Mr Favour

An African.
I learn every day.

[Mr Favour @ritzsmart]

Nigerians wake up!

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Africa Set To Become A Global Energy Hub

Since kicking off operations in 2024, the Dangote Refinery has made the oil-rich Nigeria a net exporter of refined petroleum for the first time in its history. This year, it has seen Nigeria beat the United States as Europe’s top supplier of jet fuel, secured a $2.5 billion investment to increase its production capacity, and is looking to expand to East Africa.

All of these developments bode well for Africa’s energy future, and it is important that Africans understand that there is no economic prosperity without abundant, cheap energy.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Aimé Césaire wrote it in 1950 and Europe has been trying to ignore it ever since.

In Discourse on Colonialism, he stated plainly: what the "very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century" found unforgivable about Hitler was not what he did.

It was to whom he did it.

Hitler applied to European people the methods that Europe had been applying to African and Asian people for centuries.

The dehumanization.
The racial hierarchy.
The biological categorization that placed some human beings outside the protections extended to others.
The organized, bureaucratic, industrialized killing.

None of that was new.

The novelty was the victims.

When Léopold II ran the Congo as a personal extraction enterprise and killed an estimated ten million people — when his agents cut off the hands of Congolese workers who did not meet their rubber quotas, when they took photographs of the severed hands arranged in rows, European civilization was not seized by an unprecedented moral crisis.

It was a business story.

A question of colonial administration.

A management problem in a distant place populated by people whose deaths registered as statistics, when they registered at all.

Hitler's crime, in European memory, was not the method.

It was the application of the method to people Europe had decided were people.

That decision, who counts, is what Césaire was writing about.

It has not been adequately answered.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

The White Man’s Arrogance Makes Him Stupid – Captain Ibrahim Traoré

On July 16, 2026, Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré paid a visit to the city of Ouahigouya in the Yaadga region of his country, and delivered a powerful address to the Burkinabé people, and the people of Africa as a whole.

An address which is presently sending shockwaves across Africa’s information space.

In this excerpt from the Yaadga address, Traoré comments on why Burkina Faso has been under attack for the last 10 years, and the arrogance of the Western backers behind this terror campaign.

This arrogance, Traoré observes, is rooted in colonialism, and has made the enemies of Africa increasingly more desperate and increasingly more predictable, as the continent continues to break its colonial chains.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Joshua Maponga: Stop Parroting Other People's Ideologies!

Why are so many educated Africans unable to think outside the western-imposed paradigm of "democracy" concerning what style of governance would work best for their countries?

In this clip, Zimbabwean author and philosopher Joshua Maponga has a go at this class of Africans for their habit of repeating western ideas and narratives with no attempt to come up with an original thought of their own.

Do you agree with him? Let us know in the comments. Don't forget to follow The Spearhead.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The ruling class does not fear your anger.

It has focus groups for your anger. It has consultants who have modeled your anger and priced in your anger and designed messaging strategies calibrated to your anger that redirect it toward their preferred targets.

Left anger gets redirected at the right. Right anger gets redirected at the left.

The people funding both redirect flows meet for dinner and discuss the quarterly results.

What they have not fully modeled is contempt.

Contempt is different from anger. Anger wants to be heard, wants to win, wants to change something. Anger still believes in the arena.

Contempt has stopped believing in the arena.

Contempt looks at the Senate hearing and sees theater. Looks at the election and sees casting. Looks at the press conference and hears the specific cadence of people who know that nothing they say will have consequences and have long since stopped trying to make it true.

Contempt is not a political position that can be triangulated against.

It is a withdrawal of legitimacy.

And when enough people withdraw it simultaneously, not to a different party, not to a different candidate, but from the entire performance, the performance becomes very expensive to maintain.

They can manage your vote.

They cannot manufacture your belief.

And they are running, for the first time in a long time, genuinely low on it.

[Mr Favour @ritzsmart]

Knowing is never enough!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Nobody in power is afraid of your awareness.

They have made peace with your awareness.

They have planned for your awareness.

You can know about the coup.
The Wikipedia article exists.
The documentary is on a streaming service.
The book won an award.
The journalist who exposed it gave a TED talk.

None of that costs them anything.

What costs them something is organized, sustained, material opposition.

Strikes.
Boycotts.
Political parties that mean it.
The willingness to be uncomfortable for longer than a news cycle.

They are not afraid of the people who know.

They are afraid of the people who know and decide that knowing is not enough.

You have given them very little to be afraid of.

You have given them an enormous amount of awareness and almost no consequences.

They consider this a favorable arrangement.

They are correct.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Africa Stands With Captain Ibrahim Traoré

On July 16, 2026, Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré paid a visit to the city of Ouahigouya in the Yaadga region of the country, and delivered a powerful address to the Burkinabé people, and the people of Africa as a whole.

An address which is presently sending shockwaves across Africa’s information space.

In this report for the Spearhead, @barrahart shares his thoughts on 3 key moments from this address, and what they mean for Africa’s future.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

We live on a planet where the country that overthrew Iran's democracy in 1953 is "concerned about Iranian authoritarianism."

