The Dangers of a Western-Led AI Revolution for Africa

Jul 13, 2026

The so-called ‘AI Revolution’ being marketed by western tech interests is not an inevitable, neutral or benevolent phenomenon but a deliberate power grab that seeks to cement the world’s less powerful populations into a new form of economic dependency.

US president Donald Trump’s recent decision to halt advanced features of a new Anthropic AI model outside the US illustrates the inherent danger of surrendering technological sovereignty and becoming dependent on technology that comes inbuilt with a US government kill switch.

Mckay Chukwu explores this for The Spearhead.

Ousmane Sembène: Europe Is Not My Centre But Africa

During the 1983 documentary Caméra d’Afrique’, Legendary Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène was asked by a European interviewer if European audiences understood his films.

His response to this question encapsulates all that should characterise the modern African artist or public intellectual: unapologetic, independent and African-centred.

Thabo Mbeki On Who Is Blocking Africans From Working Together

While addressing an audience at an event marking the 2026 Africa Liberation Day on 25 May 2026, former South African president Thabo Mbeki shared an anecdote that answers the question often asked by ignorant Africans or disingenuous outside interests: “Is it colonisers that made you not build infrastructure 60+ years after independence?”

The answer, it turns out, is “Yes.”

Knowing and acknowledging this reality does not remove responsibility for the material improvement of Africa from Africans. What it does is reframe the discourse away from nonexistent or surface solutions towards the deeper political solution to Africa’s development challenges - full sovereignty and continental economic and political unity.

Burkina Faso Introduces Approval for Foreign Study

Burkina Faso has introduced a new policy requiring all students; whether government-sponsored or private, to obtain government approval before studying abroad.

Aimed at aligning overseas training with the nation’s development priorities and workforce needs, this measure seeks to boost local education quality by encouraging investment in domestic institutions.

Mali Celebrates 5 Years Under The Revolutionary Leadership Of Assimi Goïta

On May 27, 2026, Mali celebrated 5 years under the revolutionary leadership of General Assimi Goïta. Since taking power in the people-backed anti-imperialist coup of 2021, President Goïta has set Mali on a sovereign path, breaking away from former colonizer France, increasing state ownership of the country’s natural wealth, holding its own against the Western-backed t*rrorists trying desperately to force it back into subservience, and along with fellow Alliance of Sahel States (AES) members, Niger and Burkina Faso, setting an example for the rest of Africa to follow.

US Ambassador To South Africa Meets With White Separatists In Country Amid “Anti-Immigration” Protests

In his latest breach of diplomatic protocol (see the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961) US Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, has met with white separatists groups in South Africa, as the country experiences its latest “anti-immigration” wave – a wave now known to have links to the US government itself.

This latest stunt, coming on the heels of many, many other stunts, speaks to the US’s desperation to isolate and destabilize South Africa, and we need look no further than the country’s recent steps towards sovereignty, development and equity for its true people to see the motives behind this.