As the US continues to send its unwanted immigrants to African nations ruled by weak leaders, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands are in talks to send their “irregular migrants” to “partner countries outside the European Union” by 2027.
The EU is clearly following in the US’s footsteps, and it would come as no shock to anyone if the majority of its “partner countries” were in Africa.
For the people of Africa, this latest development is a stern lesson on the importance of standing with African leaders who actually answer to them, and against those who don’t.
Sources:
Five European nations seek deals to send migrants out of the EU
EU parliament backs law allowing offshore detention centres
Council of Europe warns five EU states of rights risks in return hub plans
US Third Country Deportation Info
https://www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org/
Inside the Trump Administration’s Secret Deportation Deals
Burkina Faso Launches New Factory To End Importation Of Textiles
In a push to boost the country’s textiles sector and end its dependency on imports, Burkinabé President Captain Ibrahim Traoré, on September 9, 2026, launched TEXFORCE-BF, a massive textile factory with an annual fabric production capacity of 20 million meters, which will also provide thousands of economic opportunities for the country’s citizens.
Under its current revolutionary leadership, Burkina Faso continues to record economic wins which previous, Western-aligned administrations were supposedly able to secure.
Is Africa paying attention?
Sources:
Traoré commissions TEXFORCES-BF
TEXFORCES-BF to manufacture military attire for Burkinabé armed forces
African Proverb Of The Week
Earlier this September, Ugandans and well-meaning Africans across social media called for the deportation of Uganda-based American Christian missionary Mac Miller, after his r*cist, anti-African posts and comments online were brought to wider public attention. While claiming to be doing humanitarian and evangelical work for children in the East African country, Miller’s personal views – expressed gleefully on social media – include, but are by no means limited to, the idea that white people are “better than Africans”.
To those Africans who know their history, this is hardly a shocking development.
Mac Miller is just another European.
This West African proverb reminds us, as Africans, that Europeans – whatever other names they may call themselves in whatever lands they currently occupy – will always be what they are, so long as their parasitic, predatory culture remains the same. And no matter what those who visit our Motherland claim to be or want, as a people, their intentions for Africans are not and have never been good.
Sources:
Ugandans push for deportation of Mukono-based American ‘preacher’ over racist social media commentary
Mike Benz Links CIA, U.S. State Department, And UK Funding To African Music Groups As Soft Power
In this video, taken from a March 22, 2026 livestream, former US State Department official Mike Benz spotlights Nigeria’s Chocolate City Music Group as one of the beneficiaries under the US State Department’s little-known ‘American Music Mentorship Programme’ - a semi-clandestine US soft power/influence operation that co-opts music artists and record labels around the world into service to American political objectives.
Later this week, The Spearhead’s @Big_Mck will be releasing a long-form piece addressing the revelations from the livestream and the wider implications of American foreign influence operations embedding themselves into cultural spaces across Africa and its diaspora.
Sources:
USAID & The Rap Game (Part 1)
Youtube/@MikeBenzCyberOfficial
Warner Music Group Strikes Innovative Deal with Nigeria’s Leading Label Chocolate City
Chocolate City announces partnership with Warner Music Group
US Art Envoy uses music to foster collaboration, economic opportunities in Nigeria’s creative sector
U.S. Arts Envoys Use Music to Foster Collaboration and Economic Opportunities in Nigeria’s Creative Sector
The Three Major Labels - Warner Music Group, Sony Music, and Universal Music Group
Lyor Cohen on Becoming Owner of Def Jam, Drake Not Signing, Selling Def Jam for Over $100M (Part 2)
Youtube/@vladtv
The London Gazette | Lucian Grainge Knighthood
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/61608/supplement/B2
Sir Lucian Grainge CBE Knighted at Buckingham Palace
https://www.universalmusic.com/sir-lucian-grainge-cbe-knighted-at-buckingham-palace/
UK Government Launches Creative Fund to Power Nigeria’s Film, Fashion, and Music Industries
How Rappers Become Regime-Change Agents: America’s Covert Hip-Hop Diplomacy
Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/business-ambassadors
Disturbing Video Of UAE Job Recruiter In Burundi Exposes Abuse Of African Workers In Gulf States
In a widely-condemned and now-deleted video posted on September 9, 2026, by the TikTok account of Burundi-based organization, Bonjour Recruitment BDI, a West Asian “job recruiter” was shown “informing” a group of Burundians seeking job opportunities in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Dubai, that their phones would be confiscated by their employers on arrival and given back to them based on their “good” behavior.
The Spearhead took the liberty of archiving the original TikTok post.
While the current leadership of Burundi continues to cozy up to Western entities like the EU, the people of Burundi, in their desperation, are being fed into West Asia’s notorious “Kafala system” of migrant employment, where r*cism, gender-based viol*nce and s*xual exploitation are the order of the day.
Sources:
Bonjour Recruitment Limited
East African care workers in the Gulf face deeply entrenched systems of exploitation
What Is the Kafala System?
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-kafala-system
Gulf: Migrant workers at major US & UK brands reportedly subject to severe labour violations incl. recruitment fee-charging, poor housing & withheld passports; incl. cos. responses & non-responses
Elon Musk’s X “Mistranslates” South African Post To Fuel X*nophobia Narrative
An August 26, 2026, post on X by South African anti-imm*grant “activist” Nkosikhona Ndabandaba, written in isiZulu, was “misread” by the app as Haitian Creole to give a misleading and inflammatory English translation, amid South Africa’s latest “anti-imm*gration” wave.
X is owned by South-African born American tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose family benefited from South Africa’s apartheid era, and who served as a Senior Advisor to US President Donald Trump from January – May 2025.
The US has expressed increasing hostility towards South Africa over the past 2 years, coinciding with the country’s “anti-imm*gration” wave, and at least one of the leaders of this wave, Jacinta MaNgobese Zuma, has known links to the US government, is currently in cahoots with South African white-s*premacist lobby group AfriForum, and is a friend of Ndabandaba’s.
Draw your own conclusions.
Sources:
About Nkosikhona Ndabandaba
US Ambassador to South Africa Meets With White Separatists Amid “Anti-Immigration” Protests
The Virus Called Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and The Political Economy of Scapegoating - OpEd
AfriForum and March and March forms collaborative working group for the “benefit of communities”
‘White supremacists in suits and ties’: the rightwing Afrikaner group in Trump’s ear
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-musk-south-africa-afriforum
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