AES members Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, have faced relentless aggressions from ECOWAS since severing ties with the West and charting a sovereign path. What this new understanding between the two regional entities means for the future of West Africa, we’ll just have to wait and see.

• Dr Aghogho Akpome Speaks On The End Of The Dying Western Monster

In this clip, Dr Aghogho Akpome, a Nigerian Associate Professor at South Africa’s University of Zululand explains why so-called “Western civilisation” is fundamentally parasitic and nearing the end of its life cycle.

Speaking during a public presentation at Japan’s Kyoto University on 16 October, 2026, Dr. Akpome stated that the basic underlying rationale of Western political economics is that for one to gain, another must lose, and that this is a recurring fractal pattern that can be observed across all spheres of Western endeavour, from the lottery to recommendations made by the IMF to countries in the Global South.

• Ethiopia & Eritrea Should Coexist Peacefully For Peace In The Horn of Africa

External interests are financing and stewarding the incremental destabilisation of the Horn of Africa, and it is up to the countries involved in the latest round of escalations to recognise what is being done to them and avoid getting pulled into a war that benefits no one in the region.

This was the message expressed by the former Eritrean diplomat and senior UN official Girmay Haile while speaking to CGTN Africa on 18 October 2026, on the subject of the budding military confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea. According to Haile, the “misguided and fallacious” narratives being promoted by Ethiopia are also not helping to resolve the crisis, even as UN Security Council members have stated that both sides should go back to the negotiating table and avoid military escalation.

Do you think Ethiopia is responsible for the alarming drift toward a resumption of military conflict with Eritrea after 8 years of peace? Let us know in the comments.

• Central African Republic Signs Energy Cooperation Deal With Russia To Boost Local Capacity

The Central African Republic (CAR) has signed a landmark cooperation agreement with Russia, which will actually boost the former’s economy and industry. The agreement was signed at the inaugural session of the Russian–Central African Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, held on September 30, 2026, in the CAR capital city of Bangui.

Western and Western-aligned media have predictably framed this deal as an expansion of “Russian influence” in Africa, while the governments these media outlets answer to continue to plunder and terrorize the continent.

• Mississippi Attorney General: Police “Justified” to Shoot 1-Year-Old

A police investigation into alleged stolen diapers and baby clothes killed a 1-year-old Black boy in Mississippi, enraging many over yet another state-sanctioned murder of Black children.

Kohen Wiley was seated in the lap of his mother, Vellesiya Wiley, while they drove away from a Walmart store on 14 June in the city of Senatobia, in the US state of Mississippi. While officers claim Vellesiya’s friend, Latoya Ferrell, drove toward the police car, the gun shots hit the side of Ferrell’s car, raising questions about the officers’ claim.

Ferrell was also critically injured.

The killing of a Black toddler is yet another in a long line in the 407-year-old genocide of African people in the US.

According to a data analysis by the Washington-based Children’s National Hospital, police are six times more likely to kill Black children aged 12 to 17 than white children of the same age group.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch released a statement on 19 October that the shooting was “justified” and Police Sgt. Hunter Foster would not face criminal charges. However, the family has since reviewed police footage and refute Fitch’s claim.

The city announced on 16 June that one police officer had been placed on leave. Foster has resigned.

Kohen Wiley would have turned 2 on 1 November.

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In the characteristically insincere and malicious manner of British TV punditry, these comments were not intended as a sincere analysis of a purportedly broken UK foreign aid system or a neutral observation about Nigeria, but as a backhanded dig at an African country that is regularly deployed as a public scapegoat in British political spaces.

At The Spearhead, we wholeheartedly agree with Jones’s postulation that the UK should permanently cease all foreign aid disbursement to Nigeria, although not for the puerile, infantile, surface-level reasons that she volunteered. @Big_Mck explains further.

• From CIA-backed Coup To Contrived ‘Big Six’ In Ghana: David Hundeyin Speaks On Africa’s Missing Consciousness

In this clip, taken from The Spearhead Roundtable Episode 7 published on 5 October 2026, CEO David Hundeyin reacts to the furore surrounding Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, which saw certain descendants of Ghana’s so-called “Big Six” complaining that Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah allegedly receives more historical credit than he deserves in Ghana, and that their forebears supposedly deserve equal historical footing with him.

Hundeyin argues that the existence of a “Big Six” in Ghanaian history is in itself a completely contrived and ahistorical phenomenon that was created to obfuscate the fact that powerful political interest groups in Ghana collaborated with British and U.S. foreign intelligence agencies to commit treason against their own country - a documented fact which they have never faced any sort of national reckoning for.

He further argues that unlike in China where the public record is clear and explicit about the historical records of national traitors and their treasonous actions, Ghana and most of Africa have no such historical clarity, and this contributes toward the widespread absence of national consciousness across the continent’s already young and fragile states.

Do you agree with him? Let us know in the comments.

• Sovereignty On Mortgage: Nigerian Expert Raises Alarm Over Bill Gates Funding Of Nutrition Bill

Nigeria’s nutrition space is currently the subject of an attempted hostile takeover sponsored by US billionaire Bill Gates.

Speaking on News Central TV on Friday 23 October, 2026, Dr Segun Adebayo, Executive Director, Centre for African Policy Research and Advisory (CAfPRA) raised the alarm surrounding a contentious new bill backed by Gates, which has been smuggled through 2 readings at Nigeria’s House of Representatives, with the final reading planned for Monday 26 October.

Whereas legislative bills in Nigeria typically spend weeks or months going through their first, second and third readings before being submitted for presidential assent, this bill, which has the full backing of Gates’ extensive institutional influence in Nigeria, was reportedly rushed through its first and second within a few hours of each other, with a planned timeline for passage before the end of October 2026.

You can sign the petition to halt the bill here

• Congo-Brazzaville Moves Towards Visa-Free Entry for Africans From January 1, 2027

Congo-Brazzaville is taking a decisive step toward a more unified Africa. By introducing visa-free entry for nationals of all African countries, the nation is championing continental integration, breaking down long-standing movement barriers, and creating new pathways for trade, business, and cultural connectivity.

• Uganda Drops Yellow Fever Certificate Requirement, Easing Travel Barriers

Uganda’s decision to drop mandatory yellow fever vaccination certificates for travelers is a significant step toward easing travel barriers. However, across the continent, lingering restrictions and routine health screening mandates continue to hinder intra-African mobility and regional integration.

