4 years after severing political and military ties with its former colonizer France, Burkina Faso is forging ahead on its quest to build its own, sovereign military industrial capacities. On September 13, the Burkinabé government unveiled the latest line of the country’s locally-manufactured military vehicles, even as it continues to celebrate improving security.
Is the rest of Africa paying attention?
Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala: Winnie Mandela Should Have Been South Africa’s First Black President
South African politician Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala believes that Nelson Mandela should not have emerged as the ANC’s candidate in the 1994 elections that marked the end of apartheid in South Africa. According to her, Mandela’s selection ahead of his more radical ex-wife Winnie Mandela, was a decision made by the Anglo-American monopoly capital interests that actually run South Africa, and it was a counterrevolutionary move that delayed rather than advanced the cause of economic and political sovereignty for the country’s majority Black population.
Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala: Ibrahim Traoré Practises Democratic Centralism, Not Dictatorship
According to South African politician and ex military officer Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, the system of government practised in Burkina Faso is not in fact “military dictatorship”, but a consultative form of centralised government which she terms ‘Democratic Centralism’.
Do you agree with her? Do you think that perhaps it does not matter what terminology describes an African governance system as long is it works and delivers tangible material benefits to the people it governs? Let us know in the comments.
Simon Njami: Haiti Is The World’s Only Genuine Pan-African Country
In this video, Cameroonian-born writer and art curator Simon Njami recounts a travel experience he had involving Haiti, which left an indelible impression on him.
Have you been to Haiti before? Do you agree with his assessment of the country as the world’s only true Pan-Africanist state? Do you think your African country can learn from Haiti’s example?
Afrobeats And Its Links To US Secret Intelligence
Have you ever found yourself wondering why Afrobeats - the joyful soundtrack to the “Africa Rising” era from the late 2000s through the early 2010s - seems to have lost much of its energy and lustre of recent? Does it seem to you like the music no longer belongs to the fans and has become a distant, expensive product that nobody can relate with anymore?
You are not imagining it - in fact the reality of what has happened to Afrobeats is a lot darker than you would possibly imagine. Far from just a fresh music genre that embodied the sounds and aspirations of a new generation across the continent, it has been coopted into the arsenal of the US government’s extensive foreign influence and interference tools. In fact, your favourite Afrobeats artist, as incredible as it sounds, most likely now has a handler permanently assigned to them by the US State Department.
In this special report, The Spearhead Senior Reporter Mckay Chukwu examines a story that has been hiding in plain sight for years, detailing the State Department’s well-funded cultural interference infrastructure which has been deployed all over the Global South to bend entire populations and their governments toward the foreign policy goals of the US government.
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