Where the country that funded Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons program in the 1980s launched a war in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein for having chemical weapons.

Where the country that armed, trained, and created the conditions for the Taliban spent twenty years fighting the Taliban.

Where the country that sanctioned Iraq through the 1990s, killing an estimated 500,000 children through the denial of medicine and food, a number Madeleine Albright called "worth it" on national television, explained that it was doing so because it cared about the Iraqi people.

I am not asking you to hate America.

I am asking you to read the sentences above without looking away, and then tell me, with a straight face, that the question is whether to believe them.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

A prominent Nigerian journalist is currently weeping on live television over the devastating economic hardship ravaging the country. According to his emotional outburst, Nigeria actively lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the IMF and the World Bank during the 1970s, but today, the country is plagued with a catastrophic budget deficit, a crippled currency, and must continuously beg and borrow from those same institutions just to balance the books.

However, as painful and tragic as this economic reality is, we must have the courage to call this exactly what it is: performative journalism. I consider every genuine, conscious intellectual in Africa to be an ideological soldier, whose sole duty, mandate, and historical responsibility is to shed uncompromising light on the structural truth, expose the mechanics of power, and push a relentless enlightenment campaign through their writings, broadcasts, and public speeches. Instead of shedding dramatic tears for the cameras, what Rufai Oseni should have actually done is use his massive national platform to remind Nigerians that this current crisis is simply another devastating form of neocolonialism.

In 1974, OPEC was the supreme, undisputed kingmaker in the global oil and gas industries, controlling international energy prices and dictating exactly how the world's most treasured energy resource should be managed. While many Western economies were struggling, suffocating, and facing severe recessions in the 1970s, OPEC nations like Nigeria were rapidly growing their foreign reserves, as hundreds of millions of dollars in cash-crop oil revenues flowed into our economy every single day. This was the exact moment Western banks and international financial institutions sent highly trained economic hitmen to these newly independent, oil-rich nations. They actively encouraged Nigeria to lend its massive capital to the IMF and the World Bank to help other struggling nations (which were almost exclusively Western European powers), and directly persuaded our leaders to invest their oil revenues back into European banks. Nigeria, under the naive, submissive leadership of General Yakubu Gowon, eagerly accepted this trap, sending hundreds of millions of dollars in interest-free loans to help stabilize the economies of Europe. At this highly lucrative point in our history, there was not a single functional domestic refinery in Nigeria, no world-class scientific research institutions, no robust road networks connecting remote agricultural villages to the cities, no stable electricity grids, no modern healthcare facilities, and no industrialized agricultural sectors. Yet, Nigeria was flatly told by Western economists that they were insanely rich and should be lending out their capital. Gowon enthusiastically agreed, notoriously boasting to the world: "We are so rich we don't know what to do with money."

Ironically, the moment oil prices crashed as OPEC's geopolitical influence weakened (due to massive new oil discoveries in the North Sea by the United Kingdom and Norway, and the Soviet Union rapidly ramping up production to become the largest producer on earth) the global financial-industrial complex closed its trap. The American Federal Reserve aggressively raised interest rates to unprecedented heights, triggering massive capital flight, a dollar squeeze, and a devastating global recession. Nigeria immediately began to feel the heat. Because our ruling class consisted largely of comprador elites who consistently put the financial interests of their colonial masters over the material well-being of their own people, and who had agreed to ship hundreds of millions of dollars to stabilize European economies without investing in local industries, domestic refineries, or robust educational systems, the country was hit with catastrophic force. The economy of the state was pushed to the absolute brink of collapse. It was at this precise, desperate moment that General Ibrahim Babangida was ushered into military power with full Western backing. He immediately ran to the IMF for emergency loans. This time, however, the IMF did not offer Nigeria the free, juicy, and interest-free loans that Nigeria had so generously lent to them in the 1970s. Instead, this bailout came with extortionate interest rates and highly humiliating, structural austerity measures known as the "Structural Adjustment Programme" (SAP). Under the SAP, the Nigerian state was forcefully compelled to remove vital subsidies, aggressively devalue the Naira, open up their local markets for foreign corporate cartels, systematically defund public education, and drastically cut funding for healthcare. This economic shock caused unprecedented, generational hardship, completely wiped out the emerging middle class, and permanently stifled the industrial growth of Nigeria.

So, instead of weeping and shedding theatrical tears on live TV, Rufai Oseni could have used his highly coveted platform to properly, structurally educate Nigerians on this neocolonial development. Our economic condition is indeed deeply gross, shameful, and painful beyond words, but we cannot afford to be emotional; we need to be strong, highly calculative, and analytically rigorous. We must understand that Nigeria cannot continue to operate on the temporary charisma of a single, isolated leader without a deeply institutionalized, scientific ideology. If our leaders continue to blindly adopt all the macroeconomic dogmas, currency floatations, and policy templates handed over to them from Washington, they will always operate an economy designed strictly to please their white colonial masters over the material welfare of their own people.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Take any population on earth.

For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.

Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.

Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.

Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.

When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.

Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.

Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.

Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.

Put the results on a map.

Call the map a "nature documentary."

Tell yourself the scores show something biological.

Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.

Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.

You did not follow the evidence.

You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.

And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.

[Mr Favour @ritzsmart]

@WhatsApp Reserve huh? You're trying to play catch-up with telegram.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Here is a hidden mechanism through which the Nigerian government is quietly taxing Nigerians, while no one talks about Tinubu’s New Tax Regime anymore. They don't teach you this in school.

WATCH & SHARE to educate others.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

AI For The Poor, Human Intelligence For The Rich

Western capitalists are selling AI to us as “the great equalizer”. But it is really not.
What we are seeing is a new class system being built in real time. The rich will still pay for human teachers, human doctors, human consultants, human artists, and human care. Everyone else will be told that an AI version is good enough.

When poor children are offered AI tutors instead of more teachers or working-class patients are pushed toward AI health tools instead of proper medical care, we should pay attention.

AI may be useful, but it is also becoming a cheaper substitute for people who already have less. This is why African governments must be very careful about the AI policies they adopt. We cannot afford to copy and paste technology policies from the West without asking whose interests they serve. If we are not careful, AI will become another tool used to manage poverty instead of solving the systems that created it.

Africans also need to be more critical of how AI is being introduced into education, healthcare, governance, welfare, and other public services. Who owns the technology? Who controls the data? Who profits from the contracts? Who is accountable when these systems fail? And most importantly, who is being asked to accept AI instead of real human care?

Africa must not become a testing ground for Western-imposed systems that deepen inequality under the guise of innovation.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Colonial Infrastructure in Africa Was Built for Extraction, Not ‘Civilisation’

Anti-imperialist podcaster Triploi, says that the c*lonialist argument that they ‘civilised’ Africa by "building roads and infrastructure" whitewashes hundreds of years of a campaign to steal African wealth on an industrial scale using infrastructure that they built specifically to aid the wholesale plunder of an entire continent.

A 2021 paper published in the New Political Economy journal calculated that the Global North still extracts $2.2 trillion annually from the Global South. Colonialism it seems, has not ended at all.

Let us know in the comments if you agree with the podcaster.

For more like this, follow The Spearhead.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

EFF Spokesperson: South Africa’s Latest Anti-Immigration Wave Is Externally Funded, Not Organic

In recent months, South Africa has witnessed a tragically familiar resurgence of anti-immigrant viol*nce, fueled by the oldest trick in the colonial book: “divide and conquer”. At a time when predatory Western corporations are kicking against the country’s equality laws – aimed at ensuring its African majority actually benefits from its economy – and when the US government is actively supporting separatist groups in the country led by white supr*macists, the timing of this resurgence could not be more telling.

Under the false pretext of “protecting” their country from “crim*nals”, a noisy minority of historically-illiterate South Africans has flooded the streets, hunting down and att*cking Africans from other nations, blocking their children at the gates of schools, and calling for them to return to their countries. The African Union and human rights groups have strongly condemned these violations. Ghana and Nigeria have since summoned their South African envoys over them. And through it all, the neocolonial forces that are actually responsible for the economic state of Africa’s longest and most directly colonized nations continue to enjoy their eternal free pass.

In this June 8, 2026, interview, Sinawo Thambo, South African Member of Parliament and National Spokesperson for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, comments on the forces behind this malicious movement, and where the necessary funding may be coming from.

[Mr Favour @ritzsmart]

@Chetuyachinago Thank you this is very educating

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Ask a supporter of the U.S. empire:

"How many countries has your government bombed in your lifetime?"

Watch the blank stare.

Then ask:

"How many times have you been told your country is a force for good?"

Watch the smile.

They are not stupid.

They are saturated.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Tanzania Is Our Strait Of Hormuz - Dr Maponga to Tanzanian Journalists

At the screening of 'What Happened on October 29?', Dr. Maponga had a direct message for Tanzanian journalists: Stand with the truth.

African Journalism cannot afford to be lazy or driven by external narratives. If claims are being made about Tanzania, Tanzanian journalists must be the ones asking the hardest questions, verifying the facts, and telling the world what is really happening on the ground.

Dr. Maponga challenged journalists to look beyond party politics and understand Tanzania’s strategic place in regional and global power struggles. Tanzania sits at the center of trade routes, ports, railways, minerals, and competing global interests.

So when violence, instability, and misinformation spread, journalists must ask: who benefits? Who pays the price? And whose future is being destroyed?

[Mr Favour @ritzsmart]

@mayordeah_ Simple, divide and conquer.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Kwame Ture and Angela Davis: Capitalism Is Monopoly and Exploitation, Not Equal Opportunity

One of the most ubiquitous ideas pushed on Africans is that capitalism is the gold standard around which a society should be organised because it presents every member of society with an "equal opportunity" to achieve economic self-actualisation, subject only to individual hard work and creativity.

In this public lecture, Kwame Ture and Angela Davis deconstruct this myth by disproving its central tenet: that there is a "level playing field" for all participants.