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In this commentary, Senior Reporter @Big_Mck asks a simple but important question: if the institution of electoral democracy, which is supposed to give people the power to choose their own government consistently does the opposite, and must be forced using widespread physical violence to even pretend to do its job, then why exactly do so many Africans continue to reflexively defend the existence of this non-performing institution? Were Africans made to exist at the mercy of electoral democracy, or was electoral democracy made to exist at the mercy of Africans?

Could it perhaps be time to ditch what is already known to not work, and try something that actually does what it says on the tin?

• Ethiopia Boosts Domestic Production With Its “Made In Ethiopia” Initiative

Ethiopia is boosting its domestic production for its citizens through an indigenous initiative. This initiative has seen over a million jobs created between 2021 and 2025, and the local market share for Ethiopian businesses skyrocket.

Yet this same country’s government is allowing itself to be used by Western powers as a weapon against the rest of Africa.

It is left to the people of Ethiopia to recognize whose interests their current leadership truly serves, and respond accordingly.

• Aliko Dangote: Foreign Shipping Mafias Want to Enslave Africans

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, recently launched a shipping fleet to circumvent what he refers to as “foreign shipping mafias” that dominate Africa.

He says these companies enslave Africans. Do you agree? Drop us a comment.

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• Julius Malema: EFF Fights for Black Ownership with Control

In this clip, Economic Freedom Fighters President Julius Malema argues that Black South Africans owning businesses does not mean they control them. He gave the example of African Rainbow Minerals Chairman Patrice Motsepe, who is “worth” $3.4 billion, yet owns only 40 per cent of the company. A Broad-Based Economic Empowerment trust owns 14 per cent. Without more than 50 per cent ownership, Motsepe doesn’t control African Rainbow Minerals, which raked in $65 million in 2025.

Malema argues symbolic ownership is not enough when control remains in non-African hands. What do you make of his argument?

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• Burkina Faso Bans Privatization Of State-Owned Enterprises

On October 19, 2026, Burkina Faso’s People’s Legislative Assembly unanimously adopted a law banning the total or partial privatization of state-owned enterprises. Burkinabé state companies like CIM-SAHEL (cement), TEXFORCES-BF (textiles) and RAFFINOR-BF (gold) can no longer be legally privatized.

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Designed to house over 120 enterprises across sectors like pharmaceuticals, automotive manufacturing, and textiles, the hub aims to reduce import reliance, expand domestic production, and position the country as a regional manufacturing leader.

• Black People in the US Wealthier Than Whole African States?

The influential Instagram account, @askablkman, claims that Black people in the US are wealthier than whole African countries like South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Ghana using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) metric.

This argument seems to be a talking point for the Foundational Black Americans (FBA) movement, whose quasi-religious founding myth is that Black people are indigenous to the Americas and ethnically distinct from Continental African and Caribbean populations.

The argument in the photograph is rooted in a misunderstanding of economics. As the Instagram page says, Black people “contribute” $2.8 trillion to the US economy. They do not own the supply chains for the consumer items they buy, and they are structurally unable to control even the consumer items they supposedly own, in what remains a settler-colony built on exploiting their free or cheap labour and commoditising their lives.

Historically, whenever Black people in the US have built entire neighborhoods and cities filled with their businesses and institutions, it never takes long for the white settler majority population to turn on them. This was the case in 1919 during the Red Summer, when white riots hit 3 dozen US cities over jobs competition; in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and in 1923 in Rosewood, Florida. Why wouldn’t this happen again?

Moreover, GDP measures the nominal value of goods and services produced in a country annually. It does not quantify the people’s standard of living. That is why China ranks first in terms of purchasing parity GDP, which measures how much you can buy with each yuan, while the US retains top place in the nominal GDP ranking, which measures the total dollar value of goods and services in circulation, regardless of how much one can actually buy with a dollar. As we know, the cost of living has skyrocketed in the US due to its hyperinflated real estate bubble, which promises a worse repeat of the 2008 financial crisis when it eventually bursts. African countries offering an affordable good life include Egypt, Algeria and Kenya, according to a cost-of-living ranking by international money-transfer platform Wise.com.

Tell us in the comments if all this makes sense to you.

• Jason Arday vs. Lola Salem: British Media Continues To Expose Its Racism

Between July and August 2026, British media published 249 scathing articles about Ghanaian-British scholar Dr. Jason Arday, based solely on false allegations of plagiarism made against him. The media onslaught ended with Arday tragically taking his own life on August 14.

When another Cambridge professor, one William O’Reilly, was found in 2023 to have actually committed plagiarism, British media was notably silent.

Nor did this same media have much to say when Oxford professor Lola Salem was charged this June with possessing child sexual abuse material.

The reason for this double-standard is as obvious as it is chilling, and holds an important lesson for Africans who still seek validation and success in the West.

• African Banks Turn to China’s CIPS, Expanding Yuan-Based Trade

African financial institutions are increasingly turning to China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) to facilitate direct yuan-based trade and settlement. With major players like Ecobank, Bank of Kigali, and Standard Bank joining the network, the continent is diversifying its payment channels, deepening economic ties with China, and reducing its reliance on the US dollar for international transactions.

• Eritrea Dismisses UK’s Visa Ban Threat

The UK has threatened a visa ban against one of Africa’s few sovereign nations, as other Western powers use regional proxies to intensify their aggressions against this nation.

Because when it comes to keeping Africa down by any means necessary, all Western entities are the same Western entity.

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One of these policies, practiced in nearly all states, forces convicted US nationals to pay for their own imprisonment, and targets their financial assets if they can’t afford to do this.

You genuinely couldn’t make it up, and for Africans, it is the infinitieth reason why admiring or aligning ourselves in any way with the US is a recipe for our own destruction.

• Why Non-Violence Doesn’t Work in the U.S.

In this clip, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (@aaprp.intl) co-founder Kwame Ture (1941-98) criticised the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) for insisting on non-vi*lent methods of protest.

If non-violence is impossible against an enemy with no conscience, what is the right tactic? Drop us a comment.

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• Why Aren’t Belgians Angry at Hand-Chopping King Leopold II?

Belgium-based Brazilian comedian William Da Silva takes on Belgians’ xenophobia with this satirical video.

Given how much the Congolese suffered under Belgian rule and continue to endure under the modern form of colonisation, does it make sense for Belgians to be worried about Congolese migrants committing crime in Belgium?

