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Mike Benz Links CIA, U.S. State Department, UK Soft Power Funding To African Musicians And Record Labels In this video, taken from a March 22, 2026 livestream, former US State Department official Mike Benz spotlights Nigeria's Chocolate City Music Group as one of the beneficiaries under the US State Department's little-known 'American Music Mentorship Programme' - a semi-clandestine US soft power/influence operation that co-opts music artists and record labels around the world into service to American political objectives. Later this week, The Spearhead's Biggest Mack will be releasing a long-form piece addressing the revelations from the livestream and the wider implications of American foreign influence operations embedding themselves into cultural spaces across Africa and its diaspora. Don't forget to follow The Spearhead
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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, Barra Hart, Sannario ✨, U.O, @gofwenjoy, Biggest Mack and David Hundeyin, explore these questions.
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Afua Hirsch: "BBC Wanted Me to Include 'Corruption' in African Art Documentary" At the World Decolonization Forum in May 2026, journalist Afua Hirsch (Afua Hirsch) ripped on the BBC for asking her to include images of poverty and corruption in a documentary series about art in Africa. When will Africans ever be able to talk about our accomplishments without mentioning ridiculous Western-generated tropes? Drop us a comment. Follow us: The Spearhead Video credit: worlddecolonizationforum (YouTube)
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Former Refugee: "I Witnessed Foreign Aid Workers Drop Off G*ns, Alcohol & Dr*gs to Refugees" Congolese refugee in Botswana Tina Nyambwe says she can’t trust the United Nations after all of the human rights violations she witnessed as a child. Can you blame her? Drop us a comment. Follow us: The Spearhead Video credit: tina.sambo.96 (Facebook)
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Kwesi Pratt, Jr.: M*ssad Abducted a P*lestinian Under Ghana's Nose Kwesi Pratt, Jr. (Kwesi Pratt Jnr.), general secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana (Socialist Movement of Ghana - (SMG)), told Pan African TV about Isr*el’s audacity to undermine Ghana’s sovereignty by kidnapping Palestinian businessman Mahran Baajour in 2018 on Ghanaian soil, t*rturing him for 35 days in Accra's Roman Ridge neighbourhood. Why do you think Isr*el is allowed to get away with human rights violations in Africa? Drop us a comment. Follow us: The Spearhead Video credit: panafricantv (YouTube)
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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.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Unity Is Key To Defeating U.S. Divide-and-Conquer Strategy In Africa Economist and Author Jeffrey Sachs believes that Africa's only chance of defeating US imperialism and achieving industrialisation lies in collective action by the continent's 55 countries. Speaking in November 2025 at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sachs stated that the US actively impedes the African unification project because a unified Africa would not be a source of cheap industrial inputs anymore. The solution according to him, is for Africa to do away with the idea of carrying out industrial transformation at a national level 55 different times, and embrace unity so that a single continental push can emerge, which will be much harder to stop. Why do you think this assessment appears to fly above the heads of so many Africans today? Let us know in the comments, and don't forget to follow The Spearhead
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'I Helped the CIA Create ISIS' US Army Special Forces veteran Matt Murphy (Matthew Murphy) 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. Follow us: The Spearhead Video credit: Fight Back Podcast (Fight Back Podcast)
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The Somalia Affair: When Canada Proved It Was No Different From France, Belgium Or Britain Canada, a “progressive”, “democratic”, “inclusive” Western nation that would never hurt a fly – or so its government would have you believe. In this report for The Spearhead, U.O sheds light on the infamous “Somalia Affair”, where a group of Canadian soldiers sent by the United Nations in 1992 to “restore order” in a war-torn Somalia, chose instead to turn the city where they made camp into their personal k*lling field.
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As White Supremacists, We Can’t Tolerate Black People’s Joy Content creator @abercadabermcdoo exposes the true nature of white supremacy; and there is nothing "supreme" about it. It's a low self-esteem system that can only thrive by keeping Black people down. It can't stand Black beauty, Black confidence, or Black friendship and unity. The cruelty aimed at Black success is really a desperate reaction. It comes from a system built on control, now watching that control fail, because Black people are succeeding anyway.
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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 Biggest Mack 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.
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The Mercator Projection And the False Narrative of African Overpopulation The idea that Africa is "overpopulated" and that the poverty of its people is a function of geographical poverty is one of the most persistently promoted myths in western-dominated global discourse. In this video, Biggest Mack forensically takes apart this myth, and the adjacent myth of Africa's small geographical size which has been promoted for centuries by the Mercator Projection, revealing them for the pernicious lies they are, and linking these lies totheir ultimate beneficiaries in the capitals of Europe and North America.
