2 important dots to connect:
1986: IMF Structural Adjustment Program in Nigeria mandates Babangida to liberalise Nigeria's news media and information space. Foreign ownership and funding of mass media is permitted in Nigeria for the first time.
2026: 40 years later, after 2 generations of post-SAP Nigerians have been marinated in American-funded news, "education" and entertainment media for their entire lives, most Nigerians now believe they are Deputy Americans, and hold their primary allegiance to a country they have never been to on another continent. They now support openly imperialist actions by the US and would happily grind their own mothers into paste if the US president tells them to.
Bonus point: The US government owns 17% of the IMF, which requires an 85% voting majority to take decisions. This means the US holds veto power in the IMF, and the IMF is functionally an extension of US foreign policy.
Dr Joshua Maponga - The Classroom Must Serve African Development
Joshua Maponga has done it again.
In this clip from the 3 June premiere in Dar es Salaam of The Spearhead’s documentary challenging the Western narrative on Tanzania's post-election violence, ‘What Happened on October 29?’ the philosopher called for Tanzania to toss out its colonial-era curriculum. He suggested the government prepare young people to become stewards of the east African country’s vast natural resources.
Indeed, Tanzania ranks third in Africa for critical mineral reserves. Half of Tanzania’s exports are minerals, which generate $2.5 billion annually, according to the US International Trade Administration. Plus, revenues are expected to surge to $6.6 billion by 2027.
So do you agree with Maponga that Tanzanians should develop the skills to take control of their natural wealth? And what is education like in your African country? Drop us a comment.
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Joshua Maponga: Democracy Was Imposed On Africa By The West To Serve Western Capitalism
On June 3, 2026, The Spearhead premiered its debut documentary, ‘What Happened On October 29?’, at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, a documentary which challenges the Western narrative about the violent, anti-government protests that rocked Tanzania in October 2025, offering an African-centered perspective on these “protests”, and exposing the nefarious, external forces behind them. This East African premiere came 8 days after the documentary’s West African premiere, which was held in Accra, Ghana.
In this excerpt from a panel discussion held immediately after the Dar es Salaam screening, Zimbabwean author and philosopher, @vudzijenaj – who was a special guest at the screening – comments on the phenomenon of democracy in Africa, and how what Africans are raised today to call “democracy” is just colonialism with extra steps.
@DavidHundeyin is so fvcking right. Japa is a means used to dismantle the Potentials of a Nigerian Revolution because it provides a de-pressurization valve for the Educated, Competent and Ambitious to constantly leave instead of fermenting trouble
Another Black man suffering from a chronic, deeply embarrassing case of white saviour syndrome.
You actually want an American billionaire oligarch like Elon Musk to FedEx his Starlink terminals into your country to magically defend your electoral mandate and save your failing state institutions from total collapse.
This exact same Starlink you are blindly advocating for to save democracy in Nigeria is among the primary tools the terrorists ravaging our towns and violently kidnapping our women and children are using right now to completely evade signal triangulation from Nigerian law enforcement agencies, and to seamlessly bypass Nigerian sovereign security perimeters.
The primary reason these ruthless terrorists cannot be tracked, the reason they can arrogantly host live streams on TikTok from the middle of the Sambisa forest, the reason they can flawlessly negotiate massive ransoms via encrypted video calls without a single worry of being bombed, is simply because their internet signal is firmly based on the decentralized Starlink architecture. This system routes highly encrypted data packets directly through low Earth orbit satellites, it deliberately bypasses local telecommunication masts, it completely blinds federal intelligence, and it renders standard domestic tracking tools, cell tower triangulation, and national state wiretaps absolutely useless.
What you also clearly do not understand is that Starlink does not respect Nigerian sovereignty, it actively and deliberately subverts it. Starlink aggressively bypasses national internet gateways and operates entirely outside the legal jurisdiction of the Nigerian state. Because they explicitly refuse to integrate with our domestic security protocols, this calculated act of corporate sabotage permanently strips Nigeria of its sovereign ability to monitor terror communications, to track the flow of illicit cryptocurrency funding these insurgencies, and to intercept the digital logistics of these heavily armed cartels.
