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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.

On April 9, 2026, UK-based Western imperialist propaganda outlet Sky News uploaded a 16-minute documentary on YouTube, a documentary hosted by Sky News African correspondent Yousra Elbagir, and aimed at portraying Burkina Faso as a poor, dangerous, unstable African nation ruled by an evil despot.

On April 10, Sky News re-uploaded this documentary with some revisions, amid a wave of backlash from a slowly awakening African audience.

In this report for the Spearhead, Barra Hart examines the motives behind this “documentary”, weighs its claims against reality, and sheds light on an important connection between Sky News and the Western imperialist machine.

As a member of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Burkina Faso 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 Niger, have continued to record economic and political wins.

All 3 AES members have pointed to former colonizer France as a key sponsor of terror in the region – a claim which has been corroborated by their international allies – and France itself 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.

The motive behind Sky News’s latest imperialist propaganda piece is clear: to manufacture consent for regime change in Burkina Faso and the wider AES, so that Africa may be put back in its assigned place in the West’s global order.

It is up to the people of Africa to continue to resist this tired trick.

Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024
Time: 2:00pm EST

Join us for an exciting Zoom event where guest lecturer Aziz Fall of the Mossi Warrior Clan explores the ancient linguistic and cultural connections between KMT (ancient Egypt) and West Africa.

Whether you're fascinated by the history and languages of ancient Kemet and West Africa, curious about the origins of Ma'at, or have an interest in comparative linguistics, Honor & Ma'at: From KMT To West Africa promises to be an engaging and enlightening experience for all.

About Our Guest Lecturer

Aziz Fall is an independent researcher in African studies focusing on pre-colonial West Africa and its wider connections to Classical African Civilizations through language and culture.

Living between Senegal, West Africa, and the U.S., Aziz is particularly interested in N. West Atlantic languages, Coptic, and the Medu Netcher. Aziz attended college at Kent State University with a focus on language studies, he has also studied the Egyptian Hieroglyphs under the tutelage of Seba Wujau Iry Maat at Seshew Maa ny Medew Netcher and continues to be a life long student of the language.

Through his MADDU initiative, and from having a background in the arts, entrepreneurship, and community organizing, he has also been interested in finding creative ways to engage the larger community through popular media as well as in-person workshops with scholarship centered on classical African history and culture.

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