The Spearhead144,255 views • 18 days ago
Disturbing Video Of UAE Job Recruiter In Burundi Exposes Abuse Of African Workers In Gulf States In a widely-condemned and now-deleted video posted on September 9, 2026, by the TikTok account of Burundi-based organization, Bonjour Recruitment BDI, a West Asian “job recruiter” was shown “informing” a group of Burundians seeking job opportunities in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Dubai, that their phones would be confiscated by their employers on arrival and given back to them based on their “good” behavior. The Spearhead took the liberty of archiving the original TikTok post. While the current leadership of Burundi continues to cozy up to Western entities like the EU, the people of Burundi, in their desperation, are being fed into West Asia’s notorious “Kafala system” of migrant employment, where r*cism, gender-based viol*nce and s*xual exploitation are the order of the day.
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White People Control Nigeria’s Music Industry Does Afrobeats sound bland lately? The Spearhead founder David Hundeyin says white people have hijacked the industry that sprung up in his native Nigeria. Drop us a comment if you’re tired of the foreign takeover of African cultural products and natural resources. Follow us: The Spearhead Video credit: PerspectiveAfricaPodacst (YouTube)
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"Corrupt African Leaders" And Trump's New Policy Of Encouragement When government corruption and illicit financial flows are discussed in Africa, attention is always disproportionately focused on the well-known local faces and culprits, often with the explicit or implicit inferrence that these are problems originating from Africa, as against the western jurisdictions that often benefit from them. A recent policy decision from the US Treasury Department should dispel this myth once and for all. Biggest Mack outlines what this policy is and what it means.
The Spearhead141,956 views • 21 days ago
Meet A Nigerian School Teaching Children Loyalty To The United States The school you just watched teaching Nigerian children to pledge allegiance to the United States is in Owerri, southeastern Nigeria. Pearlville School claims to promote critical thinking, but this is the exact opposite. Teaching children to recite the US national anthem and pledge loyalty to a foreign country is not education. It is ideological conditioning at the most impressionable stage of their lives. In what world should allegiance to the United States have any place in the curriculum of a school on African soil? What exactly are these children being taught about their own country, history, identity and responsibility as Nigerians? This ridiculousness exposes how deeply African identity has been pushed to the margins of our education systems, while foreign cultures are treated as superior and worthy of loyalty. It also raises serious questions about the government and education authorities that approved, ignored, or failed to stop this. A country that does not take its children's education and identity seriously cannot pretend to be serious about sovereignty.
The Spearhead278,610 views • 1 month ago
Algorithms Are Colonising African Youths Nigerian historian Iyo Obietonbara argues that social media algorithms are a tool of colonialism, influencing what African youths consider valuable. Instead of building organisations to struggle for liberation, many of our young people are making videos about trivial matters. Do you agree? Disagree? Drop us a comment. For more like this, follow The Spearhead.
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U.N. Whistleblower: Abusing Children Is ‘Cost of Doing Business’ UN whistleblower Emma Reilly has exposed how child s*xual abuse within the organization is often treated merely as a "cost of doing business." In an interview with filmmaker Ali Tabrizi, Reilly details a systemic pattern where those involved in abuse or cover-ups are promoted, while those who speak out are retaliated against and silenced. Meanwhile, the UN reportedly spent over $3 million to silence Reilly's efforts to bring these crimes, which include instances of ab*se by peacekeeping forces, to light.
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Burkina Faso Introduces Approval For Foreign Study Burkina Faso has introduced a new policy requiring all students; whether government-sponsored or private, to obtain government approval before studying abroad. Aimed at aligning overseas training with the nation's development priorities and workforce needs, this measure seeks to boost local education quality by encouraging investment in domestic institutions.
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What You Must Know When The U.S Offers Help. U.S. "foreign aid" to Africa is often cited as proof that Americans foreign policy towards the Global South is somehow benevolent. The security partnerships, healthcare funding, and budgetary support regularly extended toward African countries are often successfully marketed to African audiences as charity efforts meant to make the world a better place. In this analysis piece, Biggest Mack forensically deconstructs the myth of U.S. "foreign aid" using 3 recent examples to highlight how these arrangements are not in the slightest bit charitable, and can actually be seen as imperial shakedowns characterised by extremely unequal exchange of value, and enforced by the weight of the global U.S. extortion racket. Don't forget to follow The Spearhead
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