If you truly want to defend your votes in the upcoming elections, then assemble your best local brains and map out the rigid blueprints on how to physically secure the ballot boxes. Mobilize millions of highly disciplined youths to stand guard at every single polling unit from dawn until the final vote is counted and manually transmitted. Build your own indigenous, open source, and heavily encrypted digital tallying systems that cannot be manipulated by corrupt state governors or hacked by foreign intelligence agencies.
You and your team must also be bold and enough to occupy INEC offices when the results are being collated and any attempt to manipulate votes should be followed by total lockdown of the federation.
Stop waiting for a foreign tech billionaire to descend from the sky to grant you freedom, and start taking absolute, militant responsibility for the political and economic destiny of your own continent.
Pay attention to the part where he mentioned Wahhabism as a creation of Saudi Arabia at the orders of America. Yes! The CIA created Wahhabism.
Wahhabism is the brand of Islam carrying out terror across the West and central Africa.
You want to know another fact, Wahhabism is barely practised in Iran. Yet America has convinced you that Iran is sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria.
The so-called Spier Dialogue conference that Peter Obi attended in South Africa today is not a harmless diplomatic gathering.
It is ultimately bankrolled by the infamous National Endowment for Democracy(NED), a known front for Western intelligence and regime change operations.
This conference is officially organized by the Platform for African Democrats. But just like every other compromised platforms in Africa that hides behind the fraudulent banners of "human rights" and "democracy", this organization is a financial puppet of the World Liberty Congress.
The World Liberty Congress is a United States registered entity that operates on massive grants from US state-aligned organizations, including the NED. The NED's funding reaches this African network indirectly through institutional money laundering, making it an undeniable fact that this entire program is a calculated extension of Western imperial policy.
This is not surprising in the slightest.
It is only foreign agents, entities determined as hell to permanently destabilize Africa for the absolute interests of the transatlantic empire and their mega-corporations, that actively fund these symbolic, treacherous summits.
It is in these highly curated summits that the Western elite select, brainwash, and groom future African leaders who will obediently serve their geopolitical interests.
The money these foreign think tanks spend on hosting these high-profile individuals is never wasted. The millions of dollars spent on providing elite private security, business class flight tickets, five-star luxury lodging, exclusive networking dinners, and massive media public relations campaigns are not acts of charity. They are not throwing this cash into the Atlantic Ocean. The corporate cartels funding these summits are buying political equity. They will reap massive dividends once these vetted politicians climb into the seat of state power.
This is precisely where African leaders are programmed to worship the toxic gospel of "free markets" and the "invisible hand". This suicidal ideology systematically convinces them to completely abandon state support for their own local industries. This guarantees that Western corporations, heavily armed with billions of dollars in their own government bailouts, continue to enjoy uncontested, predatory access to our economies while our local manufacturers struggle, bleed out, and eventually collapse under the crushing weight of foreign monopolies.
This is exactly where these compromised African leaders are taught to commit economic treason by privatizing our national assets. They are instructed to sell off our sovereign power grids, auction our state-owned oil refineries, and hand over our municipal water boards to foreign billionaires for pennies on the dollar. This is where they are commanded to deregulate the banking sector, to float their local currencies into absolute oblivion, and to allow foreign capital to siphon the wealth out of the continent without a single legal friction.
Of course, Peter Obi and his elite team understand these geopolitical dynamics perfectly well.
But the poor, desperate Africans watching these events, sitting there with high hopes and massive smiles on their faces, do not understand the invisible chains being forged around their necks. They see colorful lights, world-class chandeliers, white men in dark suits signing corporate memorandums, eloquent keynote speakers using deceptive buzzwords like "sustainability" and "good governance", and highly polished photo opportunities. Their starved brain cells automatically register this charade as a progressive step forward.
