U.S. “foreign aid” to Africa is often cited as proof that Americans foreign policy towards the Global South is somehow benevolent. The security partnerships, healthcare funding, and budgetary support regularly extended toward African countries are often successfully marketed to African audiences as charity efforts meant to make the world a better place.
In this analysis piece, Mckay Chukwu forensically deconstructs the myth of U.S. “foreign aid” using 3 recent examples to highlight how these arrangements are not in the slightest bit charitable, and can actually be seen as imperial shakedowns characterised by extremely unequal exchange of value, and enforced by the weight of the global U.S. extortion racket.
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‘Kenyans Have Lost Faith In Democracy’
With Kenya’s government in debt for as much as 13 trillion shillings ($100.42 billion) as of late August, Kenyan Pan-Africanist PLO Lumumba argues Kenyans have lost faith in the Western-style democracy that British colonialists imposed on the country in 1963.
If you are in Kenya, do you agree? Drop us a comment.
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Africa’s Revolutionary Women: The Leaders History Must Remember
Across Africa, women have always been part of the frontlines of resistance. They led movements, organized communities, challenged colonial power, and stood up to injustice even when the cost was enormous. Many of them risked everything. Their freedom, their families, sometimes even their lives. And they did it because they believed liberation was worth fighting for.
Their stories remind us that struggles for justice have never been carried by men alone. Women have always been strategists, organizers, and leaders shaping the direction of those movements.
Today, as many African societies continue to confront inequality and the long shadows of colonial history, remembering these women is more than just history. It is a reminder to recognize, support, and amplify the role women continue to play in shaping the future of African liberation and social change.
African Proverb of The Week
What does this Central African proverb tell us, as Africans?
It tells us that the world we live in today is unjust by its very design, and that those who created this system of injustice will never stop being the monsters that they are. They will never stop trying to exploit our continent and starve our people.
Not willingly.
We Africans cannot change the fundamental nature of our European enemies, but we definitely have the power to remove their systems and influence from our land and keep them out.
The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) has shown the way for our present time, and continues to lead the African continent on its path to true sovereignty.
Western Journalists Are Stenographers For Imp*rial Powers
Do you agree with The gray zone news founder @maxblumenthal that Western journalists take orders from the US and the UK?
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As Elections Near, Ruto Dances to a New Tune
More than 100 Kenyans, many of them young, were k*lled during the protest waves of 2024 and 2025 - protests initially driven by opposition to the proposed Finance Bill and its tax measures. As the death toll from the 2024 Gen Z uprising mounted, President William Ruto insisted that he had “no blood on [his] hands”. He maintained that the police were independent of his office and said they could account for, and justify, their actions.
Among those k*lled was 12-year-old Kennedy Onyango, reportedly shot eight times while going to buy school supplies rather than taking part in the demonstrations. Asked about the boy’s death, Ruto replied: “He is alive, right?”
Now, as the 2027 election approaches, Ruto appears to have made a striking political reversal. He says no Kenyan should lose their life for dissenting from the government or exercising the right to peaceful protest. Is this merely an election-season recalibration by a President who once defended the very security apparatus now under scrutiny?
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