Barotse National
YOUTH LEAGUE
Barotse National Youth League
Manifesto
PREAMBLE
WHEREAS Africanism must be promoted i.e. Africans must struggle for
development, progress and national liberation so as to occupy their rightful
and honourable place among nations of the world;
AND WHEREAS Barotseland Youth must be united, consolidated, trained and
disciplined because from their ranks future leaders will be recruited;
AND WHEREAS a resolution was passed by the Barotseland National Council in
Mongu, Barotseland on the 26 and 27 of March 2012, to restore full
Independence and Sovereignty to Barotseland;
WE therefore assume the responsibility of laying the foundations of the
Barotseland National Youth League.
STATEMENT OF POLICY
The Barotseland National League is the symbol and embodiment of Barotseland
will to present a united national front against all forms of oppression.
In response to the demands of the times Barotseland National Youth is:
LAYING ITS SERVICES AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT, THE BAROTSELAND NATIONAL YOUTH LEAGUE, IN THE FIRM BELIEF, KNOWLEDGE AND CONVICTION THAT THE CAUSE OF BAROTSELAND MUST AND WILL TRIUMPH
The formation of the
Barotseland National League is an answer and assurance to the critics of the
national movement that Barotseland Youth will not allow the struggles and
sacrifices of their fathers to have been in vain. Our fathers fought so that
we, better equipped when our time came, should start and continue from where
they stopped.
The formation of this League is an attempt on the part of Youth to impart to
Barotseland a truly national character. It is also a protest against the
lack of discipline and the absence of a clearly-defined goal in the movement
as a whole.
The Barotseland National Youth League must be the brains-trust and
power-station of the spirit of Barotseland Nationalism; the spirit of Africa
self-determination; the spirit that is so discernible in the thinking of our
Youth.
At this power-station the league will be a co-ordinating agency for all
youthful forces employed in rousing popular political consciousness and
fighting oppression and reaction. It will educate the people politically by
concentrating its energies on the Barotseland home front to make all
sections of our people Congress minded and nation-conscious.
Circumstances call upon Barotseland National Youth to make the League
specialise in championing the cause of Barotseland; and to serve this end
best, the League will sponsor a political bloc, within the national
movement. This will be the wing of the Youth League entrusted with the duty
of organising Youth . . .
OUR CREED
We believe in the divine destiny of nations.
The goal of all our struggles is Independence of Barotseland and our motto
is "BAROTSELAND MUST BE FREE".
We believe that the national liberation of Africans will be achieved by
Africans themselves. We reject foreign Intervention in Africa, and specially
that from Communist North Korea, Communist China, Communist Cuba, Iran and
Russia.
We may borrow useful ideologies from foreign ideologies, but we reject the
wholesale importation of foreign ideologies into Africa such as Communism
and Totalitarianism.
We believe that leadership must be the personification and symbol of popular
aspirations and ideals.
We believe that practical leadership must be given to capable men, whatever
their status in society.
We believe in the scientific approach to all African problems.
We combat moral disintegration among Africans by maintaining and upholding
high ethical standards ourselves.