Kinuthia wa Kinyanjui | Pan-African 🌍🇰🇪

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[Kinuthia wa Kinyanjui | Pan-African 🌍🇰🇪 @f_kinyash]

From struggling to put together a team for @greensportsaf 7aside tournament to the third tier of Kenyan football. Sky is the limit @NakuruBucksFC @ck_njogu @DavidEshom
#ComeOnYouBucks

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

British Military Training In Kenya Cancelled Amid Growing Public Anger

The Kenyan government has withheld licenses from the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK) for its 2026 training program in Kenya, amid public backlash.

This backlash is itself the consequence of increasing awareness, among Kenyans, Africans and the wider international community, about the true role of the British Army in the lives of ordinary Kenyans.

A role which has left a trail of misery and death in its wake.

[Kevin Castley 🇨🇦 @KevinCastley]

@CMiller111111 Bro. STOP watching CNN.

[Esha K @eshaLegal]

Ortega did not say this he said" we will no longer have elections where parties funded by the Yankees can coup our government. The national assembly will change the laws to make parties with Yankee money ineligible "

I will put up the full clip

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Hereby we express our gratitude for the sudden illness, and we ask it to also bring the other war criminals to justice for their deeds.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

How the CIA interfered in Nigeria’s intellectual development to prevent socialist class consciousness.

In the 1960s, when Capitalist America was locked in a high-stakes Cold War with the Soviet Union, the CIA was completely terrified that newly independent African intellectuals, fresh off the heels of throwing off European colonial chains, would naturally embrace Soviet communism, Marxist-Leninist class analysis, and radical anti-capitalist revolutions against their former Western colonizers. Instead of deploying fighter jets, heavy artillery, and ballistic missiles to fight this specific ideological battle, the CIA masterfully weaponized money, art, academic funding, and literature. Their calculated goal was to gently, subliminally steer the brightest African minds toward Western liberal democracy, competitive individualism, and free-market capitalism, and decisively away from revolutionary, socialist class consciousness.

The CIA obviously could not openly hand over dollar bills to proud Nigerian writers, because this was the fiery era of sovereign, anti-colonial struggles against Western imperialism, and absolutely no self-respecting, anti-colonial intellectual would ever accept direct funding from Washington. So, the CIA brilliantly funneled millions of dollars through a highly sophisticated, covert front organization called the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), and a philanthropic shell foundation called the Farfield Foundation. Operating out of its luxurious headquarters in Paris, the CCF presented itself as a wealthy, independent, and progressive organization dedicated strictly to promoting "freedom of expression", sponsoring literary magazines, and supporting avant-garde artists worldwide. In reality, every single cent of its operational budget was directed, controlled, and funded by the CIA.

To prevent militant, socialist networks from ever forming on the continent, the CIA recognized that it needed to build, control, and monopolize the physical platforms where African intellectuals gathered, ensuring these spaces were firmly, safely aligned with Western interests. In 1961, the historic Mbari Club was founded in the university town of Ibadan, Nigeria. It rapidly became the most vibrant, electrifying, and celebrated center for literature, theater, poetry, and visual arts in West Africa. It served as the ultimate gathering place for Nigeria's rising literary titans, including Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and J.P. Clark. What these brilliant, fiercely patriotic young Nigerians did not know was that the Mbari Club was heavily, consistently subsidized by the CIA through the Farfield Foundation and the CCF. By secretly funding the lease of the building, the publishing costs of their journals, the travel allowances of the writers, and the logistics of their events, the CIA successfully ensured that the very epicenter of Nigerian intellectual life was tied to Western patronage and not Soviet sponsorship.

This initial reality does seem highly counterintuitive and paradoxical because it was inside this exact Mbari Club that some of the most powerful, enduring Pan-African thoughts were conceived. Chinua Achebe published "Things Fall Apart", which contained a powerful anti-colonial consciousness that permanently shattered the racist Western propaganda claiming Africans had no history, culture, or civilization prior to the arrival of white men with their gunboats. Additionally, Wole Soyinka wrote "A Dance of the Forests" to sharply interrogate the political hubris of the newly independent political class, Christopher Okigbo composed his prophetic, avant-garde modernist poetry, and J.P. Clark captured the visceral human textures of local life. These monumental, anti-colonial Pan-African works were successfully produced largely because the CIA did not openly tell Nigerian writers what to write, or try to dictate their creative processes.

If the CIA had literally walked into the Mbari Club in Ibadan and tried to explicitly dictate, censor, or micromanage the conversations, brilliant, uncompromising minds like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe would have rejected them and thrown them out immediately. Instead, the CIA brilliantly used its funding to act as a silent, invisible gatekeeper. They did not have to physically silence, ban, or arrest radical Marxist writers. They simply, strategically made sure that the non-Marxist, liberal writers had the biggest megaphones, the widest distribution networks, and the highest international platforms. By quietly funding the Mbari Club's rent, covering their publishing costs, and bankrolling their international travel to prestigious global conferences, the CIA successfully ensured that writers who focused on individualism, local culture, and bourgeois aesthetics became celebrated global superstars. Meanwhile, radical writers who focused on working-class solidarity, anti-capitalist struggles, and socialist revolutions remained underfunded, unpublished, and completely obscure.
The CIA in the 1960s was perfectly fine with, and even actively promoted, anti-colonialism, cultural negritude, and African artistic pride. What they were absolutely terrified of was class warfare. They desperately wanted to steer African intellectuals toward Cultural Nationalism (the safe, performative celebration of African identity) and decisively away from Marxist Socialism (which involved organizing, educating, and arming the peasantry to overthrow capitalist structures).

