One term that is gaining increasing prominence in this age of Covid is “The Great Reset.”  Like most emergent theories these days, it attracts strong views either side. So on the one hand it is “a global agenda to monitor and control the world through digital surveillance.” (1)  Conversely, it has been dismissed as an implausible web of conspiratorial ideas capitalising on (if not creating) the Covid pandemic (lockdowns, vaccines, vaccine passports, etc), popular among the anti-lockdown right-wing ideologues like Laura Ingraham and Candace Owens. (2).  The term is also frequently allied with other concepts like the Forth Industrial Revolution, technocracy, Artificial Intelligence and transhumanism leading ultimately to global totalitarian control .by technocratic elites.  (3).

As one commentator noted:

“There’s not a single area of life that is left out of this Great Reset plan. The planned reform will affect everything from government, energy and finance to food, medicine, real estate, policing and even how we interact with our fellow human beings in general.” (4)

Interestingly, the term itself is not some shadowy clandestine concept, given its support by the likes of the World Economic Forum, national governments and even the British royal family.  Indeed, some of these may even agree with elements of the above description but regard it as a net positive, essential to preserving the world’s increasingly scarce resources, while placing “social justice at its centre.”  (5)

What is less associated is with the Great Reset is Afrika. As Tanzania struggles to maintain its Magufulification process, conversations on these issues are happening but all too infrequently, especially within the context of liberation. (6)

With a range of Afrika Liberation Day events already under way with more to come, it will be interesting to see how much ‘The Great Reset’ features, incorporating our analysis and response to it.

(1) Dr. Joseph Mercola (18/11/20) Who Pressed the Great Reset Button? https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-pressed-great-reset-button/5730169

(2) Quinn Slobodian (04/12/20) How the ‘great reset’ of capitalism became an anti-lockdown conspiracy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/04/great-reset-capitalism-became-anti-lockdown-conspiracy

(5) Patrick Bond (10/08/18) BRICS Leaders Are Reinforcing, Not Replacing, the Global System of Power. https://www.globalresearch.ca/brics-leaders-are-reinforcing-not-replacing-the-global-system-of-power/5650177; Natalie Morris (01/04/20) The race problem with Artificial Intelligence: ‘Machines are learning to be racist’. https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/01/race-problem-artificial-intelligence-machines-learning-racist-12478025/?ito=cbshare;Matthew Ehret-Kump (18/05/21) Escaping the Brave New World: Transhumanism, Utopias and Eugenics. https://www.globalresearch.ca/escaping-brave-new-world-transhumanism-utopia-eugenics/5745624; Gary Feldman (16/12/20) Ready for The ‘Great Reset?’ https://theislandnow.com/blog-112/gary-teaches-ready-for-the-great-reset/

(3) Mercola. Op. Cit.

(4) Slobodian. Op. Cit; Mark Doumba (29/07/20) The great reset must place social justice at its centre. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/great-reset-must-place-social-justice-centre/

(6) Andres Schipani (14/04/21) Tanzania’s new president turns her back on Magufuli. https://www.ft.com/content/7549086b-515f-44ea-850c-9795d4a124d6; Pan-African Daily TV (27/01/21) Rutendo Matinyarare On Afro-conciousness: Youth And Leadership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ3FYHhNxq4&t=2795s

So we ask the question:

How will the “Great Reset” affect Afrikan Liberation?

1) What is “The Great Reset”?

2) Will it really affect every area of life?

3) Will the Great Reset ”place social justice at its centre”?

4) Or will it lead to global totalitarian control?

5) Is there an Pan-Afrikan response to ‘The Great Reset’?

Our Special Guest:

Bro. Ifayomi Grant: in addition to operating his own consultancy firm Paul Grant & Associates Ltd, Bro. Ifayomi is the author of a number of exciting and dynamic books ‘Niggers, Negroes, Black People and Afrikans’ and ‘Blue Skies for Afrikans’, ‘Saving Our Sons’, ‘Sankofa the Wise Man and His Amazing Friends’,  ‘Why Willie Lynch Must Die’ and ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’.  He is an active member of the Afrikan community and is involved in a number of community groups some of which he founded or co-founded:Nubian Link www.nubianlink.org.uk a community education group, ABDF Ltd (www.abdf.co.uk), a community economic development company, Nottingham Black Families in Education Parent Support Group and Brother II Brother an Afrikan men’s group. He is an executive member of the Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Africa (FOSDAF) www.fosdaf.org an international group promoting grassroots Afrikan economic empowerment.  In addition to his www.houseofknowledge.org.uk that houses writings, information and resources, Bro. Ifayomi has also launched a the website: www.blackfinancialfitness.com as a learning platform to facilitate economic empowerment.