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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.
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Retired Nigerian Navy Commander: Nigerians Don't Run Their Country Retired Nigerian Navy Commander Kunle Olawunmi says a deep state runs Nigeria’s affairs. These people aren’t elected and their identities are not public. What can Nigerians do to take back power? Video credit: edmund obilo
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The Pentagon Set Up Facebook! Comedian and author Sam Tripoli (Sam Tripoli) blows the mind of podcaster Danny Jones when he explains that Facebook is a Pentagon project. We're not surprised given that the social media accounts of anti-imperialists and Pan-Africanists like African Stream have been "Zucked" or deleted, while imperialists get to keep spewing lies. Follow us on Substack to keep in touch if we get Zucked, too: Video credit: @/dannyjones
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Apartheid Exposed: We Created Black-on-Black Violence to Prevent an Uprising A former conscript in the South African apartheid regime’s army says the government fomented tension between African tribes to avoid the possibility of intra-tribal unification to defeat European domination of their lands. Have you heard this story before? Follow us on Substack: Video credit: honestappraisal1 (TikTok)
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David Hundeyin: African Schools Impart Colonial Literacy, Not Knowledge In this clip taken from episode 8 of The Spearhead Roundtable, David Hundeyin explains what he sees as a fundamental problem that afflicts Africa's formal education systems which still remain very much under colonial influence across the continent - the absence of an ideological purpose which is painted over using an inordinate focus on the meaningless rote learning of words and ideas that we do not even understand for the most part. Do you agree with his assessment? Let us know in the comments. You can watch The Spearhead Roundtable Episode 8 on our YouTube channel or on our Facebook page. Don't forget to follow @/Spearhead_Af and subscribe to our Substack:
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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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The Spearhead Reacts To Kemi Badenoch’s Comments On The Role of Britain in The Transatlantic Slave Trade British Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch (born Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke) has built a political career out of lending herself to be the convenient black face of right wing British r*cism, who regularly trots out the most r*cially coded and offensive messages on behalf of her patrons, knowing that as someone of recent African heritage, she cannot be punished for doing so. The most recent installment in her one-woman political ministrel show involved offering a typically shameless and completely unsolicited opinion praising Britain for allegedly stopping the European sl*ve trade, while asserting that Britain has no need to apologise for its role or offer restitution. Senior reporter Biggest Mack responds:
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Why Pan-Africanists Are More Influential Than Black Billionaires Organiser and podcaster Diallo "Brother Diallo" Kenyatta argues that Pan-Africanists are the real “Black elites.” Does a person’s “net worth” make a difference for African liberation? Follow us on Substack: Video credit: @africanworldorder
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Mormons: One Of Christianity’s Most R*cist Groups What do you really know about the Mormon Church? What did the founders of this church really believe about the world? And do the friendly smiles and demeanors of its missionaries across the globe today symbolize sincere intentions, or hide a dark truth? In this report for The Spearhead, U.O sheds light on the history of one of Christianity’s most r*cist denominations.
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Why Ghana Refused to Sign US Health Deal In a September 2026 discussion at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama said his cabinet refused to sign onto the US health deal that two dozen African countries have penned. Mahama called the data-sharing agreement “humiliating.” Why do you think some African states have gone along? Drop us a comment. Follow us: The Spearhead Video credit: Council on Foreign Relations (YouTube)
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Apostle Arome Osayi: Nigerians Are Meant To Spread The Gospel, Not Develop Like China On September 22, 2026, a Nigerian Christian preacher stood before a congregation and told them that their populous, resource and human-capital rich African nation existed for one purpose and one purpose alone: To “spread the gospel” throughout the world. Not to develop or industrialise. Not to celebrate a leadership that actually answers to its people, as the nations of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) now do, but to remain prayerful, in its poor, underdeveloped state, until the literal end of time. It will come as no surprise that this Nigerian preacher has a lot of good friends in the US.
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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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Sovereignty On Mortgage: Nigerian Expert Raises Alarm Over Bill Gates Funding Of Nutrition Bill Nigeria's nutrition space is currently the subject of an attempted hostile takeover sponsored by US billionaire Bill Gates. Speaking on News Central TV on Friday 23 October, 2026, Dr Segun Adebayo, Executive Director, Centre for African Policy Research and Advisory (CAfPRA) raised the alarm surrounding a contentious new bill backed by Gates, which has been smuggled through 2 readings at Nigeria's House of Representatives, with the final reading planned for Monday 26 October. Whereas legislative bills in Nigeria typically spend weeks or months going through their first, second and third readings before being submitted for presidential assent, this bill, which has the full backing of Gates' extensive institutional influence in Nigeria, was reportedly rushed through its first and second within a few hours of each other, with a planned timeline for passage before the end of October 2026. Video credit: News Central TV
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African Media's Great Betrayal Of Africa Do you know that there is a difference between 'African media' and 'African-based media'? In this report, senior reporter Biggest Mack explores how the vast majority of reporters, journalists, and media platforms on the continent are trained, funded and conditioned to deliver output that does not serve the interests of their African audiences. Mckay analyses how this came to be, what subversive entities are behind the large scale foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) effort against Africa, and what you as an ordinary everyday African news consumer can do about it.
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Ghanaian Reporter Parrots Western Propaganda About His Own Country, The Spearhead Reacts This April, Ghana rejected a ridiculous “health deal” offered to it by the US under the so-called “America First Global Health Strategy”. This deal would have seen Ghana hand its sensitive health data, medical records, and national pathogen profiles on a plate to Africa’s single greatest geopolitical enemy. So the Ghanaian government did what any sensible African government would have done. In this report for The Spearhead, Barra Hart reacts to a DW News report on Ghana’s decision, hosted by a Ghanaian “journalist” who clearly doesn’t know where his African interests lie.
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A Decade of "Change", a Nation Growing Poorer Eleven years after millions voted for a supposed political transition, Nigeria’s economic reality tells a grim story. With over 90 million citizens now living in multidimensional poverty and living standards sharply declined, Kangmwa Gofen investigates how foreign-backed economic policies and geopolitical interests continue to shape the nation's trajectory.
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Russia-Africa Summit Vs France-Africa Summit: Compare And Contrast Delegations from 48 of Africa's 55 countries were present in Moscow at the recent Russia-Africa Summit where multiple infrastructure, energy, defence and economic cooperation deals were signed to further dependent Africa's relationship with the world's foremost nuclear power and 8th largest economy. In this analysis, senior reporter Mckay Chukwu highlights and compares the stark difference in purpose, engagement, and meaningful results recorded at this summit in contrast with those recorded at France's so-called "Africa Forward" summit in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2026.
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'I Recruited an African Diplomat to Sabotage His Country' Former CIA officer James Lawler says he developed a relationship with an African diplomat that paid off 15 years later. The diplomat had been incensed by his ambassador’s behaviour and decided to get revenge by revealing classified documents. Would you be angry at the CIA, the diplomat, the ambassador or all of them? Let us know in the comments. Follow us: The Spearhead Video credit: Be Yourself Podcast
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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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French Embassy To Train Young Influencers in Ghana: The Spearhead Reacts France's ambassador to Ghana has put out an open invitation to Ghanaian bloggers, social media influencers, content creators and journalists to take part in what amounts to the most brazen attempt yet to directly interfere with an African country's information space. Unsurprisingly, not many Ghanaians seem to grasp the full ugliness of what is unfolding. Senior Reporter Biggest Mack reacts to the latest open violation of Ghana's sovereignty.
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