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• The US Brought Ebola To Kenya, Now Cases Are Rising

Kenya has just recorded its eighth confirmed case of Ebola since October 6. The people of Kenya have the US and their own weak-willed government to thank for this tragic development. For the people of Africa, this development is the latest lesson on the importance of fighting for and defending their sovereignty, by any means necessary.

We are unlikely, for instance, to ever hear such chilling news from Eritrea, Tanzania or the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

• To Free Africa, Leaders Must Politically Educate Africans

Psychologist and author Dr Umar Ifatunde Johnson argues that many African leaders haven’t done a good job at political education, hence why the African masses haven’t remained loyal to long-term projects to liberate the continent.

Do you agree with Johnson?

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• Myth: Black Gangs Don’t Fight White Supremacy

Dedan Waciuri, founder of North Carolina-based community organisations Mapinduzi (@mapinduzi_252 on IG) and Amani Collective (@the_amani_collective) and a community organiser with @emancipate.nc, calls out the latest anti-African propaganda circulating on social media.

He argues Black street organisations have long played a crucial role in supporting US-based Black communities while also acknowledging they suffer the effects of interpersonal violence.

What other anti-African disinformation do you see on the Internet? Drop us a comment.

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• Mali Liberates More Cities From Western-Backed Terrorists, Builds 1000 New Homes For Army

Under its current, revolutionary leadership, Mali continues to reclaim its territory from Western-backed terrorists, nationalize its resources, and improve the economic conditions of its people. The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa), in collaboration with Russia’s Africa Corps [ include “(@TheAfricaCorps)” on X ], have dealt crippling blows to these terror groups, liberating cities once controlled by them, including, most recently, the northern Malian city of Kidal.

The rest of Africa, and especially the Sahel, would do well to follow Mali’s example.

• Thomas Sankara Called For Africa To Unite Against Foreign Debt, Then The West Assassinated Him

On July 29, 1987, at the 25th Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso’s revolutionary founding father Thomas Sankara stood before his fellow African leaders, and implored them to unify in rejecting the West’s crippling debts.

His words fell on deaf ears, and 2 months later, he was assassinated by the West.

But Sankara’s vision did not die with him. It lives on today, under Burkina Faso’s current, revolutionary leadership, a leadership which is slowly giving the rest of Africa no choice but to finally listen.

• David Hundeyin: Somalia Is A Sabotaged African State, Not A Failed State

The Spearhead’s founder, David Hundeyin (@davidhundeyin), argues that no failed states exist in Africa because any that appear to have failed were actually destroyed by the West.

What gives you the resilience to keep going when outsiders try to sabotage Africa?

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The state of geopolitics and international relations in the 21st century has never left less room for doubt about the fact that interests and power - not rules - are the true animating force behind how the world works. In this commentary, @big_mck asks Africans the obvious question - who is protecting African interests?

• Food Security: Burkina Faso’s Rehabilitative Correctional Center Doubles Cereal Harvest In 2026

Burkina Faso’s Baporo Agricultural Penitentiary Center, where inmates reduce their sentences by contributing to the country’s agricultural sector, is expected to double its 2025 grain harvest this year. The open-environment, low-security correctional center was built in 1986 by the administration of Burkinabé founding father and Pan-Africanist icon Thomas Sankara, but fell into disrepair following Sankara’s assassination by the West. It was revived earlier this year by Burkina Faso’s current revolutionary leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré, whose administration has chosen to place the dignity and humanity of convicted Burkinabé in the same esteem as the peace and security of the country.

This model is clearly working, and the rest of Africa would do well to take note.

• Politician Kenneth Meshoe: South Africa Needs Israel

In 2023, Kenneth Meshoe, a South African MP who is also president of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), rejected a motion put forward by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to call Israel an apartheid state. He not only cited the Biblical line that the land Israel occupies is holy. He went further to express concern about the impact for South Africa’s trade with Israel.

Does it make sense for Africans to defend Israel as much as so many do? Drop us a comment.

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• France With Africa’s Resources vs. France Without Africa’s Resources

As French citizens take to the streets of their country in response to worsening economic conditions, we must remember the deeper reasons behind the ongoing drama. France’s economy has been in freefall ever since it was kicked out of its 3 wealthiest former West African colonies. Alliance of Sahel States (AES) members Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso severed ties with their former colonizer between 2021 and 2023, nationalized resources that France once plundered with impunity, and have since seen rapid economic, social and political progress.

Meanwhile, France is buckling under debt, closing its schools, and putting out fires across its cities set by its own enraged citizens.

For Africans, this is both a stern and amusing lesson on how inextricably linked their continent’s misery is to the hyperinflated living standards enjoyed by the West.

• African Proverb Of The Week

What does this Central African proverb tell us?

Our deeply-ingrained fear, as Africans, of the “superior” European, is one of their greatest sources of power over us. But this fear is based on a lie, a lie which the West carefully engineered, by interrupting our history and erasing our collective memory. But the truth survived. It was uncovered from where the West tried to bury it by great African thinkers like Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke and Marimba Ani.

Africa has always been great. Africa has always been civilized. Africa has always been an integral part of the human story.

And Europeans have always known this.

They fear us far more than we could ever fear them. They fear an Africa that remembers its true history in an age of information and rapid technological development. They fear the threat that such an Africa could pose to their already-crumbling global order, and they should.

The only question for Africans is, will we continue to live our lives based on a lie, and watch our continent continue to be plundered? Or will we finally remember who we are, cease the golden opportunity of this shifting geopolitical landscape, and take back what was always ours?

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By offering context-driven financial assessments grounded in local data and expertise, AfCRA empowers African states to reclaim their economic narratives, access capital on fair terms, and chart an autonomous path toward sustainable industrial and social development.

• Africa Has Been Deliberately Sabotaged: US Political Commentator

Africa has everything it needs to be one of the most prosperous regions in the world. So why does a continent so rich in natural resources continue to struggle with poverty and underdevelopment?

The answer is deeply rooted in a history of imperialism, foreign interference and the betrayal of African interests by Africans themselves. Using the story of Patrice Lumumba and the Congo, American political commentator Chainslayer explains why Africa’s enormous wealth has never translated into prosperity for its people.

Watch.

• Ethiopia and Eritrea Trade Accusations As Tensions Rise In The Horn Of Africa

As tensions rise in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia and Eritrea are trading accusations as to who instigated these latest aggressions.

But only one of these nations is on friendly terms with the external forces that benefit from Africa’s continued instability.

