African Journalists Don't Need Another Climate Workshop

Jul 23, 2026

African journalism is saturated with foreign-funded climate workshops that push imported agendas, often at the expense of covering local economic realities and development successes. It is time for African reporters to stop chasing the “worry lists” of external NGOs and start telling the stories that actually matter to the continent’s growth—from energy independence to trade integration. True journalism requires the discipline to look inward and prioritize our own narrative over a grant-funded byline.

Dr Philip Njemanze: ‘Bill Gates Planned Organ and Egg Harvesting in Nigeria’

When Nigerian healthcare professionals told billionaire Bill Gates that he was “ins*ne” to want to harvest Nigerian women’s eggs, Gates retorted that he already owned the 216 hospitals where that would occur.

How would you have responded to Gates’ caucacity? Drop us a comment.

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Ghana Court Sentences Chairman Wontumi To 20 Years Imprisonment For Illegal Mining

For years, Ghana has been plagued by the seemingly intractable problem of environmentally destructive artisanal gold mining, known locally as ‘Galamsey’. Driven by multiple social and economic factors including lack of opportunities in rural regions, politically connected illegal mining kingpins, and lax enforcement, Galamsey has destroyed natural ecosystems, silted up dams, and poisoned water sources used by local populations with toxic heavy metals including mercury and arsenic.

Fast forward to 20 July 2026, and Ghana’s High Court sentenced Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to 20 years in prison over illegal mining activities of his company Akonta Mining Company Limited, on the Samreboi concession in the country’s Western Region.

Chairman Wontumi, as he is popularly known, must also pay a fine of 120,000 Ghana cedis ($10,376).

Is this punishment fair or long overdue? Drop us a comment.

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African Proverb Of The Week

In the African cultural context, the collective is the ultimate source of power. Reality is viewed not as a sum of parts, but a whole, and the community as a circle that can never be broken. Children are a part of that whole, and it becomes the collective responsibility of the community to ensure they are raised well. And so it was long before the European colonizer ever stepped foot on the African continent.

The African collective nurtured, protected, preserved and thrived.

Thanks to centuries of colonialism, this truth has been mostly forgotten. Modern African communities are ruled over by Western puppet regimes that impose the West’s predation on the masses. Rather than nurture, protect and preserve the future leaders and visionaries of the continent, far too many African states are happy to abandon their children to poverty, sickness and abuse.

This Northeast African proverb reminds us that for Africa to rise again, it must remember its ancient wisdom, and unify against the parasites who forced it to forget.

Sudan’s Identity Crisis Benefits Colonial Powers and Complicit Local Elites

Sudanese artist Tarek Abdelkhalig says Sudanese being confused about their true identity as Africans allows local elites and foreign powers to provoke war to exploit their lands. This has led to 8.8 million people remaining internally displaced since 2023.

Do you agree with Tarek? Drop us a comment.

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Guinea-Bissau Suspends Diplomatic Relations With Historical Ally Cape Verde

Guinea-Bissau has suspended diplomatic ties with its former anti-colonial ally Cape Verde, after the latter’s government called for the release of a prominent Bissau-Guinean opposition leader, representing the revolutionary party that once united the two countries.

What does this latest, troubling development mean for Africa, and why should Africans pay attention?