There are 196 tribes on Earth that still refuse all contact with outsiders. Brazil has 115 of them, more than any country, and its government flies planes over their villages on purpose.
The flyovers exist because of a brutal catch in how Brazil protects land. Forest only gets shielded as Indigenous territory if FUNAI, the Indigenous affairs agency, can prove isolated people actually live there. No proof, and loggers and miners move in. So agents photograph longhouses and gardens from the air, confirm the tribe exists, and never land.
The word "uncontacted" hides the real history. Most of these groups descend from people who met the outside world during the rubber boom a century ago, when enslavement and disease killed roughly 90% of western Amazonia's Indigenous population. Their ancestors ran deeper into the forest and never came back out.
The ones who did come out show why.
The Nahua in Peru were contacted in 1984 after oil exploration opened their land. Half of them were dead within a few years, mostly from colds and flu. The Matis in Brazil were contacted in 1978. Five years later, 87 of them were left. The Panará lost 80% of their people in the eight years after a highway was bulldozed through their forest.
A respiratory bug that costs you three days on the couch can erase half a village with no immunity to it.
So Brazil settled on the strangest conservation policy on Earth. Prove they exist. Guard the borders. Never say hello.
[1/7] My boarding school was “anti-bullying”. Physical violence could result in expulsion even.
But I remember a boy, (call him CP), aged 15 in JSS2. His parents sold tiles in a popular market & barely got by. CP wasn't bright, but he was extremely neat, kind & unassuming—
Whenever I buy fruits from aboki and transfer, they don’t even confirm the alert. They just say thank you.
I hope their customers never betray their trust.
When you make blanket statements about gender,unbeknownst to you,you’re shielding the perpetrator .
Call people out individually and let’s the accountability for their wrongdoings fall on them,because for every individual that would do this,there are 10 others who would not.
'I Helped the CIA Create ISIS'
US Army Special Forces veteran Matt Murphy (@Matt_Murphy_23) spills about how he worked with the CIA to create ISIS out of the oppressed masses in West Asia. For several years, those forces have been t*rrorising Africans, too.
We aren’t surprised by Murphy’s admission, but are you? Drop us a comment.
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Video credit: Fight Back Podcast (@shieldsclips)
South Africa and the Weaponisation of the “Foreign Criminals” Narrative
How many foreign nationals do you think are incarcerated in South Africa's prison system? Of this number, how many do you think are Nigerians? If you have been following popular public conversations in South Africa, you would think the numbers should be in the tens or hundreds of thousands - and you would be hilariously wrong.
Using the actual data to make the point, @Big_Mck explores the anatomy of how psy-ops work in Africa by constructing what sound like believable narratives out of complete fabrication and fiction. At a time when the US Africa Command has openly announced the launch of its "Operation Drongo" psy-op targeting Africa with a sophisticated Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) attack, it is more important than ever before for Africans to learn to scrutinise whatever information they allow to get into their ears and eyeballs.
US Think Tank Names Nigeria As Top Location For Conflict With China, Russia
Is the United States planning to wage war with China and Russia in Africa’s most populous country?
A 2023 report by US Department of War-funded think tank the RAND Corporation says yes.
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart sheds light on this obscure document, the true, predatory motives behind it, and what this means for Africa.
This song in 1980 caused ripples in the Catholic Church to the extent that the Vatican asked the Bishops in DRC to intervene. Mobutu also stepped in to curb the spread of the song. Most of us black Africans who don’t speak Lingala did not know what the song was about until now that it is subtitled in English. This is a rendition of the original song, but the lyrics and music are unchanged. Happy Sunday Bazalwane
Content Monetization and The Hijack of Africa's Digital Space
The digital gold rush in Africa is a deliberate structural trap. By incentivizing sensationalism over substance, global platforms have effectively co-opted the creative energy of a generation, steering millions away from the urgent work of reclaiming sovereign narrative and towards a cycle of 'engagement' that hollows out our intellectual discourse.
The Spearhead’s @Big_Mck reports that real digital independence starts with the courage to choose quality over clicks; a challenge that demands a deliberate commitment from every viewer to amplify rather than just consume.
Driving home, 2011. Checkpoint. Drunk policeman.
3 gun shots, one bullet punched through my car boot into my right hand.
That hand once edit, animated, paid bills and fed my family. Overnight it became dead weight.
Career gone. Marriage cracked. Mind still bleeding daily.I sued the Nigeria Police.
2015: Federal High Court ordered them to fund reconstructive surgery to restore my life.
Eleven years later: zero naira, zero apology, zero accountability.
I still can’t fully use the hand they destroyed. Still begging strangers so I don’t lose it forever.
The Nigeria Police that shot me ignores the court. Who protects the rest of us?
@MobilePunch@TunjiDisu1@UNDP@NhrcNigeria
#NigeriaPoliceNotYourFriend #JusticeForTomori