Africans would do well to choose where they stand accordingly.

• Obama’s New Nkrumah Documentary Will Co-Opt Pan-Africanism To Mislead Viewers

In this clip, writer and filmmaker Lonnie J. White calls for discernment on the part of African audiences that intend to watch “Eyes Of Ghana”, the new documentary about Kwame Nkrumah’s tenure as Ghana’s first president.

White points out that the documentary, whose executive producer is killer of Muammar Gadaffi and former US president Barack Obama, cannot be expected to provide an accurate, contextualised or complete picture of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-African political ideology he represented.

Do you agree with White’s observation? Leave us a reply in the comments.

• US Congressman Introduces Bill To Plunder Sudan’s Resources

The US is moving to legally plunder Sudan’s natural resources with the help of a “civilian-led”, US-compliant Sudanese government that does not, at present, exist.

This development comes just as Sudan’s current, military government has begun making gains against the g*nocidal militia that the US is actively supporting.

The externally-fueled proxy war in Sudan officially entered its fourth year this April 2026. Across the resource-rich North African nation, millions remain displaced, facing hunger, disease and death in what many are calling the worst humanitarian crisis of our time, while the “international community” continues to turn a blind eye.

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In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart explores where Africa’s interests lie in all of this, and where its people must stand, as a matter of survival.

• Racist Charlotte Cops: ‘How Many N****** Can You Arrest?’

Racist texts led to an internal investigation of more than a half-dozen officers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in the US state of North Carolina.

Officers were apparently competing to arrest the most Black people and using the N-word in their messages.

Are you surprised by this news?

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• Burkina Faso Is Experiencing Its Biggest-Ever Construction Boom Under Captain Ibrahim Traoré

3 years after officially severing ties with the West, Burkina Faso is experiencing its largest infrastructural development boom in its history. This boom was first envisioned by the country’s revolutionary founding father Thomas Sankara, and is now being actualized under its current revolutionary leadership.

For Africans, the lesson of Burkina Faso is clear: the misery of our continent is artificial. It is perpetuated not by our personal failings, but by the relentless and violent interference of the West. And only by cutting all ties with this parasitic entity will Africa truly know progress.

• Ex-Apple Worker: Apple Is Filled With Israeli Spies

‎While millions blindly trust the so called “ironclad” security of the devices in their hands, former Apple employee and Palestinian activist Tariq Ra’ouf exposes the reality: the tech giant is heavily entangled with Israeli intelligence.

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‎From hardware and software vulnerabilities linked to state-sponsored spyware like Pegasus to explicit acknowledgments of backdoor penetration, consumers are being asked to ignore an alarming corporate alliance.

As long as Apple continues to maintain ties with an apartheid state actively committing atrocities, nobody can claim their personal data, or their physical safety, is secure.

• Just In Case You Missed It, Burkina Faso Has Its Own Gold Bars Now

On September 28, 2026, Burkinabé President Captain Ibrahim Traoré inaugurated his country’s first state-owned, state-financed gold refinery, RAFFINOR-BF. The $19 million, 164 annual tonne-capacity refinery will boost Burkina Faso’s already soaring economy, as the country continues to nationalize its resources.

While too many African countries continue to cling to the old, colonial system, Burkina Faso and its fellow Alliance of Sahel States (AES) members continue to prove every day what a truly sovereign African state is capable of.

Is the rest of Africa paying attention? And are we really talking enough about the fact that 3 years after severing ties with the West, Burkina Faso has its own, minted gold bars?!

Are we rubbing this historic development in the faces of those who thrive on our continent’s misery enough? Let us know in the comments.

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A terrorist network which targeted European citizens.

The story of Operation Gladio holds a very important lesson for Africans.

• UAE Attempts To Recruit Journalist To Whitewash Its Genocide In Sudan

As the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) continue to liberate their country from the genocidal, US and UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid rising global awareness, the UAE is becoming increasingly more desperate to shore up its crumbling credibility.

On October 5, 2026, open-source intelligence (OSINT) researcher and journalist Rich Tedd [ include “(@AfriMEOSINT)” when posting on X ] revealed that an unnamed party had reached out to him in private messages, offering payment to produce stories highlighting the “negative aspects” of the SAF.

A classic case of an external, predatory power attempting to control the narrative of a sovereign nation whose resources it covets.

• White Pastor: ‘Mixing with Black People Will Ruin Civilisation’

Arizona-based far-right pastor Dale Partridge claims African people’s low Intelligence Quotient (IQ) would prevent him from allowing his daughter to marry a Black man.

Turns out his children look mixed, with one daughter bordering on a dark bronze hue, raising questions about his own intelligence!

White-supremacists have long deployed the IQ to justify human rights violations against Africans, indigenous peoples, the intellectually disabled, migrants and others. Further, many have questioned the accuracy of IQ and argue it skews depending on environmental factors.

Given the many crimes Europeans have committed in pursuit of profits, what ‘civilisation’ could Partridge be referring to? Drop us a comment.

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• Ex-CIA Chief: ‘We Overthrow Gov’ts When It’s In Our Interests’

Journalist John Pilger (1939-2023) produced the 2007 documentary, ‘The War on Democracy,’ to expose the machinations of the US empire. In this clip, Duane Clarridge (1932-2016), a former chief in the CIA’s European & Latin American divisions, admitted the US does what it needs to do to protect its interests globally.

Given Clarridge’s brazenness, why do African countries keep trusting the US with its health data and natural resources?

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• South Africa’s Cat Musician Reveals His Racist Face!

A European settler in South Africa who is famous for his cat-music videos has turned out to be just as racist as AfriForum!

Are you surprised?

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This is the very same France that was kicked out of its 3 wealthiest former West African colonies for doing precisely this to them, and still hasn’t stopped.

This latest display of textbook Western hypocrisy comes as violent, anti-government protests continue to rock French cities, in response to worsening economic conditions. France’s economy took an immediate nosedive after Alliance of Sahel States (AES) members Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso chose to sever ties with it between 2021 and 2023.

Alors, tu fais moins le malin, France!

• African Proverb Of The Week

The Kiro are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone, descended from freed African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and indigenous African slaves who settled in that part of West Africa. What does this proverb from their culture tell us?

The West has spent over 500 years proving to Africa that it does not have its best interests at heart. Yet today, so many of Africa’s people and leaders have still not gotten the memo. They continue to seek validation, success and “partnerships” in the West, and their continent continues to bleed.

