Why Does The West Not Want Africa To Have Nuclear Power?

Jul 09, 2026

Despite being the only geopolitical entity on Earth to actually deploy nuclear weapons, despite endangering countless lives across the globe through its nuclear tests, despite spending decades covering up the environmental and human costs of these atrocities, and despite boasting enough nuclear weapons in its stockpiles to end human civilization as we know it several times over, the West has appointed itself the global police of nuclear power.

Through organizations like the United Nations (UN) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which it controls, the West has spent decades blocking non-Western nations from developing nuclear deterrence.

Or at least, those it can bully into submission.

In this report for The Spearhead, Barra Hart sheds light on Africa’s place in this global weapons hierarchy, and what the continent, as a matter of survival, must do about it.

BREAKING: Burkina Faso Severs Diplomatic Ties With France

Burkina Faso has officially severed all diplomatic ties with its former coloniser France.

The Burkinabé government announced this in a statement released on June 26, 2026, citing France’s repeated attempts to destabilize the country.

Since cutting military and political ties with France in 2022, under the revolutionary leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso has seen rapid social, political and economic progress.

This latest move by the Burkinabé government stands as the latest reminder to the world that the days of the West interfering in Burkina Faso’s affairs are over.

Burkina Faso Fines French Media Outlet Canal+ Over Breach Of Contract

Burkina Faso continues to assert control over its media and information space. On June 17, 2026, the country’s Higher Council for Communication (CSC) slapped an $86,516 fine on French-owned multimedia group Canal+, for breaching its contractual obligations.

Canal+ is the latest French media outlet to be reminded by the administration of Burkinabé President Ibrahim Traoré that it is the people of Burkina Faso, not France, who control the country’s destiny now.

Assata Shakur: Cuba Revealed the African Heritage US Media Often Tried to Erase

Assata Olugbala Shakur was a political activist and a prominent member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army in the USA. She lived out most of her life in political exile in Cuba following her questionable conviction for the alleged m*rder of a police officer in 1973 and her subsequent escape from prison in 1979.

In this clip, Assata - the godmother of HipHop music legend Tupac Shakur - explains how upon arriving in Cuba, she was struck by the stark difference between the visibly African-dominated reality of Cuba’s population and culture, and the whitewashed, Europeanised, “Gusano” version of Cuba presented to the world through the lens of US media and its infamous “Miami Cuban” filter.

Her words serve as a reminder that those who control the reins of public perception via media and information often use that power to misrepresent and distort objective reality. Be it on the continent, in Cuba, or anywhere else in the diaspora, Africans must learn to seize control of their public narrative and jealously guard it.

ZANU-PF Spokesperson Links South African Afrophobia to Colonial Racial Legacy

ZANU-PF Spokesperson Christopher Mutsvnagwa recalls in this interview with South African news platform Newzroom Afrika, that the roots of modern day Afrophobia in South Africa stem from colonial racism during the liberation struggle era where white settlers fleeing Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and other newly independent countries in the region were given free access to South Africa and treated as citizens.

The same treatment was not however, extended to Africans from those countries who found their way into South Africa for economic reasons. This he argues, is the basis of the 2-tier treatment of black foreign nationals and white foreign nationals in South Africa.

Do you agree with him? Let us know in the comments.

US Continues To Interfere In South Africa’s Politics

In his latest breach of diplomatic protocol (see Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961) US Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, has openly antagonized South Africa for its deepening ties with Iran and China, two countries which have stood solidly by South Africa for decades.

Bozell’s latest stunt demonstrates not only the US’s imperialist arrogance, but its desperation to maintain its slipping grip on Africa, as the continent continues to break away from the parasitic West, and deepen ties with its true international allies.