Continued…. The company paid her $250,000 to settle the matter. Other relationships involved an intern he later assigned to his executive staff, a woman he asked to bear his children, and a sexual relationship in 2014 with a woman he directly supervised, according to reporting by The Independent.

This is the same Elon Musk who: Interfered in African affairs by pressuring US officials to cut aid to South Africa over debunked claims of “white genocide,” and ignores allegations of exploitation in his global supply chains, including reported child labor linked to Congo’s cobalt mines. While Africa is lectured about “good governance” and “rule of law,” Western oligarchs like Musk operate with zero scrutiny, leveraging wealth to silence victims, protect reputations and expand empires.

Western media often sanitises such figures, but Pan-African voices must name the figures behind their power: white supremacy, capitalist predation, and patriarchal ennoscriptment.

Video credit: @joshwideawake on IG

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TINUBU HAILS PROGRESS AMIDST HARDSHIP

A nation’s economic progress is best measured by how many of its citizens have full bellies–or not.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is seeing improved economic data by neo-colonial entities like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, all while grappling with its worst cost-of-living crisis in 40 years.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is touting the IMF’s numbers, highlighting his radical reforms as a key factor in producing Nigeria’s best economic data in a decade. He ended a fuel subsidy and devalued the national currency twice. But the benefits have not trickled down to ordinary Nigerians, who are angry with the government over high inflation and widespread poverty. 

Continued……. Two years into his presidency, Nigerians are struggling to put food on the table. Ongoing issues with banditry and kidnappings exacerbate daily challenges, casting doubt on Tinubu’s assertion that the West African nation is heading in the right direction.

Dubbed the ‘tourist-in-chief’ due to his extensive travels, since coming into power in May 2023, Tinubu has embarked on 36 foreign trips, with over 15 occurring in his first six months as president, costing $2.2 million. In November 2023, his government faced criticism for funding the attendance of more than 400 Nigerians at the Cop28 Climate Summit in Dubai. Notably, affluent members of his All Progressives Congress Party have backed him for a second term in the upcoming 2027 general elections.

But for Nigeria’s starving majority, the ultimate judgment on Tinubu’s economic reforms hinges on whether their stomachs are full or empty.

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SOUTH AFRICA TAXIS LAUD TRAORÉ

If you thought the days of African revolutionaries gracing bumpers, rear windows and barber-shop murals were over, think again. 

In South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, Burkina Faso's Ibrahim Traoré's image is plastered on public minibus taxis in a show of love for the leader who came to power in a people-backed coup d’état in 2022. 

For many, Traoré represents a fierce rejection of neocolonial control and a bold reimagining of African leadership that is unapologetically Pan-Africanist. 

Global protests on 30 April in support of Burkina Faso and Traoré showed a continent and a diaspora ready to reclaim Africa’s sovereignty.  

Burkina Faso, along with Mali and Niger, expelled French troops and reclaimed national resources following recent people-backed coups. On 6 July 2024, the trio formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

Continued……. This new anti-imperialist bloc plans to create a federal, Pan-African state, with the eventual goal of uniting Africa under a single governance.

Video credit: @ashlainegovender on TikTok and @capitaineib226 on X

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HOW THE WEST DEMONISED VODOU

Vodou is gravely misunderstood worldwide. In the West, it has been portrayed as devil worship and cult-like. But even keeping the 6,000-year-old religion alive in its home country has been a challenge - chiefly thanks to colonialism and the barbaric slave trade.

We went to Benin to demystify the past, present and future of this vibrant religion.

IRISH FORGOT THEIR OPPRESSION

When Irish immigrants began arriving in the United States in large numbers, they were given the worst and most dangerous jobs, often laboring on canals, railroads, and docks for meager wages. Crowded into urban slums alongside free Blacks, they lived in conditions marked by poverty, crime, and disease.

The Irish had fled brutal conditions in their homeland, where British landlordism and the Penal Laws had rendered them nearly as powerless as enslaved Africans. Irish Catholics were legally and socially degraded, with officials even claiming they did not legally exist. Given this shared experience of racial and class oppression, it might be expected that Irish immigrants would empathize with the enslaved Black people . Yet, as Irish socialist and political activist Bernadette Devlin describes, many Irish chose to align with whiteness, opposing abolition and participating in violent attacks on Black communities to protect their own economic interests.

Continued……. This alignment with white supremacy helped the Irish gain access to jobs and political power, but at the cost of solidarity. While some today cite Irish success as proof that all groups can “make it,” such comparisons ignore the racial privileges the Irish were ultimately allowed to access. As former US president Lyndon Johnson put it, “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket.”
Credit : WBHG TV

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$105 MILLION PLAN FOR TULSA REPARATIONS UNVEILED

More than a century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the city’s first Black mayor has introduced a $105 million reparations initiative.

The Road to Repair aims to address the deep-rooted disparities caused by the massacre and its aftermath. Central to the plan is the creation of the Greenwood Trust, a private charitable trust intended to secure funding through private donations, property transfers and potentially public sources. Key allocations would include $24 million for homeownership programs and housing assistance; $60 million for building repairs and reconstructions; and $21 million for land acquisition, small business support, and scholarships. Additionally, 45,000 pages of historical documents related to the massacre will be released.