Booker Omole Ignites Revolutionary Fire at 62nd African Liberation Day
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By John Kariuki
Nairobi, Kenya — May 25, 2025
Beneath the resolute walls of the United Kenya Club, the 62nd African Liberation Day ignited into a charged assembly of radical thought and revolutionary fervor. Booker Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPMK), delivered an electrifying address that reverberated far beyond the venue.
“We do not gather here to remember,” Omole thundered, his voice piercing the charged silence. “We gather to awaken, to agitate, to mobilise. African Liberation Day is not nostalgia. It is a declaration of war. A red banner of defiance, a thunderous drumbeat for insurrection.”
With clenched fists raised high, Omole decried the continued grip of neocolonial agents and comprador elites who, he charged, betray the continent by trading sovereignty for loans, accolades, and scraps from imperial tables. “What Kenya inherited in 1963 was not emancipation but betrayal,” he declared. “It was not Uhuru but the elevation of collaborators.”
He called for open ideological warfare against internal and external enemies of Africa’s liberation, evoking the spirit of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi as a symbol of uncompromising resistance. “Kimathi did not die for a flag,” he said. “He died for total rupture, for a socialist horizon unburdened by colonial logic. His blood irrigates the future we must now fight to claim.”
The rallying chants of “Wafanyi kazi nyakua mashamba! Nyakua! Wafanyi kazi komboa chakula! Komboa! Wafanyi kazi pigania uhuru! Pigania!” shook the hall. Omole’s speech interwove historical memory with sharp critiques of contemporary neocolonialism, including scathing references to AFRICOM, which he described as “the armed wing of global capital—a machinery of death masquerading as protection.”
He invoked the legacy of Fidel Castro, framing him as a model of internationalist solidarity. “Fidel lives in every peasant resisting eviction, in every student rejecting colonial curriculum, in every worker refusing exploitation,” Omole declared. “Fidel is not gone. Fidel lives in the clenched fists of Africa’s awakening.”
Omole pinpointed the Alliance of Sahel States and Palestine as critical frontlines in the collapse of global imperialism, calling these struggles “the burial sites of imperial arrogance.” He also celebrated revolutionary organizations in Kenya, such as the AAPRP Wahenga, Youth Revolutionary League, Revolutionary Students Commission, Revolutionary Women League, Pio Gama Pinto Institute, and Kasarani Social Justice Centre, as vanguard forces in the people’s struggle.
The event marked the conclusion of the Fourth International Theoretical Conference (Theocon), where Omole asserted that revolutionary theory is not an academic luxury but a weapon of liberation. “We are not spectators. We are the gravediggers of imperialism,” he said. “The vanguard of Africa’s Second and Final Liberation!”
As his voice rose to a defiant crescendo, he led the crowd in a final rallying cry:
“Until we crash the big landlords—Mapambano bado yanaendelea!
Until we crash the comprador class—Mapambano bado yanaendelea!
Until we crash the bureaucrat elite—Mapambano bado yanaendelea!
Until we win—Mapambano bado yanaendelea!”
The air crackled with the revolutionary spirit of the day as Omole’s words echoed a timeless truth: Africa’s liberation is not a distant dream—it is a living, breathing fight, and it is far from over.
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