The Africans finally wake up to the true, predatory nature of the West is the day they will finally be free.

• Why Nigeria’s ‘Elites’ No Longer Need Nigerians

In this clip, Nigerian social commentator Sonma Oboke explores the concept of ‘Transnational Capital’ in the context of Africa’s pseudo-elite class, who exhibit behaviours that contradict what would appear to be their own national interest, because their entire economic base exists outside of Africa in western jurisdictions and neutral tax havens.

According to her, this phenomenon is a manifestation of neocolonialism, which Kwame Nkrumah warned about over 60 years ago - African national elites who have no sense of affiliation or loyalty to their countries because their money an their survival are not tied to those countries.

Do you agree with her assessment? Do you see evidence of Transnational Capital in your African country? Let us know in the comments.

• Thomas Sankara: Why I Rejected Food Aid

In this video, Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s first revolutionary president, explains why he rejected food aid, arguing that foreign aid traps developing countries into dependency on Western institutions.

According to Sankara, true liberation must begin with self-reliance, therefore rather than sacks of food, maize, or milk, “food aid” for instance, should come in the form of dams, tractors, fertilisers, ploughs, and watering cans, tools that empower people to produce their own food.

What you think about his stance?

• US Missionary Accused Of Sexual Abuse in Haiti

In the latest testament to the West’s inherently predatory attitude towards Africans, another white American man has been arrested in Haiti for sexually abusing children under the cover of “missionary work”.

When will Africans finally believe what the white man has been showing us about himself for over 500 years?

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As the West’s predatory, unipolar world order crumbles, a new, more sustainable order is taking its place, led by China and the wider BRICS Alliance, and based on mutually-beneficial partnerships.

For Africa, the choice of the path ahead should be obvious.

• French Embassy To Train Young Influencers in Ghana: The Spearhead Reacts

France’s ambassador to Ghana has put out an open invitation to Ghanaian bloggers, social media influencers, content creators and journalists to take part in what amounts to the most brazen attempt yet to directly interfere with an African country’s information space.

Unsurprisingly, not many Ghanaians seem to grasp the full ugliness of what is unfolding. Senior Reporter @ big_mck reacts to the latest open violation of Ghana’s sovereignty.

• Foreign Influence: French Embassy In Ghana To Host “Training” Program For Ghanaian Bloggers & Content Creators

The French Embassy in Ghana is partnering with a certain Ghanaian blogger to “train” other Ghanaian bloggers and content creators on “new approaches to digital storytelling”.

Does France, which is presently destabilizing the Sahel by backing numerous terror groups, have such a soft spot for Ghanaians that it wishes to help them improve their blogging skills?

Or is this “partnership” the latest case of a Western nation attempting to hijack an African nation’s information space for its own ends?

• The AI Illusion: Productivity Without Learning

The Spearhead’s Kangmwa Gofwen examines the hidden trade-offs of generative AI adoption in education. Drawing on studies showing that AI boosts short-term homework scores while severely degrading long-term exam performance, this report explores how outsourcing basic tasks creates a dangerous illusion of competence at the expense of genuine learning.

• What Would You Do If You Were Black People’s Opposition

In this clip, African American political commentator Armond Harris speaks to the obvious psy-op that is the continued promotion of ‘diaspora wars’ and other divisive narratives among African populations around the globe.

Harris makes the point that it is completely logical to expect that given the unique position of Africans as the largest racial and continental population on the planet to have a framework for genuine unity, entities whose interests are threatened by that unity would repeatedly and obsessively deploy these narrative tricks to derail Pan-African economic and political bridge-building.

Have you noticed such obviously sponsored divisive narratives in your African information space wherever you are in the world? Let us know in the comments.

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Nyadol Nyuon said she had no intention of assimilating, and somehow that became more offensive than the colonial history that made assimilation such a loaded demand in the first place.

She contributes to society. She has built a life there. But apparently, that is still not enough unless she also performs gratitude by becoming less visibly African. Funny how “multiculturalism” starts sounding a lot like “be yourself, but only in ways that make caucasians comfortable.”

• US Officials Caught Influencing a Legislative Process In Bolivia: Why This Concerns You As An African

An official from the US embassy in Bolivia was recently caught attempting to interfere in a legislative process at the country’s parliament. A Bolivian lawmaker accused the official of attempting to financially induce other lawmakers to vote in a particular direction favoured by the US in a house resolution.

@Big_Mck examines why this sort of underhanded US pseudo-diplomacy is of particular concern to other populations across the Global South and particularly African populations in the age of Donald Trump and the return of open colonialism.

• Malian Child Abused By Western-Backed Terrorists In Viral Video Now Living Free In A Liberated Kidal

In April 2026, a chilling video circulated online, showing a Mallian boy being physically assaulted by Western-backed terrorists for refusing to denounce his country’s revolutionary leadership. These terrorists had launched a series of coordinated attacks targeting several cities across Mali, primarily the towns of Kati, Kidal, Gao and Sevare. The attacks were swiftly foiled by the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa), and a campaign launched by Malian President General Assimi Goïta to liberate all cities still under terrorist control.

On October 7, this brave boy was reported safe, following the liberation of his town, Kidal, by FAMa. In this picture, he is seen in the arms of FAMa personnel, cloaked in the flag of the country he stood by in the face of a threat that would cripple most grownups.

As Mali’s revolutionary leadership continues to defend its sovereignty, its children and their future, the rest of Africa would do well to draw inspiration.

• Zambia Signs $1.5 Billion Health Deal With US After Sovereignty Concerns Addressed

Zambia is set to become the latest African nation to sign a health deal with the US, under the so-called “America First Global Health Strategy”. The Southern African country had initially rejected this deal on sovereignty grounds. According to its Health Ministry, those concerns have now been addressed.

Zambia’s insistence on its sovereignty when dealing with the predatory West speaks to the political will of its current leadership. Sadly, this will is not shared by all of the at least 18 African countries that have signed similar health deals with the US so far.

Nigeria and Kenya, for instance, are on that list.

• When Will Africa Start Treating Foreign Interference As A Serious Issue?

Across most of the world, foreign interference in local political decisions and processes is recognised as an existential threat to be attacked with the full range of a nation’s defensive capabilities. Africa however, seems to be the only place in the world where this awareness is completely lacking. Why is this?

The Spearhead’s Senior Reporter @big_mck examines this question in his latest analysis piece.

