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Why Are So Many Europeans Suddenly Leaving Their Countries? Since 2022, Europeans have been leaving their countries in record numbers, citing everything from rising living costs, to overtaxation, to the antics of their politicians. The West, which has and continues to sell itself to the rest of the world as the pinnacle of human civilization, seems to be currently experiencing a serious civilizational crisis. This crisis is not an accident, but the logical demise of the parasitic and inherently unsustainable system that the West imposed on the whole word at the barrel of a g*n over 200 years ago. And its repercussions should concern every African. Barra Hart reports for The Spearhead.
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Albania’s Lesson On Resisting Settler Colonialism There is something very powerful about what Albanians are doing right now. They saw a foreign-backed “luxury development” coming for their protected land, and they understood immediately what was really at stake. Their land and their sovereignty. Africans should be watching very closely because we know this story too well. We have seen outsiders arrive, “discover” places that already have people, history, culture, and meaning, then package everything as investment and development. Before long, the people who own the land are the same people being locked out of it. That is why Albania’s resistance matters. They are not waiting until it is too late. Africa needs that same clarity. Every foreign-backed enclave, private settlement, charter city, or “special development zone” should be resisted because once land is gone, it is gone. Albanians seem to understand this. Do we?
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Africa Is One Market, But Not for Africans Africa has been treated as one big market for foreign goods, but Africans have been discouraged from treating Africa as one market for ourselves. The same people who tell us continental trade is too complicated have no problem moving their own products across our borders. They want access to Africa’s market, but they do not want Africa to trade freely with itself. Because an Africa that trades with itself is an Africa that becomes stronger, more independent, and less dependent on foreign imports. So when you see foreign products everywhere across the continent, while African products remain trapped inside their own countries, understand what you are looking at. Dependency by design.
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Mahdi Shehu on Alleged 1995 U.S.-Backed Plot Against Abacha Mahdi Shehu’s account of the 1995 Durbar Hotel bombing speaks to foreign interference, regime change politics, and the hidden hands that have shaped Nigeria’s political history. According to Shehu, a U.S. Embassy political officer approached him in Kaduna, offered him money, and asked him to drop a parcel at the Durbar Hotel as part of what he described as a campaign against the Abacha government. Shehu says he refused, only for the hotel to be bombed shortly after, with journalist Bagauda Kaltho later linked to the incident. This story forces a larger question: how many times has Nigeria’s instability been engineered, sponsored, or encouraged by foreign powers, only to be later presented to us as our own failure? This is why Africans must pay closer attention to the history we are told, the history that is hidden, and the people who benefit from our chaos.
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Why Did The West Destroy Libya’s Water Supply In 2011? Did you know that the West destroyed one of the largest water infrastructure projects ever attempted in human history, just to punish the sovereign African country that created this project? In this report for the Spearhead, U.O sheds light on Libya’s fabled and tragically ill-fated Great Man-made River Project (GMRP), a project that could have sustained Libya’s water supply into the distant future, and transformed the wider Saharan and Sahelian regions of Africa, geologically and economically, for the better, had NATO not carried out its illegal invasion of Libya in 2011 and murdered its popular, revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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Nigeria's Cooking Gas Crisis & Why Sovereignty Matters Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, which also happens to sit atop the largest natural gas reserves on the continent, is, for some reason, currently going through a serious gas price crisis. In this report for the Spearhead, Biggest Mack explores that reason, what it means for the future of Nigeria, and what the country’s over 242 million citizens must do about it.
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Arsenal's Title Victory And The Emotional Colonization Of Africans Why are so many Africans so passionate about non-African football teams winning a game thousands of miles away from the continent? Why is so much money, time and energy channeled towards the professional and personal lives of wealthy foreign athletes in a continent where anywhere between 40 and 50% of the entire population lives in multi-dimensional poverty? What does this fact say about the priorities of the average African? And who ultimately benefits from this mass distraction? Biggest Mack reports for The Spearhead.
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How Trump Manufactures Consent For His Military Ambition In Nigeria Donald Trump is using Nigeria’s insecurity to sell the idea of deeper U.S. military involvement in the country. His sudden concern for Nigeria is not really about protecting Nigerians but manufacturing consent for another American intervention. By amplifying selected voices, especially religious figures like Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, calling for U.S. action, he is using real fear, real grief, and real insecurity to push foreign military ambition.
