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[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

This is the story of Mobutu Sese Seko, the brutal dictator installed by the United States of America, defended by France and helped by Belgium to hold the DRC hostage for 3 decades.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Content Monetization and The Hijack of Africa's Digital Space

The digital gold rush in Africa is a deliberate structural trap. By incentivizing sensationalism over substance, global platforms have effectively co-opted the creative energy of a generation, steering millions away from the urgent work of reclaiming sovereign narrative and towards a cycle of 'engagement' that hollows out our intellectual discourse.

The Spearhead’s @Big_Mck reports that real digital independence starts with the courage to choose quality over clicks; a challenge that demands a deliberate commitment from every viewer to amplify rather than just consume.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret https://t.co/tQ1D0WF7M7

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A US oil blockade is causing a severe energy crisis in Cuba, as the government has been forced to ration fuel and cut electricity for many hours a day, paralysing life in the communist-ruled island nation of 11 million https://t.co/exUFJUnn5s

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

You know that episode of Rick & Morty where Rick reveals that there is an entire civilisation of people living inside his car battery who don't know that the sole purpose of their whole existence is to generate electricity to power a mad scientist's wacky space adventure car?

That is where Nigeria is right now, and that's why I am militant to the point of putting myself in trouble by talking about why Nigerians need to stage the most bloody and violent revolution Africa has ever witnessed. Because entire future branches of history are being wiped out because young Nigerians are trapped in an economy whose job is to make white people and a tiny Nigerian minority rich at the expense of 230,000,000 people like this.

This 19 year-old kid already has the sagging shoulders of a 47 year-old man with the world's weight on him, and he has already learned to not expect anything good to ever happen to him in life. All it took to show him a fork in his future trajectory was a fucking $47 tile cutting machine, and he's now going to hold on to this new opportunity and make a better life for himself - but there are literally millions of him out there that will never meet a benefactor, or that don't even have the skills needed to maximise this opportunity.

There is only ONE entity in any African country that has the power to carry out interventions like this in people's lives on a large scale - the state! A content creator can change one life like this and get viewed 10 million times, but a government can change 10 million lives like this without batting an eyelid! Only the government has the transformational capital and the incentive to do this in millions of lives!

That is why being led by people who don't work for you is a literal life-and-death matter! When we talk about neo-colonialism, this is what the fuck it is about! When you have a government installed by foreigners, which allocates billions of Naira in public revenues to enrich foreign intelligence assets like Gilbert Chagoury via transnational corruption schemes like the nonexistent "coastal highway" - this is the result!

Nigeria's money is not being used to invest in the lives and betterment of Nigerian people! It is being used to enrich white men in Washington DC who are already richer than God, with a fraction going to their local collaborators in Abuja! This kid and millions like him are the direct victims! Their future possibilities and bloodlines are being extinguished with poverty so that Peter McBillionaireStein and Matthew Von WhiteManBerg in Manhattan and London can increase their Q3 dividend payout by 15%. Neo-colonialism is not a victimless crime!

You are all living inside Rick Sanchez's car battery!

[SumitM @SumitM_X]

As a backend dev,

You see this request hitting your API from front-end:

GET /api/v1/trades?page=8000&size=50

What are your next steps ?

[Levi @Delaney_Crypt]

@bosuntijani You are a very serious fool

[Levi @Delaney_Crypt]

@KiLevels LVL

[Levi @Delaney_Crypt]

@KiLevels LVL

[Levi @Delaney_Crypt]

@KiLevels Lvl

[African Stream @african_stream]

AFRICAN STREAM IS CLOSING DOWN

This is, sadly, a farewell to you, our loyal followers and supporters. Under relentless attack, we’ve made the painful decision to shut down African Stream—a platform that many of you’ve come to trust and love. This decision was not made lightly.

The smear by then–US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on September 13, 2024, labelling African Stream “Kremlin propagandists”—triggered a wave of censorship. Within days, YouTube, Meta, Google, and TikTok removed our accounts, and we were demonetised on X. These actions shattered our ability to survive financially. Personal accounts were restricted. What followed was a daily uphill battle. Now, we’re left with only one path: closure.

We are deeply grateful for your unwavering support. Your comments, your messages, your shares—you made us stronger, sharper, and more determined.

We are deeply proud of the work we’ve done since 2022: bringing attention to the most underreported and misrepresented continent. The imperalists want to perpetuate the dominant narrative that Africa is underdeveloped due to corruption and the mismanagement of resources. They want to remove colonialism, neo-colonialism and imperialism from the picture. We refused to play by those rules. For that, we paid the price. But it’s a price we would pay again and again.

Refusing to play by their rules led to NBC saying we spread ‘disinformation’ without providing a single example of what ‘disinformation’ we shared. Voice of America condemned us for reporting a fact: since the George W. Bush administration, every US president has authorised drone strikes on Somalia. As we responded to every smear piece, we just grew bigger and stronger until, finally, those in positions of power realised the smears weren’t working, and the rest is history.

We will cease posting as of July 1, 2025, except for a few remaining documentaries from Liberia and Mali.

With your support, we managed to ruffle many feathers. Please continue the fight and keep the Pan-African flag flying. Thank you for helping us build African Stream. As we always say: #WeAreAllAfricanStream.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them.

That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an elite, while your average Premier League footballer (who may have more money than the HoL member) is not. The difference is in the willingness and ability to wield that power meaningfully.