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On the night of September 30, 2026, the Western narrative was further rubbished, as Burkinabé in the supposedly terrorist-dominated northern town of Djibo celebrated 4 years of their country’s Popular Progressive Revolution.

• France’s Economic Crisis Worsens As Its Former Colonies In The Sahel Reclaim Their Sovereignty

France is currently on fire as thousands of its students have taken to the streets, protesting worsening conditions in their school system, as well as their economy. This economy has continued to fall freely since France’s 3 wealthiest West African colonies kicked it off their soil between 2021 and 2023.

Since severing ties with France and nationalising their resources, Alliance of Sahel States (AES) members Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have seen rapid economic, social and political progress.

For Africa, this truth is both a stern and amusing lesson on how inextricably linked their continent’s poverty is to the hyperinflated living standards enjoyed by the West.

• Algeria Confirms Role In Thwarting August Coup Attempt In Niger

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has confirmed his country’s role in thwarting the August 28 - 29 coup attempt in Niger. This confirmation, along with other notable moves, signals deepening ties between the two neighboring African countries, and the ever weakening influence of the West on both.

Along with its fellow Alliance of Sahel States (AES) members, Mali and Burkina Faso, Niger continues to show Africa that true sovereignty is possible for the continent.

The once equally revolutionary Algeria appears to be slowly reading the room.

When will the rest of Africa do the same?

• Samora Machel: We Acted At The Opportune Time For Revolution

Mozambique’s first revolutionary president, Samora Machel (1933-86), told a reporter that Europeans tend to assume they know the answer, but Mozambique pulled off its revolution at the right time and at the right pace.

Do you agree? Drop us a comment.

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• Burkina Faso Creates Dedicated Agency to Maintain Public Infrastructure

Burkina Faso is taking a direct approach to tackling infrastructure decay with the launch of FASO SANYA; a dedicated agency focused on maintaining public buildings and facilities.

Rather than letting millions in public investments deteriorate due to bureaucracy and neglected repairs, this new initiative mobilizes skilled local labor to keep schools, hospitals, and government offices safe and functional.

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• Tanzania’s Western-Backed “Opposition” Leader Nominated For Human Rights Award By EU Parliament

A right-wing group within the European Parliament has just nominated Tanzania’s top “opposition” leader, Tundu Lissu, for one of the EU’s most prestigious “human rights” awards.

For those who have been following the events in Tanzania since 2025, this development offers another chilling insight into the external forces behind Tanzania’s “opposition” movement.

In its debut documentary, “What Happened On October 29?”, which premiered in May 2026, The Spearhead sheds an investigative light on these nefarious forces and their local pawns. You can watch the documentary on our YouTube channel and Substack page.

• Dangote Breaks Ground on $16 Billion Refinery in Kenya

Billionaire Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto have officially broken ground on a monumental $16 billion petroleum refinery in Lamu, Kenya.

Designed to produce 700,000 barrels per day, the facility represents a pivotal step toward regional energy independence, aiming to supply petrol, diesel, and jet fuel across East Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique.

The strategic investment mirrors the industrial vision of Dangote’s massive Lekki refinery in Nigeria, reinforcing a shift toward processing Africa’s natural resources locally rather than exporting raw crude and importing refined products.

• Ghana Moves to Join BRICS to Expand Global Partnerships

Ghana has announced plans to formally apply for BRICS membership in a strategic bid to expand its economic partnerships beyond traditional Western allies. By aligning with the major bloc of emerging market economies, Ghana aims to accelerate industrialisation and enhance trade, investment, and developmental cooperation across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Seeking greater economic independence and robust South-South collaboration, the government has already engaged existing BRICS members like India for support. If accepted, Ghana would become another key West African nation within the expanding 11-member alliance, furthering its goal of building a resilient and diversified national economy.

• Capitalism Only Survives By Exploiting the Global South

Socio-political commentator Danny (@isitcapitalism) explains why advocating for social democracy obscures the unequal exchange between Global North workers, who earn exponentially more than a person in the Global South.

If you are in the Global North, are you willing to take a paycut or pay more for goods to cover a more equitable labour cost from the Global South?

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From its founding in 1945 during the height of colonial rule to its historical and present actions in Southern Africa, the Congo, Rwanda, and Palestine, the UN’s structure continues to shield the powerful while placing the burden of accountability on the powerless.

True sovereignty for the Global South won’t come from begging for a seat at someone else’s table; it requires building independent, self-reliant institutions.

• Zimbabwe Has Paid $508 Million To White Farmers For The Land It Took Back From Them

In 2000, Robert Mugabe, founding father, liberation leader and then President of Zimbabwe, implemented a historic land reform. This reform, called the Land Acquisition Act, aimed to address the injustices of Zimbabwe’s colonial era by returning the country’s arable land back to its rightful owners.

Today, Zimbabwe’s current leadership is moving to pay over $3 billion to the white descendants of its former oppressors, as “compensation” for the loss of “their” land.

Years of crippling Western sanctions and a weak-willed government have led Zimbabwe to its current humiliation.

Meanwhile, the West continues to shut down any and all discussion of paying reparations to Africa for its over 500-year reign of terror on the continent.

• CNN Journalist Amanpour’s “Typo” On X Reveals Continued Western Media Bias Towards Africa

For decades, Africa has had to put up with the disrespect of being viewed by the West and its media as a single, monolithic entity, rather than a rich, diverse continent of 55 nations and over 3000 distinct ethnic groups.

In a now-deleted post on X, renowned CNN “journalist” Christiane Amanpour [ include (@amanpour) for X OR (@camanpour) for Instagram & Facebook ] commented on the September 29 coronation of Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma, the 13th monarch of Tooro Kingdom in Uganda.

Except, according to the post in question, this coronation happened in Nigeria.

Was Amanpour – a veteran journalist with over 4 decades of experience – somehow unable to do a simple, 2-minute Google search before posting this blunder? Or was the continent she was commenting on just not worth the trouble for her?

This latest “reporting error” by one of the West’s media parrots is a stark reminder to Africans that outside the shores of our continent, we are not seen as “Ugandans”, “Nigerians”, “Congolese”, “Sudanese”, or any of the myriad ethnic identities in between.

We are seen and treated by these outsiders as one entity, yet we ourselves continue to let these divisions get in the way of our own collective progress.

Africa’s continued division only helps the West. It does not help Africans.

