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In this report, The Spearhead’s McKay Chukwu examines how public anger in South Africa is often directed at African migrants instead of the deeper economic structures driving inequality in the country.

Using recent controversies involving Nigerians in South Africa, the piece shows how frustration is quickly turned toward foreigners while the legacy of apartheid, land dispossession, and the concentration of wealth remain largely untouched.

Xenophobia is a distraction from the real sources of hardship for many Black South Africans, leaving Africans divided against one another while the systems that benefit from that division stay firmly in place.

In his April 2026 interview with Sky News Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir, Burkina Faso's President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, described his leadership as being rooted in an ideology centered on dignity, self-reliance, and practical development.He pointed to the visible progress across healthcare, agriculture, infrastructure, transportation, education, and industry, saying these are the reasons many young people identify with his government. From lower medication costs and better-equipped hospitals to free or subsidised agricultural support, road construction, factory jobs, buses for urban transport, and improved university and school facilities, Traoré’s administration is one focused on restoring basic dignity and expanding opportunity for ordinary Burkinabè. His comments showed a vision of national renewal built on state-led development, and the knowledge that African countries can use their own resources and labour to transform living conditions for their people.