Reminds me of the great Thomas Sankara. Powerful speech from an equally brilliant man. #AES is the gateway to Africas freedom and other countries will follow as this is the only way to be free from the chains of imperialism. #selfdetermination
EVERY AFRICAN POLITICIAN MUST WATCH TJIS VIDEO. THIS IS A MASTERCLASS BY BURKINA FASO’S CAPT. IBRAHIM TRAORE, ON THE END OF COLONIALISM IN AFRICA! PULL UP A CHAIR 🪑
Traore (Transcript + Video):
This continent has suffered so much and continues to suffer because of imperialists. These imperialists have only one cliché in mind: ‘Africa is the empire of slaves.’ This is how they see Africa. For them, Africans belong to them. Our lands belong to them. Our subsoil belongs to them. They have never been able to change the logic until today. This is deplorable.
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But how do they proceed? Unfortunately, it is since the 1960s that these 6,000 acres of independence have been given to Africa. They have just placed local valets at the head, according to them, of their subprefecture, to be able to continue to feed them. These local valets, which we are going to call today ‘The slaves of Salon,’ have other goals.
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They want to live like the master, satisfy the master, and to do everything that the master dictates to them. They steal, they plunder our states, they bring everything to the master, and their wealth is kept with the master. They do everything to live like the master and always satisfy him. Do you know who these ‘Slaves of Salon’ are? Well, we are going to explain to you what they are. They are individuals who have no dignity, who have no morals, who have no personality.
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But the master-slave has always known how to identify these individuals. They are always ready to betray their brother, to satisfy the master. They have betrayed us since independence and others continue to betray us to the benefit of their Master.
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These individuals continue against all odds to help the master plunder Africa. They like to say it every year in their economic polls, ‘Burkina is the poorest country. Mali is the poorest country. Niger is the poorest country.’ We are ranked among the last.
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Very well, if we are as poor as they say, but when the time has come to take responsibility, we have asked this master to leave the place. Why don’t they want to leave?
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When we take the case of Niger, for more than 40 years, some countries have been exploiting uranium to produce energy at home. From Ottawa to Paris the streets are illuminated. It is the light. But in Niger, it is the darkness that has served us.
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When you go to our states our soils are full of precious metals, such as gold, but often there is not even the slightest road accessible to reach the areas where they exploit gold, even less certain basic social services. This is why we have decided to revolt and take the fate of our countries into our own hands.
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There are many other examples. But when we decided so, we were approached by some ‘Salon Slaves’ to pass on the message of their Master. Because they had created this kind of polymer chain that rises to the heads of our states to serve them. And we came to break the chain.
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And it is inconceivable for them. They approached us and asked us to enter the ranks to make the elite leave that must lead Africa. Because they have an elite formed and formatted that must follow that is embedded in this chain. We refuse to enter their ranks. And then the hostilities began.
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They have sent several mercenaries and trainers to our area. The agents have descended into the Sahel to carry out barbaric cowardly attacks against our people hoping to revolt them. In addition to these attacks on the ground, the attacks on communication, manipulation, and disinformation, are full in their ranks. But the people of the Sahel have understood and we will never be able to be manipulated again.
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They know where they come from, they know what they are doing, and they know where they are going. We will no longer allow this. People are awake and people are fighting today, not for ourselves but for future generations.
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Just seeing this now, and will try my best to simplify it for you, and anyone else reading, to the point you will understand. If you fail to grasp it this time, sorry, I can't help any further.
I will not make it difficult to read, so I will leave bullet points.
> Pan-Africanists are not shielding corrupt local leaders; Pan-Africanists believe in addressing their rascality from the source. There is a source. They were not always like this. Take, for instance, every single African leader in history who had tried to make a difference was either killed or violently overthrown.
>There’s a concept called “imperialism” - this happens when someone else controls your affairs to their advantage, and to achieve this, they must stop your own benefits (meaning stopping you from developing).
>Imperialism comes in two forms: direct form (colonialism) and indirect form (neocolonialism)
>Colonialism is the one you want us to forget, which sounds plausible until you consider the second form (neocolonism). Colonialism itself did quite an enormous damage that will take a while to repair. Now consider the fact that we are not even done remedying that, and the second form is alive and kicking.
> Neocolonialim means, “they are not longer here to control you directly anymore, but they are still doing so remotely, through economic means (the IMF, World Bank, etc, politically (via democracy - a system introduced to you for this same purpose), culturally (via arts, entertainment, religion and football) and of course the Media (which includes the New media that we are having this conversation on).”
>So effectively, they left, but before they did so, they put in motion a mechanism to still maintain control even while they are gone.
So, telling us to “forget” not only reveals your poor understanding of history but also your lack of awareness of your present world, which basically means that you are still under the colonial mentality we are working so hard to correct.
