Music shapes entire generations, and they don't even have to be aware while it's happening.
It's like Mohbad (Imole) said: "Music no need permission to enter your spirit. Anyhow anywhere you must to feel it."
Look at the impact of Olu Maintain’s "Yahooze" in 2007. It served as a massive cultural catalyst for the "Yahoo-Yahoo" epidemic we see today.
If a single song can shift the youth's moral ideology so drastically, imagine the geopolitical threat of a global icon doing the exact opposite.
That was Bob Marley. His reggae was the psychological spine of anti-colonial revolutions worldwide.
He sang "Rasta don't work for no CIA" because he knew his art directly threatened Western hegemony (aka Babylon 🤣🤣)— which is precisely why knowledgeable insiders link the CIA to his 1976 assassination attempt.
Look at Fela Kuti. His Afrobeat was an outright declaration of war against neo-colonial puppets. To silence him, the local military government subjected him to over 200 arrests, burned his Kalakuta Republic to the ground, and murdered his mother. If a Nigerian regime used that level of raw military terrorism just to contain one man in Lagos, how hard do you think the global imperial apparatus will clamp down when an artist stands in the way of their entire global agenda?
This brings us to the ultimate end game: Geopolitics and demographic management.
By 2050, Africa will hold the fastest-growing youth population on earth. Nearly 1 out of every 4 people in the world will be African, and 1 out of 6 African will be Nigerian, with 1 out of every 25 random human on earth being Nigerian.
In the cold calculus of Western intelligence, a hyper-conscious, politically literate African youth population is an existential risk to Western hegemony and resource control.
More importantly, you must know that the mortal fear of the West is that if they fell out of power, others would do to them what they've done around the world for centuries.
So they figure that if a demographic giant wakes up to the frequency of Felas and Marleys, they will become completely ungovernable.
So how do you control a population that massive without deploying armies? You do it through the algorithm. You fund and amplify a modern, sanitized music industry that rewards escapism, hyper-individualism, and material wealth over consciousness.
By filtering out the revolutionary spark, the global imperial apparatus achieves ultimate containment and neutralization. They don't need to assassinate the prophets anymore ("how long shall they kill our prophets...?"); they just use music and entertainment to turn a potential revolutionary generation into completely redolent, bio-pliable 'fauna'.
Once again, the 2027 Nigerian elections will play out exactly like 2023, and there is nothing you can do to prevent it, because nothing can be done to prevent it.
That is how Democray is designed to function.
Instead of complaining about INEC or a political jobber like Theo, who is handling your party’s comms, start having the conversation about abandoning democracy. That is your only hope.
You cannot win Tinubu or the APC with democracy. It is not possible, but you will not hear. By the time the new set of jobbers finish using your head to cash out in 2027, with any luck, you will receive sense.
'Expats' And The New Scramble for African Cities
A new scramble for African cities is happening. Driven by foreign salaries, strong currencies, and short-term rentals, desirable neighborhoods across the continent are pricing out the locals who live and work there.
Drawing parallels between historical colonial spatial segregation and present-day economic dynamics, we examine how parallel expat economies operate and highlight the need for housing policies that protect local communities.
1) For me, my geopolitical world view is simple, especially when it comes to Africa.
There is a 100 year history and documented evidence of each power blocs engagement with the continent, of which the benefits and losses of said engagement can be numerically quantified per bloc.
If the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends representatives to go to the US and sign partnership and sponsorship agreements with American musicians, publicists, entertainment lawyers and journalists, whoever signs such a deal will spend 5 years in federal prison for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
In Nigeria, the US equivalent of the MFA (US State Department) has been doing exactly the same thing for the past 2 decades, embedding itself all over Nigeria's cultural and media spaces, and the natives involved are rather basking in the glow of being the "special selected few" chosen by Father Christmas Hamirikkka.
Nigeria has no FARA, so it is an open highway for anyone to come in and do as they please. The energetic, actively-consenting, long-suffering ashawo who always gets robbed by her clients and never gets paid, but who thinks enduring abuse from white men is a badge of honour, so her legs never close.
When that revolution comes and you see people like Osi Suave facing summary execution alongside your Aisha Yesufus and Yemi Adamolekuns, and all your celebrity artists immediately disappear into exile, don't even waste your breath shouting about "dictatorship" and "human rights" because you sef go collect.
This ashawo industry will end one day.
@Big_Mck the tears regarding your report is turning into a river. You guys should please consider doing the religious version that covers pastors, Rev. Frs., gospel musicians etc. So you expand the tears into a hydro dam.
