Africa Must Take Solidarity Seriously - Because The Enemy Does
Africa’s adversaries know how to unite to exploit us, so it is the responsibility of Africans to unite similarly in the struggle for our own self-defence and liberation.
Mckay Chukwu explores this topic in this report.
Fighting Fellow Africans Instead of Reclaiming Ownership Won’t Free Black South Africans
An increasing number of prominent South Africans are pushing back against the Afrophobia narratives currently being promoted by a noisy minority within the country.
South African pop artist Mizz Gabbzz recently had a few pointedly critical words to say about the phenomenon of locals attacking African foreign nationals ostensibly out of competition for “jobs”, while completely ignoring the elephant in the room that is the racialised European dominance and ownership of nearly all of South Africa’s means of production.
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DJ Akademiks Reveals How Visibility Is Rigged By Social Media Platforms
DJ Akademiks shares how TikTok recruited him to be part of a circle of influencers who would make videos based on “trends” that the platform itself created. TikTok would then ensure that those videos would go viral.
Given that political suppression of anti-imperialist viewpoints and artificial promotion of mind numbing, superficial, deviant visual slop in specific locations both take place on the platform, which is staffed by several former US and Isr*eli government agents, do you believe that TikTok and other social media algorithms are simply neutral recommendation engines? Drop us a comment.
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African Proverb Of The Week
When the European colonizer first stepped foot in Africa, he did not meet a “poor”, “starving” continent. Otherwise, he and his descendants would not have gone on to plunder this continent for 500 years. Africa has always been a wealthy continent. It is “poor” today only because its people no longer remember who they are. 500 years of colonialism have created a modern African who sees Western societies as the pinnacle of civilization, rather than the parasitic entities they really are. And rather than fight to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, the modern African wastes their whole life seeking success, support and validation in the West.
In the words of Burkina Faso’s founding father, Thomas Sankara, “He who feeds you controls you”, and while Africa cannot be realistically expected to seal itself off from this modern, interconnected world, this North African proverb reminds us that those who depend on others for their basic needs remain at the mercy of those others.
So the modern African’s relationships with the rest of the world must be guided by the facts of history, and who is actually on their side.
“I Will Make Illegal Immigrants Run!” - South African Politician
“If they don’t run, I’m going to make them run.”
That’s what ActionSA party president Herman Mashaba told Professor J.J. Tabane (@onkgopotsejj on IG) in June about his plans for if he becomes mayor of Johannesburg in the 4 November local government election.
The fierce sentiment against migrants from other African countries seems to dwarf the ire that Black South Africans should have for the ongoing colonialism that stifles liberation. In 2022, the World Bank ranked South Africa as the world’s most unequal country. That inequality can be directly linked to apartheid, which had set aside the best land and resources for the minority of European settlers.
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Video credit: @frank.dialogue (IG)
Thabo Mbeki: Who Is Trying to Isolate South Africa From the Continent?
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki asks who exactly is trying to isolate South Africa from the rest of the continent.
From South Africans recently being booted from Malawi to Africans across the continent rooting for any country’s football team that played against South Africa in the 2026 World Cup, something is definitely off.
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Video credit: @African_Renaissance_Podcast
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