So rather than disparaging Pan-Africanists at every opportunity, you should rather be thanking us for the job we are doing, to which your survival depends on.
Btw, Nkrumah published a book about the second form of imperialism (I mentioned here) and that rattled the United States to the point of severing diplomatic ties and leading to his overthrow after some months.
What is even wrong with you people?
The Dangers Of A Western-Led AI Revolution For Africa
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.
@Big_Mck explores this for The Spearhead.
HONOURING AND CELEBRATING THE FIFTH OF JULY
While yesterday was a day of hypocrisy and ridicule, today, the fifth of July, is a brand new day, a day to celebrate with joy and anti-imperialist fervour. As the empire marked 250 years of settler colonialism and imperial ambitions and actions, on the Fifth of July, people around the world celebrate their victories against colonialism and imperialism, especially in Venezuela, Algeria, and Cabo Verde.
Frederick Douglass rightly called us to question, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Dr Gerald Horne even wrote a book called "The Counter-Revolution of 1776" to challenge the idea that there was ever such a thing as the 'American Revolution.'
But the 5th of July is a day of REAL revolution, and in this video we break down why. Shout-out to 🇻🇪 🇩🇿 🇨🇻, as well as 🇭🇹 and 🇬🇼, who helped make it possible.
We have a serious battle on our hands against the imperialist and their proxies and #AES has the solution which the rest of the continent should follow as there is no other way forward.
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.
Ibrahim Traoré: The Battle Over Africa Is About Uranium, Oil and Gold
Burkina Faso president Capt. Ibrahim Traoré says that worsening economic conditions in Europe are the reasons behind its renewed narrative assault on Africa in an attempt to snatch Africa's minerals.
Do you agree with him?
Tell us in the comment section.
"France is not just complicit, France is an active player in what is happening in the Sahel."
WATCH @DavidHundeyin highlight Burkina Faso's reasons for cutting diplomatic ties with their former colonizer, France: https://t.co/23fpuTUOOE
These leaders are nothing but pawns for their western masters and the only true leaders are the #AES who are the pride of the new African order that hopefully the rest will follow.
Thabo Mbeki Explains Why African Leaders Rejected Muammar Gaddafi's Immediate United States Of Africa Plan
While addressing an audience at an event marking the 2026 Africa Liberation Day on 25 May 2026, former South African president Thabo Mbeki revealed that the desirability of a United States of Africa among African member states was never in question when the issue was raised by former Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi at the 2007 AU summit in Accra, Ghana.
The only point of divergence among AU member states, he said, was on whether to achieve continental convergence using Kwame Nkrumah's bold, top-down strategy, which was favoured by Gadaffi, or via a more gradualist, regional approach.
Ultimately the gradualist approach carried the majority of the votes and just 4 years after the summit, Gadaffi was overthrown and m*rdered in a US-backed regime change operation that destroyed the state of Libya and saddled the entire Sahel region with political instability and a security crisis that persists to this day.
In hindsight, was Gadaffi right about taking bold, continent-wide decisions where the opportunity existed
Let us know in the comments.
Dr. Henrik Clarke's Last Cold Warning to All Black People
You cannot have an election and call yourself free when eighty percent of your land is owned by the people who colonized you. #SouthAfrica
https://t.co/BnBNAaJf4B
Africa's Shift From The Dollar Has Begun
Africa is slowly reducing its dependence on the U.S. dollar, and that is a strategic move toward greater economic sovereignty.
For decades, African countries have paid billions in unnecessary conversion costs and remained exposed to decisions made by the U.S. Federal Reserve. By expanding trade in local currencies and the Chinese yuan, the continent is looking for more control over its own economic future.
Africa Must Take Solidarity Seriously - Because The Enemy Does
Africa's adversaries know how to unite to exploit us, so it is the responsibility of Africans to unite similarly in the struggle for our own self-defence and liberation.
@Big_Mck explores this topic in this report.
Niger Submits Formal Request To Exit The ICC
Niger has become the 3rd country in the world to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) member submitted its formal request to the Hague-based institution on June 22, 2026.
The ICC, which markets itself as an “independent” body, has been repeatedly accused by African nations of disproportionately targeting the continent in its prosecutions. Niger and its fellow AES members, for their part, have directly called out the organization as a tool of Western imperialism, and Niger’s exit from the ICC marks the latest step in the country’s march to true sovereignty.
Former South African FM Calls Out The West’s Double Standard On International Law
Naledi Pandor has a point.
Back in 2022, the South African former foreign minister argued at a Council on Foreign Relations event that international law must be applied equally, not according to Western interests. At the time, Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine was on people’s minds. Liberals in the West flaunted Ukrainian flags on their homes while ignoring that the US-led NATO had provoked the war over many years.
