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Scrum Master/ Business Analyst/ Worshipper

[Ik Nnadi 🇳🇬 @NnadiArts1]

And to the 1% who stopped to look:

[IFEANYịCHUKWU!! @OgbajiIfeanyi]

Saw that Okwuluora Kidney failure video in Enugu and I just thought;

1) Beans - Sniper or dangote cement.
2) Palm oil - Red dye + water.
3) Fried Plantain chips - Either transformer oil to save cost or vegetable oil + nylon to make it shiny and hard.
4) Fufu - Klin i.e detergent to ferment cassava in hours instead of days.
5) Kpomo - formalin to preserve it further.
6) Fresh fish - Industrial dye.
7) Unripe pineapple and banana - ripening in hours with chemicals.
8) Mango - ripening overnight by pouring inside smelly gutter waters.

These are but a few, meanwhile, Nigerian yam, beans are banned across parts of Europe for containing excess pesticides used by farmers without proper measurements.

We virtually consume these on daily basis, and result today is unprovoked kidney and liver damage.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

David Miller: Israel Used Honey Traps And Front Companies to Expand Intelligence Operations In Africa

New investigations have exposed the clandestine methods used to expand intelligence operations across Africa and the Global South.

From the strategic use of honey traps impacting leadership in Morocco and Jordan, to the operation of corporate front companies like the Black Star Line in Ghana and Incoda in Ethiopia, these revelations detail how intelligence services have covertly influenced governance and camouflage their activities.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

What Is A Color Revolution?

Most of Africa’s nations gained their independence between the 1950s and 1960s, but the colonial entity that spent over 400 preceding years oppressing these nations had no intention of ever leaving them alone.

Africa has dealt with the consequences of this truth ever since. Across the continent, and the wider Global South, every nation that has dared to chart a truly independent course has seen a curious rise in political and social turmoil, usually followed by the ousting or decapitation of its leadership, and the swift return to a political status quo that always favored the West.

In this report for The Spearhead, @barrahart offers a crash course on the West’s regime change playbook, using Ukraine, Nigeria and Tanzania as case studies.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Peller’s Wedding Guests: Foreign Espionage And African Entertainment

When influencers and "foreign guests" collide, as is the case here, we are not watching a wedding but a social engineering operation

It is very clear here that the rise of our internet sensations is often engineered. When foreign money starts flowing into our digital spaces, it is time to start asking who is really behind the screen and what they’re buying with those "gifts." It’s time for Africans to stop being spectators to our own subversion.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Reminder to go touch grass

A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month

The study is incredibly fascinating:

Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.

Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.

Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.

A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.

Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.

He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.

The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The most useful political statement I have ever read was this simple quote from Chairman Mao: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".

Everything else is just a series of fantasies and illusions that people sell themselves so they can sleep well at night. Whatever style of government you pretend to have, it is always underwritten by men with guns, and its stability always ultimately comes down to what the men with guns choose to do.

Your "democracy" is a children's fairy tale you tell yourself to make the world more palatable - it is men with guns that enforce and implement decisions, and it is men with guns that will escort you into a police car, a courtroom or a prison if you choose not to obey whatever instruction you have received.

Your "theocracy" is a lie because God has no power to make you do anything without the men with guns making you carry out his will. Mecca and Jerusalem are the 2 allegedly holiest in the world, and they're both filled with men with guns, purportedly carrying out the will of God.

Every type of human society is held together by men with guns. A good society is one where the interests of the men with guns align with those of the people without guns, and a bad society is one where the men with guns live parasitically off the people without guns.

ALL societies are dictatorships of men who control the guns. Some just include a whole lot of extra steps to obfuscate that basic fact. I personally prefer the societies where the men with the guns do not hide their control and their interests align with those who do not have guns.

Growing up is realising that "democracy" is like Santa Claus. It's a story told for 5 year-olds to feel involved in the world's decision making. You didn't put Tinubu, Trump or Macron in power with your "vote" you fucking peasant.

[B Flat @did8hurtu]

They change the names, so you can't research what's happened there😒

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

A European Ambassador Has No Right To Lecture Ghana

In a blatant display of diplomatic overreach, outgoing Swiss Ambassador Simone Giger has attempted to lecture Ghana on its own governance. By publicly criticizing the centralization of power within the Ghanaian presidency, Giger has overstepped her role and insulted the nation's sovereignty. It is time to end the cycle of Western diplomats dictating how African countries should be run; Ghana’s constitutional and political matters belong to Ghanaians alone.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Stop whatever you're doing and listen carefully:

AFRICOM has announced the launch of a new psychological operation meant to influence Africans towards US interests by deploying a US army cyber unit to impersonate Africans online.

Its name "Drongo" comes from the African bird that mimics other animals so that it can steal their food.

