The Egyptian Revolution of 1952...a step towards shaping the future of Egypt and the African continent

By: Karyman Wael AlQalamawy
In the midst of the Egyptian people's slide into ignorance and poverty as a result of the dominance of the ruling class and the elites who control most of the rights that guarantee a dignified life, there was a secretive organization firmly entrenched within the military known as the Free Officers. One of the main goals of this organization was to liberate the country from the suffocating grip of colonialism, which clung to the state like an unyielding ember, regardless of the multitude of attempts. However, the determination and belief of this organization in the inevitability of achieving its goal, especially after the failure of the Palestinian war, were instrumental in allowing the organization to achieve its objective on the 23rd of July, 1952.
The revolution took place, and the officers succeeded in liberating the country. But what comes next? One of the main reasons for the success of that revolution was the sound organization that enabled the Free Officers to achieve their goals for the country. They had several principles, among the most important were: eliminating the feudal system to enable farmers to live a decent life, establishing a sound democratic system in which every individual strives for active participation in building the society and shaping the state, and finally achieving independence for the country, which was the most important goal the Free Officers sought to achieve.
The formation of the new state began under the leadership of the first Egyptian president, Mohamed Naguib, and then President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who succeeded in taking effective steps towards reaching the ultimate goal, , which was the liberation of Egypt from the grip of foreign colonialism by nationalizing the Suez Canal and the evacuation of the English forces one after the other until the last soldier left the land of Kinana on June 18, 1956.
Egypt's independence was not the end of the struggle that Gamal Abdel Nasser began. Rather, he launched a campaign under his leadership to purify the Arab and African world from the scourge of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations, passing through Sudan, Morocco, Ghana, the Republic of Somalia, and even Namibia in 1990. This development campaign was one of the direct reasons for the formation of the African continent and the Arab world on the principles of independence and unity, but at the same time independence was marred by economic and social pressures that we all hope that we and our brotherly countries will succeed in overcoming so that we will pass halfway to the major countries soon.