Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema has visited Beijing in a move to deepen ties between his country and China. While Gabon sadly remains friendly with the West, this move by President Nguema signals a small step in the right direction.
It is a step many African leaders have begun taking of late, as the entire continent slowly reawakens to the reality of its place in the world, and the urgent need to do something about it
A U.S. Military Command Launches a Podcast. The Jokes Make Themselves.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Brad Cooper thought we really needed to hear details about his personal life in CENTCOM’s cringe attempt to whitewash its murderous work through its new podcast.
However, he couldn’t avoid commenting on the disastrous $47-billion US war on Iran that CENTCOM has been essential to.
Video credit: U.S. Central Command (YouTube)
The Pentagon Set Up Facebook!
Comedian and author Sam Tripoli (@samtripoli) blows the mind of podcaster Danny Jones when he explains that Facebook is a Pentagon project.
We’re not surprised given that the social media accounts of anti-imperialists and Pan-Africanists like African Stream have been “Zucked” or deleted, while imperialists get to keep spewing lies.
Video credit: @dannyjones
Kenyan Opposition Leader Returns from U.S. with Accent
Kenyan opposition leader Rigathi Gachagua came back from a 2-month journey through the United States with a peculiar change in his accent.
Online users took notice and heckled his pronunciation of “matter,” saying it sounded like “Maasai Mara,” the national wildlife reserve.
Kenyan President William Ruto’s former deputy and now rival lobbied the Kenyan diaspora in the US as he runs for president in a contentious election that is way out in August 2027. Many have blamed the US influence for the lengthy campaigning, lobbying trips to the US, and the inflammatory rhetoric, which has led to at least 11 deaths at campaign rallies.
Video credit: @sautitvke
David Hundeyin: African Schools Impart Colonial Literacy, Not Knowledge
In this clip taken from episode 8 of The Spearhead Roundtable, David Hundeyin explains what he sees as a fundamental problem that afflicts Africa’s formal education systems which still remain very much under colonial influence across the continent - the absence of an ideological purpose which is painted over using an inordinate focus on the meaningless rote learning of words and ideas that we do not even understand for the most part.
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