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[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

African Proverb Of The Week

In pre-colonial African culture, the collective was viewed as the ultimate source of power. Reality was viewed not as a sum of parts, but a whole, and the community as a circle that could never be broken. Long before the European colonizer ever stepped foot on the African continent, the collective nurtured, protected, preserved and thrived.

Thanks to centuries of colonialism, this truth about the wholeness of reality has been mostly forgotten. Rather than nurture, protect and preserve the whole, many Africans today seek individual success and validation within the colonizer’s system. Blinded by the West’s pathological individualism and the divisions it imposed on their continent, many Africans exhaust their time, energy and resources on literally anything but their own collective prosperity. The colonial system continues to thrive, and the continent continues to suffer, creating more division, justifying more fragmentation, and the vicious cycle repeats.

This African proverb comes from the Kalanga people of Zimbabwe and Botswana. It reminds us that for Africa to rise again, it must remember its ancient wisdom, and unify against the parasites who forced it to forget. This was the dream of its great modern Pan-Africanist leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba and Thomas Sankara.

And for the first time in generations, the dream of these leaders is alive again in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Whenever we wake up is our morning...even if our morning comes at 89 years old.

My personal morning came at 33.

I hope all you all experience your individual daybreaks soon.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

"Socialism with Nigerian characteristics" is a phrase I hope to see a lot more of.

I'd love to discuss what it could mean and what it would look like in practise.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Why does so much of African journalism - even that which is produced by Africans in Africa - reflect the priorities and goals of everyone EXCEPT Africans?

@joyfwen explores this for @Spearhead_Af

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

In 1969, the South African government forcibly removed the Makuleke people from their ancestral land in the Pafuri region to make way for the expansion of the Kruger National Park.

The Makuleke had lived for more than a century in a well-watered country near the Limpopo river. Their staple food was mabele and millet, which unlike maize, one could get at least a bag or so even in a bad harvest year. They had plenty of water, wild fruit, guinea-fowl, buck and river fish.

This was until they were uprooted to an arid, reclaimed game reserve, where only mopane worms flourish, where they learned to eat the worms.

They were not politely asked to move either. Government demolisher vehicles came while the men were away working in the cities and the women struggled to build houses during the harsh winter months with no poles or grass to even build makeshift shelters.

The winter months passed into spring and into rainy summer. They ploughed their gardens but the harvest from the arid soil was nil. In the second year, rain drowned the young crops and the third year heat scorched the crops so badly they could be set on fire.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, “For four successive years there was nothing to reap. Death ravaged the settlement. In the fifth year there was some promise of a good year. But wild beasts, especially buffaloes, baboons, monkeys and buck, as well as hares, caused complete destruction. Those who set traps to catch them were jailed for five years and more. They were told they should have reported and asked the white Bantu commissioners to go and shoot these beasts. The beasts ravage at night and the white commissioners are hundreds of kilometres away!”

At nearby Sibasa, people had been resettled in the “wrong” place and within a year they had to be removed again. Upon removal, grass for thatch was hard to get and reclaiming the old thatch broke the grass and meant a leaky roof. When journalists came, the women sat in front of their half-thatched huts with no fire, no shelter for their pit latrines and no privacy whatsoever.

Women and children had to walk as far as six kilometres for water, balancing 20 to 25 litres on their heads and carrying in their hands litres to drink along the way. Irrigation dams were restricted for watering government cash crops.

One community demonstrator organised women and old men to dig out the dry bed of a stream to reserve water when the rain came. After two rainy months the water was full in the dam. Then came the dry season, women were allowed to climb up the dam wall and then down to the water, but the dam was black with tadpoles. They had no choice but to carry the tadpoles along and strain the water before drinking.

All of this hardship was unleashed upon natives under the guise of “nature conservation”. People who had lived sustainably with their environment for generations, who knew how to weather bad harvests and draw abundance from their rivers, were seen as obstacles to “preserving” nature and uprooted to a landscape that offered nothing but worms and poverty.

Today, that same land is celebrated as the Makuleke Contractual Park, a “biodiversity hotspot” with walking safaris. The tourists are never told that the ecological richness that they fly across the world to admire was paid for with the humiliation of the people who once called it home.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

A few months ago before the start of the war against Iran, Europe, rejected oil coming from Africa. They say it was not up to standard.. now they’re begging the Africans to ship oil to them.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Niger To Provide 1000 Affordable Housing Units To Citizens, Near Completing First Batch

The Nigerien government is set to deliver 1000 affordable housing units to the people of Niger as part of its Cité de la Refondation (“City of Refoundation”) social housing initiative, launched in 2024 by the administration of Nigerien President Abdourahmane Tchiani. As of April 10, 2026, the first batch of 400 homes is near completion. The Cité de la Refondation initiative comes amid many bold steps forward for the once economically and politically stagnant West African nation, since it severed ties with former colonizer France in 2023.