That account trying to gaslight you on Twitter with "Traoré is a brutal dictator", "The worst democracy is better than the best dictatorship", and "Stop blaming white people and hold your leaders accountable" may just be an American soldier carrying out his mission.

Use your discernment on the internet!

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Election is around the corner, and the German foreign minister is in Nigeria. First think he did was gather the usual suspects under the banner of “vibrant young creatives”, and guess who's proudly leading the lines?? Nas fvcking Boi. The same Nasboi who was vibrating online recently.

Like I always say, the mistake you will make in this life is to include celebrities/influencers in your class struggle. E get why.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Sarkodie - Ibrahim Traore (Song Breakdown)

Mainstream African artistes typically avoid mentioning sensitive political themes or names in their music for fear of rocking the boat in the politically-exposed entertainment industry.

Ghanaian hip-hop superstar Sarkodie is not one of them. His latest single titled 'Ibrahim Traore' directly takes aim at the attempted imperialist targeting of Burkina Faso's revolutionary president, urging Africans to close ranks around Traore and protect the nascent political revolution in the AES.

For The Spearhead, @Big_Mck, who has been active in the entertainment industry reviews the new single and gives his informed verdict.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Everyone else has their struggle and nobody asks them to dilute it so that other people can feel included. There are West Asian struggles, South Asian struggles, Pacific Islander struggles, East Asian struggles, Latin American struggles, Balkan struggles, Australian aboriginal struggles, Native American struggles and Central Asian struggles.

They are all allowed to exist and breathe independently. Nobody ever accused those struggles of taking anything away from a wider socialist struggle.

Only when it comes to the African struggle must we be constantly lectured about why we must accommodate this or that group of virulently anti-black people in our African struggle, or else we will split this or that movement - allowances that literally nobody in the history of the planet has ever made for us.

Look, we know that there is a global anti-imperial struggle that links all our struggles, and we know the shared history we have with the likes of Cuba, Palestine, China, Russia etc. Nobody is going to make us stop collaborating with those whose partnerships have been mutually beneficial.

But nobody is going to convince me that I should not focus on creating the same moat and ringfence that everybody else enjoys. Everyone else on earth has nationalism as an intrinsic feature of their struggle without anyone making faces at them for it - why is it Africa that must dissolve itself into some formless global "working class" kumbaya fantasy that clearly nobody else subscribes to? Why must we be the test subjects for what nobody else is willing to do?

Why are black people always held to ideological standards that nobody else is held to? Why didn't Mao or Lenin organise their revolutions around this amorphous "global proletariat"? Why did they build strong nation states instead? Who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan? Was it the "capitalist ruling class" that developed the bomb and flew the plane to drop it over Hiroshima, or did it use the air force of the United States Military to do that? Why does it need the apparatus of a nation state to impose its will on the world?

Why is this "capitalist ruling class" never able to impose its will anywhere except where it controls the levers of the state? Why have the only successful attempts to oppose this "capitalist ruling class" taken place through a powerful, well organised nation state acting in opposition? Why has all the world's "working class solidarity" not been able to stop innocent Palestinians from being exploded into bits with their families, but it is the IRGC and the well organised, industrial nation-state of Iran that has been able to stop a similar fate from befalling Iranian people?

If nationalism is just a bourgeiosie idea to serve local elites, then why does the "capitalist ruling class" invest billions of dollars every year on secessionist movements and rebel armies aiming to break up nation-states? If African nationalism represents a less important goal than this hypothetical global socialist utopia, then why do the powerful states controlled by the "capitalist ruling class" work so hard to kill or silence every single notable person who pushes African nationalism?

Why did they kill Patrice Lumumba? Why was Kwame Nkrumah overthrown after several failed attempts on his life? Why have there been multiple French-backed attempts on Ibrahim Traore's life? Why did they ignore Gadaffi for decades but the minute he paid for Africa's first communications satellite and put down Libyan state money to fund African replacements for the IMF and World Bank, plus gold reserves to back a continental currency - the things needed to unite Africa into a sovereign, continental nation-state - they immediately rushed every asset they had into Libya and didn't stop until they had him on video being anally raped with a knife on CNN? Why did they take down African Stream?

The STATE is the biggest asset and weapon that can be wielded by any group of people. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can go from a small island in the Atlantic to an empire covering two-thirds of the world. If you have a state that is organised enough, you can resist that empire and its successor, and prevent your people from becoming imperial roadkill. The entire reason why Africa is in its current situation is precisely because it has NO STATE, and its ability to create one is being actively sabotaged on a daily and ongoing basis, including through funding ideological subversion to convince Africans that there is an alternative to developing serious state capacity, either through Frank Zanu/Magatte Wade-style capitalism-raises-the-dead nonsense, or through woolly-headed Supermarxist trash.