They conveniently forget that the organizations holding these conferences are some of the most ruthless imperial institutions in the world. We are talking about the exact same networks that fund NGO militias to spark violent color revolutions. We are talking about the architects of economic warfare who weaponize sanctions to starve uncooperative populations, who draft the crippling loan conditionalities of the IMF, and who quietly facilitate the violent overthrow of any sovereign regime that refuses to bend the knee to the empire's economic dictates.
Our people are tragically stripped of their geopolitical consciousness.
If they were truly awake to the ruthless realities of global power, they would never be caught dead eagerly attending these meaningless, neo-colonial summits. And even if they eventually did attend, it would not be to smile for the cameras, collect corporate per diems, or beg for foreign grants. It would be to throw stones at the arrogant faces of the imperialists hosting these pathetic conferences. It would be to violently flip their mahogany tables, to tear their predatory treaties into pieces on the spot, to spit on their hypocritical lectures about democracy, and to boldly declare that the absolute sovereignty of the African continent will no longer be auctioned off in the air-conditioned boardrooms of our historical oppressors.
Bernie Sanders: Western Politics Is Built On Colonialism
In this interactive session from 2003 with students at the James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York, US politician and activist Bernie Sanders gives an honest analysis of the politics of his own country and the West at large, highlighting how these politics have always been based on the terrorization and exploitation of the wealthier and more humanistic civilizations of the Global South.
The US government’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s popular and democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, 2026, and its continued reign of t£rror over the Latin American country is one of the more recent displays of this centuries-old culture of parasitism.
If the members of the US’s own political establishment are frank enough to call out the US for the t£rror state it is, one can only guess why so many Africans are cheering for this country – especially given their continent’s own history with it.
Former Nigerian Governor: Africans Are Still Being Sold Into Slavery
The period of direct European colonial presence in Africa is known by African historians as the Maafa – a Kiswahili word which means “Great Disaster”. It is so called because of the terror and destruction that defined this period. Africa’s indigenous development was interrupted, its monuments vandalized, its treasures looted, its knowledge systems suppressed and its history distorted by parasites who had no interest in “civilizing” anyone.
Today, many Africans live under the dangerous illusion that this nearly 500-year reign of terror ended sometime in the 1960s.
In this iconic address, made during the proceedings of the 1994/1995 National Constitutional Conference in Nigeria, former Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Nigeria, Mathias Offoboche (1936 – 2015) lays bare the truth that far too many Africans either do not know, or refuse to accept. This truth is that the exploitation and subjugation of Africa and its people by the West never ended, even for a moment. It simply evolved.
Nigeria’s contemporary political space is in sore lack of such bold voices.
Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi was on the kill list but survived the Jan. 1966 onslaught.
He didn't plan the coup. He didn't want the job. But for the next 194 days, everything he did was used against him.
This is Power & Plunder, Episode 2.
In 1914, Britain smashed two completely different territories into one colony — because it was cheaper. They rigged the constitution, found oil, changed the rules, and handed it all to a man who knew the whole thing was broken.
His name was Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
@realJudebela Please understand that this history video is to inform you all that the first republic system was created to make us stay divided and for the sole purpose of resource extraction. The Hausa or Igbo or Yoruba tribe didn't cause the first coup. The system did.
2027: Nigerians Are Walking Into the Foreign Intervention Trap
Nigerians are making a serious mistake ahead of the 2027 elections.
Instead of rejecting foreign interference, both opposition politicians and many citizens appear to be looking to the same imperial powers that helped build Nigeria’s broken political system for rescue.
But no foreign-backed “change” project will liberate Nigeria. It will only replace one puppet with another.
The real solution is not another election shaped by foreign interests. It is a citizen-led movement strong enough to dismantle every imperial imprint in the country and build a Nigeria that serves its own people.
Nobody bought the staged assassination attempt drama, but it didn't matter. It's being used to go after everyone - including non-US citizens and nonresidents.
The Epstein regime is forcing itself into your life, even if you aren't American.
cc @Big_Mck