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[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

"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

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.

I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.

I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.

I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.

My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦‍♂️

At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.

Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

European Parliament Slanders Burkina Faso, The Spearhead Responds

In a June 18, 2026, session, the European Parliament made its latest futile attempt to slander the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso, a government which has given more to the Burkinabé people in the 4 years it has been in power, than the “benevolent” France ever attempted to in its decades lording over its former West African colony.

In this report for The Spearhead, @PanSpear weighs the EU’s latest slander campaign against the facts.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

4 years later, Gadaffi was dead and the entire Sahel belt was plunged into chaos.

So I guess we know whose side we should have taken. There's a lesson there.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Today I went shopping.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Interestingly, one of the worst things about the Nigerian character - bloviating, buffoonish overconfidence - is also a superpower that sets Nigerians apart when it is intentionally harnessed and channelled correctly.

Whenever Nigerians (born and raised in Nigeria) learn how to combine their social confidence with actual intellectual substance and a good amount of self awareness, the world will have a serious problem on its hands.

I believe in my people🙏🏿

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

She is right 💯

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Colonial mentality affects African football, same way it affects other areas of the continent’s development. I am glad the usual suspects are beginning to understand this.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Today we shed our colonial name. We are no longer Upper Volta; we are Burkina Faso—the Land of Upright People. We will pay no more imperialist debts. He who feeds you, controls you. Let us consume what we alone produce!

Thomas Sankara on African Independence & Anti-Imperialism (1984)

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Why is an airport in Niamey that shares a fence with a major military base constantly getting attacked by "terrorists" who appear to have a death wish?

Probably nothing to do with the 1,000 metric tons of yellowcake uranium currently being stored there...

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

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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[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The last time an African team south of the Sahara won a world cup knockout game was 4 world cups ago.

Uncomfortable conversations must be had.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Maybe, just maybe, at the highest levels of competition where even the tiniest differences in mentality can result in vast competitive differences, *maybe* having a national team made up of people who instinctively think of themselves as people from that nation would provide a slight competitive advantage over talented Congolese, Ivorian and Senegalese teams where half of the players think they're from France, and another third think they're from Belgium.

Maybe the fact that Harry Kane has no such identity crisis or colonial complex inside his head gives him that extra 0.1% of mental clarity to deliver when his country needs him. Maybe the fact that Yoan Wissa on the other hand has a head full of all this mental clutter contributes just a tiny little bit to dulling his output right when it needs to be sharpest.

Maybe football is a reflection of society, and a national football team reflects the character of the nation it represents. Maybe it is not possible for a society that genuinely takes no pride in itself to have a football team that takes pride in itself. Maybe it's no coincidence that in the entire history of the world cup, the competition has only been won by teams whose coach is indigenous.

Maybe the world cup is not about how individually great your Bayern Munich and Liverpool superstars are. Maybe it's about finding out whether those Villareal and Olympique Lyon stars can emotionally connect with the aspirations of the national team shirt they're wearing. Maybe neocolonial stalemate societies with zero state ambition and no shared sense of national project are never going to be anything other than colourful also-rans at the FIFA world cup.

Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and I'm just a dickhead who overthinks everything. Maybe I shouldn't even bother posting this because what fucking needle does it move anyway.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Belgium used two of our Congolese brothers, whom they will pay heavily, to score against Senegal. Football is just like African history during colonialism and slavery.💔😭

[Mukudzei Mlambo @mukudzeimlambo_]

The white man did a number on us as a continent, man. This runs deep

[Joy @Je_Suis_Joyy_]

What makes these African teams getting knocked out even worse is how condescending the commentators are when talking about them from beginning till end. I can’t take it anymore.

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

I love the World Cup. But the older I get, the more I realise it's about far more than football: each tournament tells us something about empire, migration, identity, power and the changing world. So: a few quick thoughts ! 1/5

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

People who bleach their skin, burn their hair with chemical relaxers, and name their African children "Jayden" are angry as fuck because I suggested that maybe their societal colonial inferiority complexes spill over into their national football teams.😊

Like yeah, we've built our entire identity out of being monkeys in suits speaking colonial languages with fake accents, but how DARE you suggest that the people who have had this effect on us also have a similar effect when we step onto a football pitch? What heresy.

Football after all, is very famously not connected to any real world societal or political themes at all...🤸🏿

[Sam Otigba @SamuelOtigba]

We cannot pray ourselves out of bad governance.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

But demanding their land back is where they draw the line .