What an Expose! Thank you, Nna.
Afrobeats And Its Links To US Secret Intelligence
Have you ever found yourself wondering why Afrobeats - the joyful soundtrack to the "Africa Rising" era from the late 2000s through the early 2010s - seems to have lost much of its energy and lustre of recent? Does it seem to you like the music no longer belongs to the fans and has become a distant, expensive product that nobody can relate with anymore?
You are not imagining it - in fact the reality of what has happened to Afrobeats is a lot darker than you would possibly imagine. Far from just a fresh music genre that embodied the sounds and aspirations of a new generation across the continent, it has been coopted into the arsenal of the US government's extensive foreign influence and interference tools. In fact, your favourite Afrobeats artist, as incredible as it sounds, most likely now has a handler permanently assigned to them by the US State Department.
In this special report, The Spearhead Senior Reporter Mckay Chukwu examines a story that has been hiding in plain sight for years, detailing the State Department's well-funded cultural interference infrastructure which has been deployed all over the Global South to bend entire populations and their governments toward the foreign policy goals of the US government.
Is The US Planning To Invade The AES?
Is the United States planning to invade the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)? Is a recent letter by a certain US Congressman to the US Secretary of State a precursor to this invasion? Do recent developments in Washington and the relentless slandering of the AES by Western media also point to this possibility? What does history have to say? And what must Africans do to protect their Motherland?
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart, @sannario_, @okorieuche_, @gofwenjoy, @big_mck and @davidhundeyin, explore these questions.
Is The US Planning To Invade The AES?
Is the United States planning to invade the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)? Is a recent letter by a certain US Congressman to the US Secretary of State a precursor to this invasion? Do recent developments in Washington and the relentless slandering of the AES by Western media also point to this possibility? What does history have to say? And what must Africans do to protect their Motherland?
In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart, @sannario_, @okorieuche_, @gofwenjoy, @big_mck and @davidhundeyin, explore these questions.
@Libra18SZN Literally the guy who owned both buildings (Larry Silverstein) took out a terrorism insurance policy on them a few weeks before it happened, and he subsequently earned a world record insurance payout.
Incredible timing!
Of course it's possible.
We're talking about the country whose people believe that Muslims did 9/11 because 2 Boeing 757s crashed into twin skyscrapers specifically designed to withstand impact from airliners, and against all laws of physics, the jet fuel fire somehow melted and pulverised 110 floors worth of construction grade steel beams, collapsing the structures into their own footprint - but paper passports belonging to Saudi and Sudanese men who had just finished flight school a few weeks prior somehow survived the inferno.
Because as we all know, it is famously possible to learn basic flying with Piper and Cessna light aircraft, then 5 weeks later you can hijack a 100-seater civil airliner and carry out a complicated flight maneuver with needle-like accuracy through some of the world's most heavily restricted and policed airspace above New York, and NORAD won't scramble fighter jets to shoot you out of the sky because - wait for it - NORAD was carrying out a training simulation at the exact same time for the exact same scenario, and they "didn't realise it was happening for real". (Yes that's the official story!)
Oh, and a 3rd building nearby also spontaneously collapsed into its own footprint afterward for absolutely no reason at all. Maybe the Magic Muslim Pilots gave it emotional distress.
Americans who believed that shit and subsequently queued up to join their military to go murder innocent black and brown poor people on the other side of the world for the next 20 years, will believe absolutely anything.
The idiot savants of the planet.
He's from a family of feudal aristocrats-- dating back to, at least, 200-300yrs-- that accumulated capital via slave labor in the groundnut pyramid. There's nothing exceptional, special, or unique about him.
Their wealth is rooted in the mass poverty of the people.
For people wondering where this is coming from, this is because Abdul Hadi Awang - president of PAS (largest political party in Malaysia by federal seats) - threw a bombshell during a speech at his annual party congress.
He revealed that - back in 2014, around the time of Obama's visit to Malaysia - PAS party leaders were invited at the US embassy and "were informed about the possibility of toppling the government and taking over the administration" and that "the US was prepared to assist the effort"(https://t.co/94bstyTsjZ)
The US is officially denying it 👇
As Otto von Bismarck famously said: "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied" 😉
North America and Europe are largely responsible for this.
The world should be thanking Africa for keeping the young population alive.
The United States and Europe are determined to preside over the extinction of humanity on earth.
A True leader mustn’t seek to be liked or loved! Speak the truth irregardless of how the audience will take it! Many have become LIARS in pursuit of validation