As a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Niger has faced relentless attacks by Western-backed terrorists, economic isolation and sovereignty violations by Western-aligned African states, and endless slander from Western and Western-aligned media. Despite these externally-imposed challenges, the country and its fellow AES members, Mali and Burkina Faso, have continued to record economic and political wins.

All 3 nations have pointed to France as a key sponsor of terror in the Sahel – a claim which has been corroborated by their international allies – and France itself, along with its fellow Western nations, has made no bones about its intentions to revive its dwindling influence in Africa, and in so doing, shore up its own presently crumbling economy.

Recall that on March 11, 2026, the European Parliament called for the release of French-backed former Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, who was detained in 2023 by the Tchiani administration for his crimes against the Nigerien people.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

They Do Not Like Me. They Like the Revolutionary Ideology - Captain Ibrahim Traoré

In his April 2026 interview with Sky News Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir, Burkina Faso's President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, described his leadership as being rooted in an ideology centered on dignity, self-reliance, and practical development.

He pointed to the visible progress across healthcare, agriculture, infrastructure, transportation, education, and industry, saying these are the reasons many young people identify with his government.

From lower medication costs and better-equipped hospitals to free or subsidised agricultural support, road construction, factory jobs, buses for urban transport, and improved university and school facilities, Traoré’s administration is one focused on restoring basic dignity and expanding opportunity for ordinary Burkinabè. His comments showed a vision of national renewal built on state-led development, and the knowledge that African countries can use their own resources and labour to transform living conditions for their people.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Getting gas in Tehran

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

One of the most shameless lies still told about colonialism is that European powers gifted Africa its roads, its schools, its hospitals. Shut up! You gifted us nothing. We built it, we paid for it, we bled for it.
Those roads were not built so African farmers could trade with each other or so African communities could grow. They were built to move our minerals and our crops from the interior to the ports and ship them to Europe.

Every kilometre of colonial railway followed the same logic: not to serve us, but to drain us. The hospitals were built to keep labourers alive enough to keep working, not because colonial administrators believed African lives had value, but because a sick worker interrupts the extraction schedule. My grandmother was denied treatment for her twins dying of smallpox because my grandfather was in prison for resisting colonial rule. She lost one of them.

And who built any of it? Our grandparents. Forced, beaten, worked into the ground under quotas, mutilated when they failed to meet them. When someone calls that a gift, what they are really asking is that we thank our oppressors for the infrastructure our own suffering produced.

We also paid for it in cash. In 1932, French colonial commissioner Robert de Guise imposed new taxes on Togolese people whose incomes had already collapsed by nearly sixty percent during the Great Depression. When women dared to protest, France shipped 174 colonial soldiers from Côte d'Ivoire to crush them. Girls as young as thirteen were raped and 12 protesters were killed. That is how the roads, the schools, the administrative buildings, the hospitals were financed: with our blood. Not European generosity.

And when independence finally came, the colonisers left with a bill. They calculated the cost of everything they had built through our coerced labour and our taxed income, called it colonial debt, and demanded repayment from the very nations they had spent a century looting. We paid for our own exploitation. Twice!

In Europe, when a government builds a road, no citizen is asked to be grateful. It is called public service. But when colonisers built infrastructure on our land, with our bodies, with our money, after killing and raping us, we are expected to call it the "benefits of colonialism". The audacity!

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

This notion that Muslims are slaughtering Christians in Nigeria is western propaganda.

They are intentionally using the legal term “genocide” because that mandates military intervention which is the pretext America needs to invade Nigeria under the guise of “liberating Christian’s”

America is being strangled by China who has a monopoly over “rare earths” and the refining process which is extremely environmentally toxic. Last year China imposed a 95% restriction on all rare earths to America.

So America plans to make a new Congo in Nigeria but 1st they need their proxies to clear the civilians from the rich deposit areas.

That’s the truth and more Muslims are being killed than Christians that is not to diminish the killing of Christians it’s to be accurate in what is happening.

Do your research and stop listening to zionist controlled western media bullshit!

[Onyeka ☭ @R_eq_uin]

This is why we need to come together for our "collective selfish interests"

Blowing up Cape Town, Lagos or Nairobi is easy, and they could cook up excuses for it.

"white genocide"
"Nigerian Christians"

... But blowing up an alliance of Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, The AES and a few other heavyweight African countries is extremely difficult and tantamount to imperial suicide.

If they start feeling funky we will cut off rare earths, copper, uranium, oil etc.

They will be forced to negotiate hat in hand.

They can't even win a propaganda war because we'd have the "we are resisting the colonizers again" narrative.

How would they whip up their extremely polarized population and 13% black citizens to go and enslave Africans thousands of kilometers away whose desire is to simple live their lives?

What story could they cook up that would cover Lagos to Durban?

Their sanctions would also quickly become.

Because we'd have a common African currency, infinite pool of labor and all the resources we need to live.

Plus China, Russia and maybe even India are right there if we need to import anything.

Their dollar/Euro sanctions won't be worth shit!

Again, this shit is very doable.

We don't even have to like each other all that much.

