellects in those countries… but then it is the path!

Africans are hooked to the European and British football betting mania… how do you [a supremacist] stop those betting millions make and willingly lose money on that International Soccer Industry?

You want an African self made and published Author – drop out of that online book publishing and marketing American company, so that you [the supremacist] gain what?

Don’t you see that one way or the other – the individual you want very much to radicalize – is more and more a real or potential significant unit in the income of those who create such online companies?

 In addition, don’t you see that, your radicalization of the individual - no longer exists; What Ngugi or Wole, or P’Bitek lost as misappropriated by the old African writers’ series are now a bygone.

In that [maybe] they did not produce their work by their own hands [Dictaphones and secretary typewriters etcetera…] – that was different from today’s method of manuscript development and production […S3] or [PhD] we all now have the laptops, Hi Pads and Modems. Add that to a smart phone and, you, the supremacist, might never know how the modern African make his “Smart Money”. Why don’t you stop victimization and radicalization? The old game is up!

Even bad as it were, ‘Radicalism of the Individual’ is, as well bygone – those who made themselves radicals and changed governments – might not ever commonly recur! And, not very many people in Africa want to walk that jungle anymore anyway. Only national mayhem makers of anarchy.***