Choose one question and name it in your opening line.
1. Should a movement take power, or stay outside it?
Kwame Nkrumah said to seek first the political kingdom and everything else would follow. Frantz Fanon said the party that wins the state becomes the thing it fought.
2. Is a movement made by its leaders or by its people?
The vanguard tradition, after Lenin, says a disciplined few must lead because the many are not ready. Julius Nyerere said people cannot be developed by anyone, they can only develop themselves.
3. Does a movement win by changing its opponent's mind, or by becoming too costly to ignore?
Gandhi and Martin Luther King said the opponent has a conscience and it can be reached. Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X said the opponent has interests, and only cost moves interests.
4. Is a movement held together by belief or by bread?
Steve Biko said the fight is won in the mind before it is won anywhere else. Amílcar Cabral said people do not fight for ideas in anyone's head, they fight to win material things.
Explain both sides so that we understand why an honest person would choose either. Name the thinker or the tradition behind each. At least one side must be African.
Then take one real movement. It may be a movement in Uganda now, or one from another country or another century. Show what each side would have told that movement to do. Show where each side would have failed it.
You are not here to persuade us. End with a harder question, not a verdict.