In 2011, the country of Sudan split into two after a referendum. This resolution resulted in the creation of an additional country which is now known as South Sudan. The people of South Sudan felt deserted and hoped that those who led them against the regime in Khartoum would serve their interests. However, neither Sudan nor South Sudan have known peace since the secession. In fact, we have witnessed escalations and a greater suffering of our people in both countries.
The split by South Sudan consequently deprived Khartoum access to 85% of the oil that they previously had control over. This fragmentation caused damage that cannot be overlooked as the economic question is always central to matters of social cohesion and peace. Africa lacks peace mainly because we do not own and control our economy. The separation of Sudan means that the oil extracted in the south cannot easily be marketed through the already established export infrastructure in the north. This also means that both governments are forced to be at the mercy of outside forces in order to trade in oil and other commodities.
For decades Sudan has been plagued with unending wars that always lead to catastrophic humanitarian crises and the death of thousands. The forces in the South successfully fought to separate from the rest of Sudan, and now the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is calling for more divisions with its de facto secession of western Sudan through the control of Darfur. The question is, if western Sudan splits from the rest of the country, will our people in the region enjoy peace and prosperity? In order to find our answer let us look no further than what is now known as South Sudan—rich in oil yet our people continue to suffer.
As we speak, 14 million people have been displaced throughout Sudan. In western Sudan, two million people have been displaced with deaths reported at 200 000. African women, and children are the hardest hit by this crisis with famine, sexual violence and kidnappings hitting record highs. The lack of consideration for human life by the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) clearly shows that their government will not guarantee the wellbeing of our people in the region. The people cannot count on generals that are merely fighting for power, without an agenda to transform society and the lives of our people.
Throughout Africa—groups of people recognize that the colonial arrangement of borders does not serve them. It has been a known fact that the borders were drawn without regard for ethnic, and economic affinities. Many of the borders cut through homogeneous communities that speak the same languages and share a common history. For example, the people in Botswana speak an official language of South Africa, the same with Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique. This trend is also evident in East, Central, West and North Africa.
Coupled with this partitioning of Africa is the colonial policy of placing certain groups as custodians of the parasitic administration and economy, with an advantage over other groups. This contradiction has led to the development of movements seeking for the secession of what they consider to be their oppressed “nations.”
In Morocco, the Sarawahi want independence, in Somalia, the Solamliland; Nigeria, Biafra; Zimbabwe, the Matebeleland; and within Sudan, the British placed the Arab wannabe Africans to facilitate the neo-colonial administration of the country at the expense of other ethnic groups.
The solution to the problems of Africa is in the unification of our continent and nation, but our enemies want us to move in the opposite direction. This should not surprise us because imperialism is always reactionary–they do not want Africa to advance and move forward. This is the reason they invent and spread diseases throughout our motherland, and it also explains the unending wars that they sponsor in many parts of Africa–especially Sudan.
With the unification of Africa, the African working class will no longer be divided and weakened as a social force. The neo-colonial demagogues and tyrants will not be able to frighten our people with terror and false assumptions of one ethnic group being the enemy of another. Africans will have access to the vast wealth of our continent expressed in the form of minerals, vegetation, fertile soil, energy from the tropical sun, rivers and other conventional and non-conventional sources.
Skills possessed by Africans will no longer be stifled, or stolen to advance our historical enemies, but instead will be used to solve problems of Africa and Africans. As Chairman Omali Yeshitela puts it, “Liberation under the leadership of African Internationalist-informed workers, organized in the African People’s Socialist Party will mean the end of economic exploitation and once the imperialists and the petty bourgeois neocolonialist have been crushed, the end of all exploitation”.
The African People’s Socialist Party, expressed globally as the African Socialist International, is actively working towards a liberated and unified Africa. As of April 2026 the Party has established presence in South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Benin and indeed South Sudan. Our slogan is One Africa, One Nation! All Africans must join in the conscious effort to build an Africa rid of senseless wars, poverty, diseases, and the fog of hopelessness that clouds our imagination.
African liberation and unification in our lifetime!