Kwame Nkrumah, Sékou Touré, Thomas Sankara and other great Pan-Africanist visionaries dreamed of a United States of Africa. They dreamed of a truly unified, truly sovereign, and truly powerful Africa, enriched by its boundless natural resources and human capital.

That dream is what we must fight for.

• Ibrahim Traoré: Some Africans Still Suffer Colonial Stockholm Syndrome

During his now-famous July 16 public address in the city of Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré had a few choice words for Africans who have allowed themselves to become the poodles of those who have victimised them for over 500 years.

Traoré’s message to Africans is simple - freedom in this world is only taken and never given willingly, and if we want to live full, free lives and bequeath a free, prosperous continent to our children, we must learn to resist and suffer for the sake of freedom, instead of lying down obediently and suffering anyway.

Do you agree with Traoré’s message? Let us know in the comments.

• Kwame Nkrumah’s Brutal Letter To One Of His Western-Backed Successors Holds Lessons For Africans Today

In 1972, Ghana’s second civilian leader, Kofi Busia, was ousted in a military coup. Following this coup, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President and founding father, who had himself been ousted in a coup 6 years earlier, wrote a scathing letter to Busia.

This letter, and the reasons behind it, hold an important lesson for Africans today.

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• Bernie Sanders: CIA Overthrows Socialist Governments In Global South To Serve American Interests

In this clip, US Senator Bernie Sanders outlines to a high school student, the US history of political and/or military intereference in the internal political affairs of other nations whose resources are coveted by US corporate interests.

Pay special attention to the story of Salvador Allende and Gustav Pinochet in Chile. Does it sound hauntingly familiar in your African country? Let us know in the comments.

• African Proverb Of The Week

What does this West African proverb tell us?

For decades since supposedly leaving Africa alone, the West has been establishing “bilateral cooperation” agreements with the continent’s “independent” nations.

But what fruit have these “partnerships” borne? A boundlessly wealthy continent where millions remain in multidimensional poverty, where millions of children remain out of school, and where once-peaceful communities are ravaged by terror.

Meanwhile, the people of the West continue to enjoy inflated standards of living, atop their barren soil.

This proverb reminds us, as Africans, to look at the West’s economic gown, look at the rags our own economies wear, and see our relationship with the West for what it really is.

Fun fact: the Fulani people also inhabit parts of the Sahara, Central Africa and Northeast Africa.

• ICYMI: Tanzania Eases Visa Process for Nigerian Travellers

Tanzania has officially removed Nigerian citizens from its referred visa category, making travel to the country significantly easier.

Under the updated regulations, Nigerian travelers will no longer require special security clearance before applying for a visa.

While entry remains subject to standard visa procedures and requirements, applications can now be processed online or upon arrival at designated entry points.

The policy shift reflects broader efforts across the continent to ease mobility and boost intra-African trade

• ‘Africa Doesn’t Have Enough Capital’ Is A Fallacy

In this clip, Citigroup’s Head of Public Sector Banking, Stephanie von Friedeburg contests the widely-held idea that Africa does not have the internal ability to raise sufficient capital for major infrastructure investment.

According to her, the existing model of external financing, which introduces currency risk and slippage into sovereign investment decisions, ends up not suiting the interests of developing countries because the key focus of such financing deals ends up becoming financial engineering, instead of delivering the desired infrastructure value and outcomes.

Do you agree with her?

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While the upheaval might appear on the surface to be the organic and understandable result of a tough economic situation, Mckay Chukwu’s latest story is another reminder that Africans living in the Age of Information are duty-bound to exercise healthy skepticism and carefully examine every social movement before lending their energies to it.

The Spearhead’s Senior Reporter has been looking into what has quietly been happening in the background of the supposed anti-China movement in Nigeria, and some familiar patterns and suspects are lurking yet again.

#Chinamustgo #nigeria #africa #China #SocialEngineering

• Burkina Faso Overhauls Its Curriculum to Reclaim African History

Burkina Faso is officially overhauling its national curriculum to strip out colonial biases, replacing terms like “explorers” and “conquerors” with “invaders” and “spies” in history, geography, and citizenship textbooks.

The reform introduces 54 new lessons from primary through secondary school that drop Eurocentric benchmarks in favor of indigenous political structures, local resistance movements, and African scientific contributions.

By emphasizing that African societies existed and thrived long before European contact, this initiative plans to correct decades of distorted narratives and reclaim the continent’s true history.

• REGISTER FOR ECHOES OF AFRICA CHALLENGE 2026!

The Spearhead is proud to promote a competition designed to support young Africans in understanding their history and heritage.

History Africa (@historyafrica on IG) has opened registration for the Echoes of Africa Challenge 2026, a virtual quiz competition for junior-secondary and senior-secondary students in all 54 African countries.

The theme is “Africa Know Thyself: ‘Beyond the Single Narrative’” Indeed, while many people begin the discussion on Africa with colonialism and slavery and end it with poverty and corruption, History Africa seeks to broaden the conversation. The real African story begins with the oldest human fossils found, marking the continent as the birthplace of humanity and many great civilisations. History Africa then aims to teach African children about the impact of colonialism, the partition of our continent without our consent, the ongoing Scramble for Africa to this day, and the liberation heroes who didn’t back down against foreign intervention and colonial-backed leaders’ treachery.

Registration has been extended until October 5, and the virtual competition will occur on 10 October and 17 October for registrants.

Those young Africans who write the best essays will have a chance to win prizes. First position will receive 150,000 naira, second position will get 100,000 naira and third position will win 75,000 naira. All prize winners will receive a medal, certificate, educational materials, mentorship and training opportunities.

So young Africans: How much do you know about Africa?

Register by visiting historyafrica.org. The entry fee is 2,000 naira.

• Obasanjo: French Company Didn’t Want Dangote To Succeed In Cement Production

In this clip, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo recounts when a French industrial interest in Senegal did all it could, including directly interferring in government and legal processes, for the purpose of frustrating an attempt by Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote to manufacture cmenet in Senegal.

For over half a century, France maintained suffocating control over the economies of its 14 erstwhile African colonies through the twin mechanisms of direct sovereign financial control via the CFA Franc, and invisible interferrence by French corporate interests present in these countries. The emergence of the Alliance of Sahelian States has finally begun the process of ending this parasitic relationship across the continent, which is why France is so disturbed by unfolding events in the Sahel.

Will Senegal be the next former French colony to make a full break with French neocolonialism and go after full sovereignty? Let us know what you think in the comments.