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TikTok Flags Spearhead Videos... For Racism Sometime this April 2026, The Spearhead was forced to take down a report it had posted on TikTok, a report which, according to TikTok, contained hate speech, specifically a racial slur. The racial slur in question was “Niger”. As in the independent, internationally-recognized West African country, Niger. How did TikTok’s proprietary, multibillion-dollar, AI-powered content moderating system manage to somehow forget that Niger is a country? And could this “bug” have something to do with the platform's recent acquisition by the United States government? Barra Hart reports for The Spearhead.
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IMF Subtly Threatens Botswana Over Country's Own Diamond Mines Dear IMF, We are looking. And we are judging. We have seen you impoverish our continent for decades. We have seen you steal the futures of entire generations of Africans through your “Structural Adjustment Programs”, signed off on by local puppets controlled by the same forces that control you. And now, in your latest stunt, you have subtly threatened to cut Botswana off from your funding if it dares to acquire a majority stake in its own diamond mines, even as Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso continue to show the world what a truly sovereign African nation with control of its resources is capable of. So our question is… Do you promise? And how soon can you leave the rest of Africa alone? Sincerely, The Spearhead.
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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.
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Africa Is Not More Corrupt Than The West Donald Trump’s presidency is a gift to Africa because, through him, Africans are learning in real time that corruption is not our inheritance. Trump sued his own tax authority and awarded himself a $1.8 billion settlement simply because his business and personal tax returns leaked. This is the "leader" trusted with managing American taxpayers’ money. This incident and more like this show that corruption is not an African problem. It is a global problem. The difference is that in the West, corruption is often better packaged, and hidden behind institutions, legal language, and respectable titles. The scale of it is so massive that Africa could spend a hundred years trying and still not come close.
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Africa's "Modern" Constructions Are Climate Disasters Africa needs buildings that make sense for Africa. Too many of our cities are filled with glass, concrete, and steel structures that trap heat, block airflow, and force people to depend on expensive air conditioning just to survive indoors. That is the opposite of "development." It is actually spectacularly poor planning. Our ancestors understood climate before it became a conference topic. They built with the land, used local materials, created shade, allowed air to move, and designed homes that worked with the environment. Unfortunately, we keep copying people who never designed for our climate in the first place. Construction in Africa needs to be decolonized, and that must start with a mindset change and re-education.
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"Foreign Embassies Will Fund "Cultural Events" - But Never Science And Research" - Ibrahim Traoré On October 22, 2025, Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré chaired the opening ceremony of the 15th edition of the National Forum for Scientific Research and Technological Innovations (FRSIT) in Ouagadougou. While delivering the opening address, Traoré took a moment to address young people in Burkina Faso, urging them to use social media and internet access to gain knowledge and skills to better their situation, rather than waste the opportunity by fixating solely on entertainment, which he termed a "distraction." Traoré stated that there are foreign interests who would prefer that young people in Burkina Faso remain permanently distracted and over-entertained. He further pointed out that this can even be proven by examining the disparity between foreign funding that is available for "Culture and Entertainment" activities in Burkina Faso, versus that which is available to fund local research and development. Do you have a similar situation in your African country?
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Jos Massacre: Unmasking Foreign Influence in Nigeria On Palm Sunday, 29 March 2026, terrorists attacked the Gari Ya Waye community of Angwan Rukuba in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria, killing at least 30 civilians that the Tinubu-led regime failed to protect. Following the attack, many Nigerians, who have long been victims of US-backed terrorism, have, out of frustration and neglect by Abuja, begun cosying up to foreign actors like “Alex Barbir”, who poses as a US missionary alongside his compliant local partner Ezekiel Dachomo. For the Spearhead, Mayowa Durosinmi (Mayowa Durosinmi) explained the lost context of how foreign agents like Alex Barbir are embedded deep within networks like Equipping The Persecuted, and are all working, in the name of protecting “persecuted Christians”, to achieve the ultimate goal of furthering US imperialism in Nigeria.
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Why Is the U.S. Allowed to Host the 2026 World Cup? Rather than helping the world come together, the United States has proven yet again to be a bad-faith actor. During the run-up to the 2026 World Cup, other countries’ football players and officials, mainly those from the Global South, accused border officials of mistreating them. The allegations come amidst the United States' military aggression against Iran, and silence from the usual Western loudmouths who had much to say when Qatar, Russia, and South Africa had hosted the tournament in years past. The double standard has become impossible to ignore, as Biggest Mack reports.
