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[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Mike Benz Links CIA, U.S. State Department, UK Soft Power Funding To African Musicians And Record Labels

In this video, taken from a March 22, 2026 livestream, former US State Department official Mike Benz spotlights Nigeria's Chocolate City Music Group as one of the beneficiaries under the US State Department's little-known 'American Music Mentorship Programme' - a semi-clandestine US soft power/influence operation that co-opts music artists and record labels around the world into service to American political objectives.

Later this week, The Spearhead's @Big_Mck will be releasing a long-form piece addressing the revelations from the livestream and the wider implications of American foreign influence operations embedding themselves into cultural spaces across Africa and its diaspora.

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[Grieve Chelwa @gchelwa]

Happy 102nd birthday, Amílcar Cabral!

“We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children and the unborn.”

[Leena-Palestine @Leena53022916]

*BRILLIANT*
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*

[Blessing @BlessingCypher_]

This is is the trailer...🙌

[JosinaZMachel @JosinaZMachel]

On Sept 7th 1975, My parents Graça and Samora Machel got married.

They are flanked by my maternal grandmother Nely Simbine, the First Lady of Tanzania Maria Nyerere, the First Lady of Zambia Betty Kaunda, and the President of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere.

[ηεššα 🦋 @Ovieyare]

Nollywood has a classism problem. Even when adapting a book, they’ve missed the heart of the story and are marketing it around aesthetics, instead of the themes the author actually wrote about.

What does The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives have to do with all of this?

[NgoniVixen🇿🇲 @MsMwayi]

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[NgoniVixen🇿🇲 @MsMwayi]

@idlidosa2 Ali che muguys!

[NgoniVixen🇿🇲 @MsMwayi]

@Chatnovski @OllyPepeMuleya 😂😂

[Alice M. Simushi @applechews_]

I was Yangoing a few months back. Picked up a business woman. Said she was struggling with her staff. Two girls had developed a cocaine habit and were constantly high. She fired them, but was now stressed about her alcoholic manager. Moral decay isn’t just some cliche term. It’s real and it has happened to us. We’ve become a low-trust society without values, honour, self-control, or self-accountability. Anything and everything goes. You see it everywhere. Folks living for their next high or state of drunkenness. Families crumbling under the weight of poor leadership, infidelity, addiction, negligence and disrespect. Strange and abnormal practices like secret side families being normalised. Businesses falling apart because excellent human capital is nowhere to be found. Cartels running amok and littering our streets with cheap drugs and cheap alcohol. Our borders becoming more and more porous to a point we’re now visitors in our own country. Failed justice system which will take much more than a batch of newly appointed judges to correct. Children raising themselves because their parents are equal parts the victims of trauma and the perpetrators of trauma. Churches internally struggling with credible leadership while externally putting on a brave face and preaching a gospel distorted by so much hypocrisy and sin, that the formidable miracles of old remain Bible tales. The cycle churns, day to day, week to week, month to month. A 61-year-old country; still largely clueless about who she is and all she’s capable of.

[Pure Sitcoms @PureSitcoms]

9 years ago, Jennifer Lewis, Roz Ryan, and Brandy gifted us with a modern-day Negro spiritual masterpiece.

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[WATCH] Scene from earlier: Swati Princess Sihle Mdluli of the Mawewe Royal Family celebrates with traditional dance following the successful conclusion of her lobola negotiations. #Newzroom405

[Rumbie Uncensored @RUMBIEPROPERTIE]

Congratulations Sihle 👏👏👏👏👏

[La-Ndlovu @destiny_ndlovu]

A beautiful and symbolic moment as King MisuZulu's cattle enter the Princess’s kraal. 🐄👑

[NgoniVixen🇿🇲 @MsMwayi]

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[Tinashe @baba_nyenyedzi]

The O Level was never designed as a universal school-leaving qualification. In Britain, where it originated, it was intended for roughly the top 20% of pupils on the academic grammar school track. The remaining 80% followed vocational and technical pathways. Yet Zimbabwe persists with the fiction that every child should clear an examination never meant for everyone. The predictable result is that fewer than a third “pass”, while the majority are casually branded failures.

Rural industrialisation begins by abandoning this absurdity. Every province should define its own labour absorption strategy around its comparative advantages, whether agriculture, mining, fishing or manufacturing. A minority should pursue the academic route. The majority should graduate with recognised certificates of vocational or technical competence, developed and championed by industry itself. That is how productive labour is created and productive labour is how economies grow.

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[Sipho Phiri 🇿🇲 @siphophiri]

Zambia 🇿🇲 lost a true man of the people today. Guy Scott had a boundless love for Zambia and a wit hard to match.

One of my favourites was when King Cobra once asked him 'What do you think you'd be if you were black?' and Guy calmly responded ''I'd be the President' ..much to Cobras amusement. He did go on to be the President of Zambia.

Another favourite is when he met Barack Obama and reminded Barack that King Cobra and him were the only 2 black Presidents with White Vice Presidents.

I'll miss him dearly and so, I believe, will Zambia.

[Sibu Mabena @sibumabena]

Today, our MD nervously hit publish on her very first Substack.

After 24 years in advertising, working at some of the biggest agencies on the continent, she’d never been to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. In fact, she’d never been to Europe.

So this year, the @DumaCollective team quietly saved up and surprised her with her very first trip to Europe, culminating in Cannes Lions.

Sometimes the best investment you can make is in the people who’ve spent years investing in everyone else. ❤️🥹🌟

Please read about her experience of Cannes Lions here: https://t.co/fg0Foewc9J

[NgoniVixen🇿🇲 @MsMwayi]

@Chatnovski Nephew!!!

[SiR @inglewoodSiR]

Here’s my official JoBurg set list!!! See yall Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!

https://t.co/AH5AEzxKbN