On this episode of The Roundtable, hosts Mckay Chukwu, Uche Okorie, Kangmwa Gofwen, Mayowa Durosinmi, Barra Hart and David Hundeyin discuss the botched Afrophobia psy-op in Kenya, Palantir’s entry into Nigeria via a Trojan-horse security contract, the British government’s refusal to consider paying reparations for slavery and colonialism, and DRC President Felix Tshisekedi’s wall-kissing display in a place that must not be named.
Mike Benz On The US Government Program Producing Music Industry Plants
Ever had the sneaky suspicion that the overnight meteoric rise enjoyed by certain music artists in your country and elsewhere around the world was not a reflection of their talent, but was the result of some sort of artificial boosting?
Political commentator and former US State Department Official Mike Benz revealed in a recent livestream, that the so-called ‘Industry Plant’ phenomenon is not a myth, but a staple reality within the cavernous US foreign influence machine. According to Benz, these artists are artificially boosted through multiple boring-looking official partnerships between the State Department and the record and distribution labels at the top of the music industry food chain, and used as tools of US foreign influence in multiple countries including Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil, Senegal and elsewhere across the Global South.
Who do you think the State Department’s Industry Plants in your country are? Let us know in the comments.
Africa Weekly (13 - 19 September 2026)
On the premiere episode of Africa Weekly, where we take a quick glance at the most geopolitically significant stories from the past week, @Big_Mck explores Burkina Faso’s accelerating industrialisation drive, South Africa’s increasing diplomatic isolation, key events in Guinea and Sudan, and a win for Kenya’s capital city Nairobi.
Happy Birthday, Kwame Nkrumah!
On this day, September 21, 2026, we celebrate and remember the Father of African Independence and First President of Ghana, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah (1909 – 1972), whose vision for a truly united, truly sovereign and truly powerful Africa inspired generations of Africans to come. From the Decade of African Independence, to the Organization of African Unity (OAU), to the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), to the groundbreaking book, Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Nkrumah laid an intellectual and ideological foundation for Africa in the modern age that no amount of Western t*rrorism could ever destroy.
Nkrumah was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup on February 24, 1966, but his Pan-Africanist vision lived on. It is alive today in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), and it falls on Africa’s current generation to make this vision a reality for the rest of the continent.
‘Expats’ And The New Scramble for African Cities
A new scramble for African cities is happening. Driven by foreign salaries, strong currencies, and short-term rentals, desirable neighborhoods across the continent are pricing out the locals who live and work there.
Drawing parallels between historical colonial spatial segregation and present-day economic dynamics, we examine how parallel expat economies operate and highlight the need for housing policies that protect local communities.
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