We just have to realize that it's either we prosper while working together, or get picked off one by one and bombed back to the stone age.

In short we must learn from the colonizers:

Europeans were putting knives in each other's kidneys for CENTURIES before they shook hands and decided to pillage the rest of the world instead.

Now China has broken their model and they desperately need to come and plunder us even harder to close the gap.

Africa, it's either we unite or die.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Burkina Faso Records 45% Drop In Terror-Related Deaths Under Ibrahim Traoré’s Leadership

Since its formation in 2024, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) – comprising Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – has faced relentless attacks by Western-backed terrorists, economic isolation and sovereignty violations by Western-aligned African states, and endless slander from Western and Western-aligned media. Despite these externally-imposed challenges, its member states have continued to record economic and political wins, and the West is clearly not happy.

On April 2nd, 2026, US-based Western propaganda outlet @hrw put out a report alleging that the Burkina Faso military had perpetrated war crimes over the last 2 years, leading to the deaths of over 1200 innocent Burkinabé citizens. The report was quickly amplified by Western media, but didn’t have quite its intended effect. It was met with immediate backlash from Africans of good conscience across the Motherland and its diaspora, as well as the Burkina Faso government itself, which pointed out the report’s dishonest methodology, its unreliable sources, and the clear nefarious motives of its authors.

In this report for the Spearhead, @okorieuche_ examines the reality behind the harrowing picture that this “report” attempts to paint of Burkina Faso, and what it means for Africa.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Colonialism Taught African Women to Hate Their Own Hair

African hair was never just about appearance. It carried identity, culture, and meaning. Colonialism disrupted that, stripped it down, and replaced it with a system that taught African women to see their natural hair as something to fix, manage, or hide.

What we now call preference did not appear out of nowhere. It was shaped over time, reinforced through schools, workplaces, and media, until straight hair became the standard and everything else had to adjust.

So the real question is not what African women are choosing today. The question is why those choices feel necessary, and who defined that necessity in the first place.

If there is any real conversation to be had, it is this: how much of what we call beauty is actually ours, and how much of it was imposed on us.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

The Mis-Education of Africa: Why Africa’s Schools Ignore Resources, Power, and Global Systems

The Spearhead’s Kangmwa Gofwen examines how Africa’s education system, far from being a tool of liberation, was structured to produce disconnection from history, power, and self-determination. It argues that colonial schooling did not simply sideline African knowledge and identity, but also deliberately failed to teach generations of Africans how global systems actually work, from international finance and resource extraction to shipping routes, geopolitics, and the institutions that shape the modern world.

The result is an education that rewards memorisation over critical understanding and produces graduates who can speak the language of development without being equipped to challenge the systems that keep the continent dependent.

This is a call to rethink what education in Africa should be for. It urges a shift away from inherited curricula that centre Europe and detach African students from their own realities, and toward an education rooted in African history, practical knowledge, and strategic understanding of global power.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

Patterns in chaos

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

A joint US-Nigerian military operation is ‘accidentally’ bombing innocent civilians in Northern Nigeria.

A few days ago, Amerrika issued warning to Embassy Staff to leave Nigeria.

The results are coming in already with indiscriminate bombings like this one.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This video is both heartbreaking and life-inspiring.

A film crew tries to film the destruction caused by US/Israeli bombing at an apartment complex in Iran. One of the tenants, an old man whose apartment has been almost completely shattered, insists on inviting the film crew in and offering them something to eat.

"We have only come to film, we don't want anything," the crew says.

But the old man insists on at least offering them oranges and apples.

Ultimately, those who come out victorious from conflicts are those who retain their dignity. Who never let war make them lose their humanity and self-respect.

Who, even in the worst of situations, insist on upholding sacred traditions and beliefs, including that of hospitality.

That's what makes a civilization indestructible.

Please remember this video and do your best to forget the videos of the lost souls dancing and cheering on the streets when their countrymen, women, and children were being killed by "democracy and freedom" bombs.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Africa does not need an educational system that produces bankers, business executives, marketers, politicians, brokers, or lawyers. These skills have no relevance to us, or to any society at all. They were invented to solve simulated problems.

Think about it: as part of the earliest forms of society, you wouldn’t need all these soft skills and fancy professions. All you would need are people who can think, build, and correct (heal): engineers, doctors, craftsmen, who can then pass that knowledge on to others (teachers).

If, as a developing nation, your education system prioritizes producing people who can read, follow instructions, and pass exams just to become business administrators, marketers, or lawyers, then you are not serious about development.

This is why the current educational system (handed to us by the West) has to be ditched and replaced with one that is relevant to our present stage of industrialisation.

Schools don't have to be formal, they just need to be practical about teaching children how to think and build.

After all. The ‘formal’ in formal education only means ‘certified.’ You have to ask yourself, certified by whom? An English-speaking European?

If you create your own system and certify it, it is still formal. Don't allow English language deceive you.

[NessrineN 🇵🇸🔻 @iNessrineN]

The result of decades of orchestrated dehumanization is that large massacres are referred to as ceasefire violations