• AES Launches Tafouk TV To Combat Western Disinformation

In another win for Africa’s information space, and another loss for Western media, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has launched its regional television channel, Tafouk TV. The channel will share pro-African, on-the-ground perspectives on events in the Sahel, and counter the Western narratives that have turned Africans against their own interests for decades.

It will come as no surprise that Western and Western-aligned media are already hard at work, using every tired old smear tactic in the book to delegitimize this historic development.

• UK Courts Arraign Genocide Suspect Years After Blocking His Extradition To Rwanda

On the latest episode of “Why Africans Must Never Trust Western Justice Systems”, UK authorities have convicted Rwandan national and UK citizen Dr. Vincent Brown, for his role in the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis.

The September conviction comes 17 years after Rwanda made its first request to these same UK authorities for Brown’s extradition.

The “civilized” West has never cared about African lives. It is left to the people of Africa to look inwards for justice.

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Is Africa paying attention?

• Why N*ger, Mali & Burkina Faso Left the ICC

Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré calls the International Criminal Court (ICC) an imperial tool.

Given that the ICC almost exclusively prosecutes Africans, and that the United States and Israel have been aggressively worked against the court, why should African states take it seriously? Drop us a comment.

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• Apostle Arome Osayi: Nigerians Are Meant To Spread The Gospel, Not Develop Like China

On September 22, 2026, a Nigerian Christian preacher stood before a congregation and told them that their populous, resource and human-capital rich African nation existed for one purpose and one purpose alone:

To “spread the gospel” throughout the world.

Not to develop or industrialise.

Not to celebrate a leadership that actually answers to its people, as the nations of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) now do.

But to remain prayerful, in its poor, underdeveloped state, until the literal end of time.

It will come as no surprise that this Nigerian preacher has a lot of good friends in the US.

• Nigeria’s Next #EndSARS Movement Must Be Channeled Towards The Real Problem – A-APRP

In this quote, [ @aaprp.intl (Instagram) / @AAPRP (X & Facebook) / All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) (everywhere else) ] organizer [ @bayo.ai (Instagram) / @gbelewade (X) / Adebayọ Gbelewade (everywhere else) ] comments on Nigeria’s EndSARS movement and what Africans must learn from it. Gbelewade made his comments at an event organized in May by the A-APRP’s UK chapter to commemorate African Liberation Day.

On the night of October 20, 2020, in Lekki, Lagos, the Nigerian government perpetrated one of the most horrific mass*cres in recent memory against its own citizens. Nigerian soldiers in full uniform shot at unarmed Nigerian civilians, as they waved the Nigerian flag and chanted the Nigerian national anthem. These Nigerians had risen up in the preceding weeks, across religious, cultural and class divides, to demand accountability from their government for decades of police brutality.

Though violently cut short by Nigeria’s then and still Western-backed government, the EndSARS movement stands forever as a testament to the power of the African people. This power, when organized and channeled towards the true cause of Africa’s misery, Western imperialism, will liberate the continent.

The Spearhead is proud to call itself a sister organization of the A-APRP. The full, two-part coverage of May’s African Liberation Day event is available, in multiple languages, on the A-APRP and The Spearhead’s YouTube channels. Follow to stay posted, and head on to www.aaprp-intl.org to join the Revolution.

• Ghana Prez: ‘End the Human Carnage In G*za’

On 24 September at the United Nations General Assembly, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama called for an end to the Israeli military onslaught in G*za.

So far, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports Isr*el had k*lled or injured more than 64,000 children between 7 October 2023 and 7 October 2025. A brokered ceasefire on 10 October 2025 didn’t stop Isr*el from k*lling an additional 300 children in 300 days.

Will remarks at the UN be enough to stop what experts have described as a g*nocide?

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• The United States Enables Corruption In Africa

A new investigation by Senegal-based NGO, the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF), has revealed over 3 decades of potential illicit real estate purchases by Nigerian officials in the US. The purchases, worth a combined $271 million, faced zero scrutiny from US financial authorities, despite showing all the telltale signs of money laundering.

Yet the US and its fellow Western nations continue to lecture Africa about “corruption”.

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The $19 million, 164 annual tonne capacity refinery will boost Burkina Faso’s already soaring economy, as the country continues to nationalize its resources.

Is the rest of Africa paying attention?

• 4 Years Of Revolution: Burkina Faso Continues To Assert Its Sovereignty

On this day, September 30, 2022, Burkina Faso severed ties with its former colonizer France, and embarked on a sovereign path under its revolutionary leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. 4 years later, the West African country and Alliance of Sahel States (AES) member has nationalized its resources, recorded a drastic drop in security incidents, seen its economy soar, and launched its first, 100% state-owned gold refinery.

While many African countries continue to cling to the old system of colonial exploitation, Burkina Faso and its fellow AES members Mali and N*ger are showing Africa that a different future is possible for its people, and that national development is not and has never been rocket science.

• TotalEnergies Gas Deal and the Impending Cooking Gas Price Hike In Nigeria

Nigeria has some of the world’s largest gas reserves, but Nigerian consumers pay some of the world’s highest average prices per kilogram of cooking gas, despite having well-developed gas extraction infrastructure and the ability to deliver cheap gas to every Nigerian gas user.

These prices are set to rise even higher, following a recent announcement from the governmentbody that oversees consumer price regulation for petroleum products in the country. What is the reason behind this disconnect between resource wealth and resource accessibility in what is per capita one of the world’s poorest countries, and what needs to happen to fix this situation?

@Big_Mck explores the story behind the story for The Spearhead

• Why Is Nigeria the Largest African Buyer of U.S. W*apons?

Nigeria just received a new batch of US arms and jet fighters to supposedly fight “t*rrorism.” It’s part of a years-long distribution of military equipment from the US to the West African giant.

Do you believe these w*apons will make a difference, given the United States’ complicity in creating t*rror groups worldwide? Drop us a comment.

• African Proverb Of The Week

What does this Central African proverb tell us?

It tells us that the petty differences which keep Africans separate from and at odds with one another are poison to the continent’s progress, and this is precisely why Western nations are so intent on fueling these differences. From Libya, to Sudan, to Congo, to the Sahel, to South Africa, the places in Africa most exploited by Western powers are always – always! – the places with the most division and chaos.

And so it has been for a very long time. Africa has been on fire for over 500 years, and putting that fire out, by any means necessary, must be the continent’s number one priority, if its future generations are to survive.

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