Anybody who tells me as an African that I should devote my energy to chasing some formless, utopian "global proletariat revolution" instead of building a pragmatic, Chinese/Russian/Iranian/North Korean-style political revolution that births an industrial African state with the power to feed and defend itself, is just as useless to me as Magatte Wade telling me that the solution to my problems is to sell part of my country to Peter Thiel and gratefully let the new sovereign Epstein Island douse me with its hot, steaming American capitalism.

I will focus on Pan-Africanism and sovereignism. Africa will always come first for me before any of your other -isms. Anyone who doesn't like it, that's too bad. I didn't write the rules and I'm simply doing the same thing everybody else on this planet does - looking out for me and my own first. I'm not interested in being percecived as morally 'better' than anybody. That 'better' shit is what got my ancestors colonised and that's why I'm a black West African who speaks English and answers to "David" today. We don't repeat our ancestors' mistakes here.

In the everlasting words of Fela Kuti, TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE.

[aether @bluewdrift]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist.
If you're an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don't make everything a matter of life and death.

[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.

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

Is this the reason why we have so much insecurity in Nigeria?
Watch.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Meet Dale Partridge: The New Christian Face of U.S. Imperialism Advocating European Recolonisation of Africa

Whenever the clear and indisputable historical nexus connecting r*cism, col*nialism and Christianity is pointed out, two of the most popular retorts trotted out in response are that a) The historical events in question happened too long ago to matter to modern day African people and b) Christianity in Africa predates the European presence in Africa anyway.

These 2 chestnut arguments do not account for the reality that modern theological reality is very much a direct product of its historical influences, and the type of Christian theology present across most of Africa is European col*nial theology, not the Coptic or Orthodox theology that is indigenous to parts of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Egypt. This theology is still heavily influenced by, or even subject to the r*cist, extractive agendas of European theologians today - many of whom retain the violently imperial, parochial ideas of their forebears.

Meet Dale Partridge, lead teaching pastor at King's Way Reformed Church in Prescott, Arizona. A millennial born in 1985, Partridge's message is that Africans - or "Hamites" as he calls us - are subject to a divine curse that makes us unable to maintain our societies without European col*nialism.

Partridge is far from a lone outlier in this Christian theological school of thought. His theological mentor and leader of the so-called 'reformed Christian movement" is none other than Doug Wilson, who happens to be the personal pastor of US Secretary of War and avowed white supremacists Pete Hegseth.

The Spearhead commends Partridge for the unusual and refreshing honesty and lack of doublespeak in openly owning his abominable ideology which animates US Christian nationalism. The onus is on Africans to decide whether to validate the ideologies of violent anti-black r*cists with their religious loyalty or to try something new.

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Dear Nigerians, your country as you knNow it is gone.

An ex-minister from a country I can't name in this caption is boldly on Nigeria’s national TV discussing Nigeria’s national security.

This also proves my point the media is the biggest weapon fashioned against any meaningful movement in Africa.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

That is precisely why a country going through a socioeconomic transition needs stiff, firm, authoritarian, nationalist bastards as its leadership - not "democratically elected" people who are subject to votes from these miserable idiots who go digging for gold on an expressway.

Lee Kuan Yew told us decades ago that when his government built high rise apartments to take poor Singaporeans out of bamboo shacks, they deliberately began peeing in the elevators and taking countermeasures against the government's attempts to stop them from messing up their own infrastructure. They had to humiliate and punish people brutally before they started acting in ways that were beneficial to their own lives.

If you want to uplift poor, colonised people, you will have to do it AGAINST THEIR WILL. Colonised people are not sane and a revolutionary must not pretend that he is up against sane, rational people who want a better life. A colonised man will steal expensive paint and empty it out into a river so that he can sell the plastic buckets and use the peanuts to play BetPesa. He will dig up his country's first high speed motorway that is going to add hundreds of millions of dollars to everyone's collective pocket, so that he can find gold nuggets and sell them for $650. He will vandalise railway lines that are meant to improve his own life so that he can sell the metal to a scrap dealer and use it to buy some pussy that night.

Colonised people are among the biggest dangers to themselves and the countries they inhabit, and any leader wishing to improve his country's material conditions despite the presence of millions of colonised people who are out of their natural minds, must be prepared to go the Stalin, Mao and Lee Kuan Yew way. Re-education camps, public flogging and forced labour so offenders can repay their debt to society.

China was once burdened with millions of useless idiots like this, but deliberate state policy removed them from the census and transformed China into the world's most successful civilisation. Hard decisions must be made in pursuit of development.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

What happens when an internet leftist darling from the Global South does something that western internet leftists do not understand and can't be bothered to research?

Complete meltdown.