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The 1994 Rwandan Genocide remains a dark chapter in Africa’s modern history. More than 800,000 men, women and children perished in less than 4 months, their fates sealed by decades of carefully-nurtured colonial divisions. The United Nations (UN) had sent a peacekeeping mission to the country the previous year, but pulled out as soon as the killings began, having reportedly ignored all the early warning signs. It had also reportedly ordered troops to prioritize non-Africans in their evacuation efforts. In this excerpt from a 2025 interview with journalist Kafui Dey, retired Ghanaian Major-General Henry Kwami Anyidoho recounts his defiant decision, as commanding officer of the Ghanaian contingent of the peacekeeping mission, to stay behind and protect lives during the genocide, even as the non-African contingents on the same mission - which included Belgium and Bangladesh - pulled out almost immediately. Major-General Anyidoho and his platoon are credited with saving the lives of over 30,000 Rwandans at the country's darkest hour. This was by some distance the single most powerful external intervention in the course of this dark chapter of Rwandan history. This story, which has been systematically ignored and suppressed in most global media coverage of the Rwandan genocide, is a powerful reminder that the most potent and powerful positive interventions in Africa come from Africans themselves - not from foreign saviors
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‘Tanzania is a Geopolitical Battleground in Africa’: David Hundeyin On June 3, 2026, The Spearhead premiered its debut documentary, ‘What Happened On October 29?’, at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, a documentary which challenges the Western narrative about the violent, anti-government protests that rocked Tanzania in October 2025, offering an African-centered perspective on these “protests”, and exposing the nefarious, external forces behind them. This East African premiere came 8 days after the documentary’s West African premiere, which was held in Accra, Ghana. In this excerpt from a panel discussion held immediately after the Dar es Salaam screening, Nigerian investigative journalist and founder of The Spearhead, David Hundeyin, sheds light on the true geopolitical role that the so-called "objective" and "unbiased" media outlets of the West play in Africa's information space, and what Africa's indigenous media must do about it, if the continent is ever to truly prosper.
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The United States Officially Activates AI Warfare Why was a US-based AI company paying Nigerians for personal data and information from their surroundings? That is the bigger question behind Kled’s decision to ban Nigeria from its platform over alleged fraud-related activities. It is not a question about whether or not some users broke the rules. Why was a foreign AI company operating a business model that offered financial incentives in exchange for the personal data and environmental information of Nigerians in the first place? At a time when U.S. tech companies are becoming increasingly tied to the country’s military and intelligence outfits – if there ever even was a time when they weren’t – Africans must treat data extraction as a serious sovereignty issue. AI platforms cannot be considered neutral tools when they are built inside systems that serve foreign political, economic, and military interests. Data is power. In the wrong hands, it becomes weaponizable intelligence. Biggest Mack reports for the Spearhead.
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US President Donald Trump's threat to deploy the US military into Nigeria "guns-a-blazing" has received unlikely support from within Nigeria itself. Many in Nigeria hold an erroneous belief that a US military invasion of Nigeria would result in enhanced protection of local lives and stabilisation of currently insecure areas. These ideas, which are the results of decades of unrelenting Western neo-colonial influence over Nigeria’s porous educational, religious, and media spaces, are naïve and dangerous. More importantly, they are completely wrong and ahistorical. The historical record of what US military invasion actually mean on the ground where it happens, tells a devastating story of indiscriminate brutality, widespread sexual violence, gratuitous destruction, and an aftermath of physical and cultural ruin, alongside scars that never heal. In this video, you can listen to a so-called war veteran of the US-led invasion of Iraq bragging about making “hajis” (ethnic slur used by US soldiers to refer to Iraqis and Afghans) bark and walk around like dogs. “The CIA showed us a lot of sh*t,” he says. He proudly recounts witnessing a US soldier r*ping an “untouched 15 year-old haji” and pimping her out to other US soldiers for $50 a turn, which earned him $500 before she hung herself - an outcome that he seemed very cheerful about, judging by his mirth. These events took place in the wider context of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, following the so-called 9/11 terror attacks. After less than a month of the so-called ‘Shock and Awe’ invasion strategy, the country lay in ruins. US President George Bush promised a swift exit, but Iraq remained under official occupation until 2011, and even now still hosts 9 permanent US military bases and at least 2,500 US soldiers permanently stationed on its soil. It wasn’t just Iraq. This has happened everywhere US jackboots have been. In September 2025, 117 South Korean women filed a human rights lawsuit against the US military, having been lured to US military bases with promises of jobs as bartenders, and then imprisoned in state-sanctioned brothels that serviced US troops in the 1960s and 1970s. Your country could be next.
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