The reason I keep on saying 'Nigeria has no elites' is that I was born and raised among the subset of Nigerians who erroneously consider themselves to be elite, and I am very familiar with their thought process. It is the exact same thought process that you would get from a sugarcane seller in Mile 12 market if overnight he was given a house in Maitama, a Lexus SUV, a beautiful yarinya and N150m in the bank.

The nouveau-riche sugarcane seller would not be concerned with higher thoughts like how to use his newfound fortune to transform the economic reality of Mile 12 market while positioning to benefit from the transformation. Nope. He would only be concerned with ensuring that he keeps hold of what he has, so that he never has to sleep in a wheelbarrow on a side street off Ikosi Road again.

That's exactly what the privileged Nigerian is upstairs - a sugarcane seller who happens to live in Ikoyi. No matter how many decades they have spent in Ikoyi, their reality is still defined by the desperate quest to escape or avoid poverty. Every Nigerian millionaire or billionaire that you know feels financially insecure. Doesn't matter whether they are worth $1m or $25bn - they are all viscerally terrified of sinking into poverty, and the sum of their decision making is a series of short term deals and compromises to avoid poverty, without any kind of higher, long-term guiding principle.

I know this especially well because I was raised in a house where everybody who is somebody in Lagos stopped by once in a while to work on a real estate deal with my old man, and I would regularly overhear everybody from bank CEOs to retired military generals and air vice marshalls saying things "Our leaders are [insert whiny complaint]." And I would wonder - who are the "leaders" that these extremely privileged people sound so oppressed and intimidated by? Is it not their friends and coursemates from Jaji?

Later on it made sense when I realised that once you are in power in Nigeria, you become God, and even your family changes its rules for you. I've seen families override their olori-ebi because one 50 year-old uncle became somebody in Abuja. Conversely, as soon as you leave power in Nigeria, you sink into total irrelevance and people treat you like your body has a smell. The entire Nigerian sense of value and self-worth is welded to money and power. Once you don't have these 2 things, you might as well be wearing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak - even your family and contemporaries stop treating you with respect.

The effect this has on elite formation is that unlike in other societies where elites gravitate toward different ideas shared by different camps, and then fight for the right to imprint those ideas on their society (Democrat vs Republican; Maoist vs Dengist; Tory vs Labour etc), privileged Nigerians ONLY gravitate toward one thing - economic power. They have no elite sense of identity outside of money in the bank, a 4-wheeled status signaller on the road, and an overpriced house in a neighbourhood that has a constant bad odour and potholes.

That is also why Nigeria's political actors do this thing called "decamping" where they switch affiliation to whatever political party is in power. Their entire conception of the world is built around access to the levers of economic power so that they can avoid ending up in a wheelbarrow in Mile 12 market.

That's literally all there is to Nigeria.

200 million sugarcane sellers.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Where do African politicians hide their money?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Local development of nuclear technology and capacity is about more than just weapons and energy as far as Iran is concerned.

It's an issue of basic survival and sovereignty. Which is why certain imperial misanthropes want to start a war over it.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

“The following types of programs are not eligible for funding:
• Construction programs;
• Scientific research;
• Programs intended primarily for the growth or institutional development of the organization;”

(In other words, the U.S. government will never fund anything that actually makes life better for you)

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

14 years after it threw Libya into chaos, the empire has returned to Tripoli with the devil's deal - get back the $30 billion in sovereign funds we seized from you on the condition that you act as our geopolitical dustbin.

And that's just the start...

[𝕵𝖆𝖞𝖈𝖊𝖊 𝕲𝖚𝖜𝖔𝖕 @jayceeguwop]

10x Bank roll builder challenge 🅾️🅱️ STYLE? What’s good?

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

One day we will wake up hear that a nationalist coup has taken place in the Republic of Congo 🇨🇬 (the other Congo, not DRC), and 81 year-old Dennis Sassou Nguesso has been removed from office after 41 years overseeing a French puppet regime.

Exactly 2 months later, every single bleeding heart oyibo liberal in the world who never had a single word to say about Congo's 41 years under a repressive French puppet dictatorship, will suddenly start asking Congolese journalists and academics about "press freedom" and "civil liberties" under the "military junta."

And if you lack common sense, a basic sense of history, and civilisational self-awareness (like so many people on this blessed continent do), you will think that these questions are actually coming from a place of giving a single fuck about what happens to 6.1 million anonymous natives in Congo Republic.

Meanwhile this is how the oyibo empire works. When the imperial peripheries rebel against the open oppression, immiseration and exploitation enforced by its installed puppets, it wheels out the bleeding heart liberals to weaponise the natives' intellectual bourgeoisie against the collective interests of the natives.

Before you know it, you start hearing about how the new government is "repressive" and there is at "atmosphere of fear" - because the one that currently exists right now in Brazaville as you're reading this doesn't count. The fear that Africans fear under European puppet leadership is fine and not worthy of noise and emotional outrage. Only the fear that they fear when the government is African Nationalist is worthy of those things.

And the church of dummies say "Amen." 🤡

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Moment in a documentary when David Hundeyin exposes how Europeans takes Africa as a farmland, but our myopic, visionless, cowardice leaders doesn’t care.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

An important snippet from my appearance on @EmirSirdam's podcast.

For those who understand the inherent danger in what I am describing here, this is useful information. For those who don't, please keep scrolling. Time is of the essence.