The Urithi Wa Umkobothi Company Limited is focused on sharing our liberation heritage to take us forward into this new world...

 

We do all that we do because we are part of a continent and its peoples that are exploring ways to realise their best selves and wildest dreams. 

 

It turns out, that this is a long-standing African tradition of aspiring to be and do better for oneself, one's family and community, and then more formally, one's country and continent. 

 

Our World View

From 1881 to 1914, a diverse, rich/prosperous, and cosmopolitan African continent with thousands of ancient cultures were attacked in what should be called the first World War.  This time is euphemistically called the Scramble for Africa where the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers took place. 

 

The Scramble for Africa was not a walk-over, people in every part of the African continent organised resistance to the various and numerous invasions by colonisers and fought as best they could against domineering forces. Most indigenous peoples and cultures were overrun and dominated; enslaved and exploited; and, forcibly separated from their identities and cultural and economic endowments. 

 

African countries have gained their independence since the 1960s. And, have for almost two generations attained theirs through their own deliberate collaboration and support for each other other’s struggles against settlers. 

 

Today across Africa, the liberation movements leading most countries have their foundational spirit in this long-lasting indomitable African spirit - that we shall overcome one day...

 

In short:

 

1. Colonisation is not African history - African Liberation is our history within the African continent's colonial and Apartheid experience. African peoples’ popular movements along with their continental and global alliances are the victors over settlers who had come to conquer.

 

2. African liberation history is the stage where African peoples and movements have demonstrated how they have overcome incredible odds. The fight for liberation across the continent was exactly that - a fight against aggressors who are now our biggest donors, trade partners, and partners in development.

 

3.  African liberation was a necessary response for achieving the Africa we have today.

 

4.  Africans today can - for the most part - talk, dream, and imagine #theafricawewant because of the sacrifices, pain, decisions, and successes of freedom fighters and popular people's movements that ensured that African people of today could determine their own destinies.

 

5. Our liberation heritage must be acknowledged, shared, celebrated, and critiqued because the job of liberating the African child and the African continent is not yet done. The successes, innovations, attitudes, and decisions of liberation movements have shaped current political, cultural, and social landscapes across Africa for the better, since 1881.

 

In the 2020s, open-minded, forward-looking explorers like yourself need to discern and learn of the skill, intelligence, and courage of African men and women who have assembled a colourful, beguiling, and formidable liberation legacy. One can certainly draw lessons on how to lead the next phase of Africans exercising their agency in local and global affairs.