Yet, when Israel invaded Gaza, flattened its cities, put its hospitals out of service, and k*lled thousands of women and children, international law didn’t hold the same weight. The West has continued to arm and fund its ally, Israel, and permitted it to ignore International Court of Justice rulings to end its att*cks, its occupation and its ap*rtheid against Palestinians.
When will international law ever really matter? Drop us a comment if you’ve got an idea.
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People running this mine bring terrorists to chase away the indigenous people so they can take what don’t belong 2 them but there are people on the inside selling out their own people because that is the only way to get in. Who are these heartless people?
🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪BURKINA FASO IS SPEAKING LOUD. MALI IS SPEAKING. NIGER IS SPEAKING. AFRICA MUST LISTEN.
History is watching.
Whether you agree with every decision they make or not fellow Africans, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have ignited a conversation that many Africans believed had long been buried. They are challenging old assumptions and asking a simple but powerful question:
"Can Africans shape Africa's future on African terms?"
They are reminding the continent that unity is not just a dream. It can be pursued with determination and shared purpose. They are showing that neighboring African nations can choose cooperation over division, work together to develop infrastructure, strengthen regional ties, and seek greater control over their own destiny.
For generations, Africa has been told that it is too divided to stand together, too dependent to stand alone, and too weak to manage its own vast wealth. Yet the continent remains blessed with extraordinary natural resources, brilliant minds, resilient people, and an unbreakable spirit.
The greatest revolution begins when Africans believe in Africa again.
No nation becomes prosperous by doubting itself. No people become free by waiting for others to build their future.
This is bigger than three countries.
It is a call for every African to believe that our resources should uplift our people, that our unity should be our greatest strength, and that our future should be written by African hands.
The world is watching. But more importantly, Africa is watching herself.
The time has come to replace dependency with confidence, division with solidarity, and hopelessness with purpose.
One Africa. One destiny. One people.
✊🏿 Africa shall rise, not because others permit it, but because Africans choose to build it together.
And you wonder why that country is in abject poverty as the people that are to meant to run the country are taking all the money. Somethings never change so do not expect any improvement or progress.
AMÍLCAR CABRAL: A GLOBAL HERO
Around the world, Pan-Africanists, socialists, intellectuals, and other activists and organisers in various movements and struggles study and pay homage to Amílcar Cabral. Even the BBC, not typically a fan of Pan-African revolutions, was forced to honour the excellence of Amílcar Cabral, who was voted second place in their poll of "greatest leaders in world history."
But why exactly was Amílcar Cabral such a globally important leader? In this video, we explore the impact of Cabral not just in his native Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde, but also in Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, and even in Portugal.
However, as much as this video highlights the important role of Cabral and his leadership, we also emphasise the collective effort of his organisation, the African Party for the Liberation of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC). After all, Cabral described the PAIGC as the "instrument capable of leading the masses to understanding the nature of their own exploitation, then mobilising them, giving them a framework, a political consciousness, so that they would support the war, of transforming them into militants, of founding the nation. A party, the PAIGC, guided by a revolutionary theory."
What about Amílcar Cabral, the PAIGC, and the African struggles against Portuguese colonialism inspires you the most?
When Guinea Chose Independence Over France, France Tore Down What It Built Rather Than Leave It Behind.
In September 1958, France gave its African colonies a choice. Stay in the French Community with limited autonomy, or vote no and take full independence with nothing guaranteed in return. Every territory except Guinea chose to stay. Guinea, led by Ahmed Sekou Toure, voted no by more than 95 percent. "We prefer poverty in freedom to riches in slavery," Toure told Charles de Gaulle directly. On October 2, 1958, Guinea became the first French African colony to fully break away.
France's response was not diplomatic distance. It was deliberate destruction. Over a two month withdrawal, French officials stripped the country of everything they could carry and wrecked what they could not. They unscrewed lightbulbs from buildings. They destroyed the plans for Conakry's sewage pipeline system. They burned medicine rather than leave it for Guineans to use. Administrative files were destroyed. Public buildings were sabotaged. All financial and technical support was cut overnight, leaving Guinea without the civil servants, equipment or trained personnel needed to run a functioning state.
It did not stop there. By 1960, when Guinea launched its own currency, France's intelligence service drew up Operation Persil, a covert plan to flood Guinea's economy with counterfeit currency and trigger collapse. The plan leaked before it launched.
Cut off and isolated, Guinea turned to the Soviet Union for support and survived anyway, becoming proof that the cost of independence could be paid and the debt never owed in the first place.
The history books rarely mention what France was actually willing to destroy just to make an example out of one country saying no.
Now Burkina Faso is waiting for them.