Trump Has Turned Nigeria and Cuba into America's 'Whipping Boys'
Every time Trump’s America hits a wall with countries it cannot easily control, it turns around and flexes power over countries it believes it can still push around.
That is what is happening with Nigeria and Cuba.
After failed or difficult negotiations elsewhere, Cuba suddenly faces fresh charges over a 30-year-old incident, while Nigeria gets pulled into new U.S. military announcements, telecom deals, mineral interests, and the familiar language of “counterterrorism” and “countering China.”
This is clear power politics.
Nigeria’s insecurity should not become an open door for foreign military ambition or economic control and definitely not a dying empire's convenient show of strength.
Why Did Washington Lift Ethiopia’s Arms Embargo Now?
Why is Washington opening the door for arms access to Ethiopia at this moment?
The answer is simple.
With the UAE already accused of backing the RSF, and Ethiopia now emerging as a possible route in the Sudan war, this decision could create another corridor for weapons to flow into an already devastating conflict and true to its predatory nature, the US empire has primed itself to exploit that opening.
Sudan’s war is not a local power struggle. It is about foreign interests, mineral wealth, regional control, and the continued weakening of African states for outside benefit.
Is Ghana Moving Towards Nationalizing Its Gold?
When the colonial criminals of Europe first stepped foot in Africa, they did not meet a “poor”, “starving” or “corrupt” continent. Otherwise, they and their descendants would not have gone on to plunder this continent for 500 years. What Africans know today as poverty, hunger and corruption are not indigenous phenomena, but symptoms of a disease that was brought upon their land by parasites who had no interest in “civilizing” anyone.
It is a tragic irony. Africa is “poor” because it is wealthy, and because this wealth is being plundered, and the centuries the West has spent plundering Africa’s wealth is a testament to just how boundless that wealth is.
Ghana is Africa’s largest gold producer, and has been since 2019. Yet the bulk of the value from this gold has historically been carted off by foreign corporations, at the expense of the Ghanaian people.
But recent developments in the West African country seem to be shaking this status quo.
Since returning to office in December 2024, Ghana President John Dramani Mahama has effected reforms which have moved his country towards greater control over its natural resources, and seen its economy steadily grow.
What do these reforms mean for Ghana’s future? And is the country truly embarking on a nationalist path, one which could finally fulfill the dream of its founding father, Kwame Nkrumah?
French Media Colludes With T£rror Groups To Discredit Mali
On April 25, 2026, the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) foiled a series of coordinated t£rror att@cks targeting several cities across the country, primarily the garrison towns of Kati, Kidal, Gao and Sevare. The Al-Q@£da-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the so-called Azawad Liberation Forces (FLA) both claimed responsibility for these attacks, whose scale and orchestration suggested substantial external backing – Al-Q@£da has known links to the US government.
On April 28, 2026, Mali President Assimi Goïta addressed the nation, assuring all that the situation was under control, and vowing to continue military operations until the forces of t£rror were expelled from the country.
Not that you would know any of this if your only source of information on the April 25 att@cks was French media.
In this report for the Spearhead, Muniru Guinko Nuhu sheds light on the desperate attempts by French media to portray Mali as a failed state in dire need of France’s “benevolent” intervention, when this could not be further from reality.
As a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Mali has faced relentless att@cks by Western-backed t£rrorists, economic isolation and sovereignty violations by Western-aligned African states, and endless slander from Western and Western-aligned media. Despite these externally-imposed challenges, the country and its fellow AES members, Niger and Burkina Faso, have continued to record economic and political wins.
All 3 AES members have pointed to former colonizer France as a key sponsor of t£rror in the region – a claim which has been corroborated by their international allies – and France itself has made no bones about its intentions to revive its dwindling influence in Africa, and in so doing, shore up its presently crumbling economy.
African Proverb Of The Week
Is it the decades of externally-fueled hatred between Sudan’s Arab-aligned North and its more authentically African South – which triggered the 3 civil wars and several smaller conflicts that have ravaged the country for the last 7 decades to date?
Is it the decades of externally-fueled hatred between the once-harmonious Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups of Rwanda – which exploded into the 1994 Rwandan Gen*cide?
Is it the decades of externally-fueled hatred between Nigeria’s predominantly Christian, Western-aligned and supposedly “more educated” South and its predominantly Muslim, Arab-aligned and supposedly “less educated” North – which sparked two reactionary coups in 1966 that led the country nowhere, as well as the m@ssacre of at least 30,000 Igbos living in the Northern Nigeria later that same year?
Is it the decades of institutionalized racism in South Africa that are directly linked to the x*nophobic atrocities presently being committed by a noisy minority of South African citizens against their fellow Africans, while the descendants of the European colonizers who facilitated this institutionalized racism continue to control over 90% of the country’s economy?
It is the tried and true tactic of Western imperialism: divide and rule. And the wisdom of this West African proverb is simple: no matter what superficial differences are deliberately exaggerated in our cultural and media spaces to keep us at each other’s throats, Africans are ultimately all in the same boat. The parasitic engineers of our misery know this well, and fear nothing more than our realizing it too.
Because when Africans finally realize that they all bear the same load on their backs, they will unify and cast that load off.
And that will be the end of the West as we know it
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