The CIA could care less how the newly independent African celebrated their tribal heritage, and whatever beautiful poetry they wrote about the glory of their ancestors was none of their business. They would happily, enthusiastically promote you even if you fiercely criticized European racism, British colonialism, or white supremacy. They could easily tolerate all of these cultural protests so long as Nigeria's massive oil wealth, raw resources, and cash crops continued to flow to Western capitals completely uninterrupted. What they were absolutely terrified of, and heavily, invisibly censored, was class consciousness. Writers who explored socialist ideas, class struggle, and anti-capitalist revolutions were simply not eligible for Western funding, international distribution, or global marketing, which successfully ensured that their works were buried completely away from public view. This was because they knew that if the African working class were enlightened about Marxist thought, they would immediately rebel against the local comprador class, organize general strikes, and dismantle the entire capitalist system that has reduced them to peasants in their own homeland. It is also critically important to emphasize that the CIA was perfectly happy to see the Mbari Club uplift the colonized African. This is because the primary motive for spending millions of dollars funding the Mbari Club was absolutely not about stopping the intellectual "uplifting" of Africans, but rather about completely controlling how they were uplifted.

It is crucial to note that the young Nigerian writers were completely unwitting, innocent participants. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and others had absolutely no idea that their creative sanctuary was secretly being funded by American intelligence agents.
In 1967, courageous investigative journalists exposed the fact that the CCF and the Farfield Foundation were actually covert CIA fronts. African intellectuals across the continent felt deeply betrayed, humiliated, and outraged. However, by that time, the CIA's covert mission had already largely succeeded: the foundational, defining era of post-colonial Nigerian literature and intellectual thought had been established, funded, and firmly anchored in Western liberal traditions, successfully steering an entire generation of our greatest thinkers completely away from Soviet socialism.

[Zack Sande @SandeZack]

@astro_bram Nairobi Kenya and Amsterdam Netherlands 1954

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Ever wondered why ‘pacifists’ like Gandhi have been venerated in the west and revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh who called for violent armed resistance to British colonialism vilified?

They have always wanted us to just die quietly so they can do their colonizing with the least problems, and in order to achieve that they had to convince the native that the native must prove they are not the ‘barbarians’ the ‘civilized’ coloniser claim them to be.

And the only way that can be proven is if the native appeals to the colonizer’s ‘inherent’ humanity by exercising the native’s right to ‘peaceful’ protest that the coloniser so benevolently has allowed.

The glorification/exploitation of non-violent resistance to colonial violence is rooted in orientalism.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

After some time, dear Africans, we will have to learn to read beyond these cheap, racist provocations and not react every time some godforsaken mzungu complains about our visibility. This is a trick to get us not to question why African national teams seem incapable of winning the World Cup yet the problem is clearly not the talent. Meanwhile, we are getting catharsis from standing up against racism. Think, people.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Why Isr*el-Linked Billionaire Gave $554K to South African Anti-Migrant Groups

The South African anti-migrant movement might not be so influential were it not for one Isr*el-linked billionaire.

South African activist July Eccles explained the impact of gambling tycoon Martin Moshal’s political donations on Johannesburg-based broadcaster @salaamedia's programme, “Xenophobia in South Africa: Is There a Hidden Hand Stirring the Chaos?”

A recent South African Electoral Commission report on political donations showed that the South African-born billionaire had given 9 million South African rand ($610,000) to anti-migrant political party ActionSA in 2026’s first quarter. According to South Africa-based Newsday, Moshal had donated 103 million South African rand ($6.35 million) to four anti-migrant political parties since the 2021-22 fiscal year.

Is South Africa’s x*nophobic sentiment actually smaller than what it seems? Drop us a comment if you agree or disagree.

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[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

The celebrations of Congolese refugee children in Burundi after DR Congo's historic goal against England say it all. I hope the Leopards win—for these kids. 🇨🇩🔥

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is a member of the EU parliament saying the same things I say here on a daily basis about Europe and its activities in our region.

The EU parliamentarian is also a "conspiracy theorist" and "CIA man" too, I guess.

Whenever you miserable, dumb bastards wake up...

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

@WilliamsRuto Trying too hard to be 'Trump'😂😂

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This is why when faced with Sankara's dilemma of 'water for all or champagne for a few', smart nations always choose water for all.

Because when everyone has a solid baseline, the elite can truly thrive and become exceptional. Their "champagne" can be meaningful.

But when most people are dirt poor, the elite become stupid, mediocre bastards who cannot pave their own roads, organise their own garbage collection, and prevent their own Ikoyi from regular flooding, constant foul odour, and mosquito infestation.

Charterhouse my ass.