1. The Power of Love

Love is a doing word. It is never an inactive emotion. Love’s power is always in action and work; it is in responding with ability and creating with meticulous care.

In all dimensions of life, we often underestimate the power of love. Be it in business, politics, social struggle, or social justice. You know why? It is, in part, because we think that only facts and evidence impel informed action. We are indoctrinated to believe that without evidence there can be no rational or informed action. In other words, that evidence alone enables rational action. Having immersed ourselves in this partially true assumption, we then get confused and angry that, after presenting copious amounts of evidence, the people or market are not responsive. In our ideological immaturity, we start scapegoating or abusing the people and/or the market for lacking commonsense, taste, a sense of urgency (or agency), and discernment.
Look, people are cognitive, emotive, and spiritual beings who reside in a physical body. You have to learn to move or motivate them in all 3 dimensions of their being. They reason through certain things and feel through others. Connect with them holistically.

2. Tragedy and Victimhood as Motivation?

In social justice and political spaces , people merchandise suffering and tragedy as the premises of their leadership legitimacy. Something along these lines, “I suffered the most, and therefore I have the natural or divine right to govern or rule” . As a result, the ridiculous political beauty pageantry of victimhood now dominates the spaces and places of the leadership search. Only the wounded, hurt , broken, and victimised have legitimacy. Those who never suffered – no matter how skilled or competent to lead – are treated with suspicion. Having experienced ill-treatment and some suffering myself, I can see how this trend replicates a path that led Africa to a capture by a liberator generation that assumed a divine right to rule because they had liberated us . Liberation contributions as the excuse or justification of autocratic Kleptocracy? Everyone must reject the reincarnation of this ideological aberration.

3. Normalisation of the Abnormal

It is not only tragedy, pain , loss , and pressure that move people to fight for freedom and against oppression , to innovate to solve their social and economic conditions. It is possible for oppressed people to normalise their abnormal situation of oppression using spiritualism or such other false consciousness.

4. Genuine Freedom is the outcome of love for self, for country, for continent, and for humanity.
Love is a necessary precondition of transformative revolution. It is the best lens for defining just causes. Always ask yourself, “What do I love so much that I am willing to fight for ?” This could be something that you love about yourself, your community, your country, and your continent. Something that you are passionate about, care about and value most?
Have a clear mental picture of the things that you value . Analyse the systems, people, and interests threatening to erode or destroy these. Build the moral outrage and political consciousness to fight for what you love and value. Don’t only fight from a point of outrage without first developing a transformational strategy for battle. Lest after you have defeated the destroyers of what you value and love, you only achieve the creation of a more destructive moral, political, and economic vacuum or renewed quo.Use your strategy to develop tactics and a narrative. Tell stories that inspire others with hope and courage to join the cause

5. The Pitfall of Anger as the Cause
Excessive anger at a person, group, or system can consume common sense. Avoid being driven by anger; it can blind you to both danger and opportunity. Anger is always momentary; true transformation is love in action.