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Embark on a journey through the revolutionary heartbeat of Africa with me, Kwame, as we honor the legacy of Africa Day and the fearless leaders who paved the way for the continent's future.

In this powerful episode, we dissect the historical and ongoing struggles for independence and self-determination, setting the stage for a discussion on the continent's transformative uprisings.

From the shadows of colonialism to the present fight against Western dominance, we pay homage to the unyielding African spirit, celebrating icons such as Kwame Nkrumah and Haile Selassie, while also mourning the silenced voices of African leaders who dared to stand up to external powers.

Witness the rise of a new generation of revolutionary leaders as they navigate a treacherous path toward sovereignty and self-reliance, undeterred by threats and foreign skepticism.

In an era proclaimed by the United Nations as the Decade of African Renaissance, we delve into the strategic alliances and regional pacts shaping Africa's destiny.

With an astrological nod to the Age of Aquarius, symbolizing rebirth and solidarity, this discussion examines both the promise and peril of Africa's reawakening. We scrutinize the role of international partnerships, particularly with Russia, urging vigilance to ensure these relationships bolster, rather than undermine, Africa's autonomous aspirations. Join us for an unflinching look at the continent's quest for unity and freedom, a narrative that resonates with resilience and the collective pursuit of a prosperous future for all Africans.

Sources:

Burkina Faso: Ibrahim Traoré Dedicates Over 78 Billion CFA Francs in Equipment to Enhance Agricultural Sector – AfriSQuare

Burkina Faso to launch its first gold refinery by the end of 2024 - Ecofin Agency

- Burkina Faso Expels French Diplomats for 'Subversive Activities' - allAfrica.com

Senegal's newly elected President announces immediate probe and renegotiation of all Oil, Gas and Mining contracts handed out by former leader - Kaieteur News (kaieteurnewsonline.com)

Mali inks significant deal with Russia for gold refinery project in Bamako | Africanews

Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso: Three coup struck countries sign mutual defence pact | Nation

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Discover the true culprits behind the Ghanaian cedi's downward spiral in a candid discussion that goes beyond the usual suspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

I'm Kwame, your guide through the complex economic landscape of Ghana, bringing you a narrative that's not just about the numbers but the lives they reflect.

We'll navigate through the government's policy effects over the last five years, highlighting how periods of sharp fluctuation have impacted everything from taxi fares to school fees, and what policy shifts could potentially anchor the cedi's value.

As we peel back the layers of Ghana's fiscal challenges, you'll learn how the cessation of the IMF program and the government's borrowing habits sparked a domino effect, culminating in the cedi's significant depreciation.

The story doesn't end at the currency exchange rate; we explore the real-life consequences, such as the dollarization pressures that have citizens scrambling for dollars for major expenses.

Join me in dissecting the economic mismanagement and untangling the web of multinational companies' profit retention, as we propose robust solutions to keep profits within Ghana's borders, reinforcing its economy and the cedi's stability.

Sources:

USDGHS US Dollar Ghanaian Cedi - Currency Exchange Rate Live Price Chart (tradingeconomics.com)

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This week's edition of Ghana in focus investigates the trend of big companies leaving Ghana.

Ghana is considered as the gateway to Afrika.  However due to the severe economic challenges the country is going through many big businesses have been compelled to leave Ghana.

This state of affairs is worrying particularly as the government  sees industrialization as a key policy and two that Ghana is the headquarters of the African Continental Free Trade Area.

We explore some of the key reasons why many large companies have left Ghana such as high interest rates, import duties and the cedi to US Dollar depreciation.

We advise that government needs to take active steps to ensure some of these issues are addressed .  Failure to do so could mean more companies leaving Ghana and more importantly Ghana being a less attractive place in which to do business.

Sources: List of multinational companies that have left Ghana in recent times (ghanaweb.com)

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This week's edition of Ghana in focus analyses why Ghanaian youth should stay in Ghana rather than seeking greener pastures on the West.

Over the last 4 years there has been a marked increase in the numbers of Ghanaians that have left the country.

We explain some of the reasons why Ghanaians have decided to leave the country.

We then go into detail as to why Ghanaian youth should stay at home and fight for their rights.

We explain why Ghanaian youth are allowing the political elite and the sub kings (Chiefs) to get away with the corruption and mismanagement of the country by not holding them to account and taking the easy option by leaving the country.

We end by stating some of the consequences of Ghanaian youth leaving Ghana. 

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This week's edition of Afrika in Focus looks at the vexed issue of land in South Afrika.

Land was a fundamental issue in the whole FREEDOM struggle in South Afrika.

We detail the importance of land to a people and how central land is to the nation building aspect of a people.

We detail how Mandela and the ANC (Afrikan National Congress) were manipulated to leave the land issue in the so called negotiations in favour of political power.

We analyse how this has led to an unacceptable situation where White/ European people in South Afrika occupy 72% of the most fertile land whilst the majority Afrikan population  have less than 10% of the land in thier own country.

We detail the genesis of this illegal land grab by the Europeans in the Native Land Act of 1913.

We state how because of this illegal annexation of Afrikan land by the European that Afrikan people in South Afrika have become landless, stateless and homeless in their own land and the economic consequences of this.

We end by stating that Nelson Mandela and the ANC  ARE traitors in the sense they had an historic duty and an historic opportunity to take the land and give it back to its rightful Afrikan owners but they FAILED in this historic  duty in favour of trinkets and betrayed the majority Afrikan population who trusted them resulting in a new and dangerous form of APARTHIED!!

Sources: 

Natives Land Act, 1913 - Wikipedia

These graphs reveal the truth about black and white management in South Africa – BusinessTech

John Pilger - Apartheid didnt Die (youtube.com)

Orania - Why the controversial whites only town in South Africa is growing rapidly (youtube.com)

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This week's edition of Afrika in Focus looks at 30 years of so called democracy in  South Afrika. 

30 Years ago this week Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South Afrika.

We state that the system of apartheid never ended with the election of Nelson Mandela and the ANC (African National Congress) government.

We start by advising the public that the system of apartheid ushered in by the Dutch Europeans was a very systemically, calculated plan to subjugate and relegate the African to subservient status in their own country.

We detail how this system of apartheid led to the struggle to end apartheid by activists like Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko.

We advise the listenership that it was the collective efforts of the global African family that forced the hand of the wicked apartheid regime under F W De Klerk to release Nelson Mandela and other senior members of the ANC from prison.

We also highlight the white supremacist faction that tried to derail the so called negotiations to multi party democracy.

We state how Mandela and the ANC allowed themselves to be manipulated by the likes of the 'Afrikaner' Brotherhood to drop key aspects of  the Freedom Charter that included the return of stolen land and the re distribution of  wealth.

We end by stating that 30 years after the so called historic election and symbolism of Nelson Mandela becoming the first democratically elected president of South Afrika, South Afrika is still under a form of apartheid that is more pernicious than formalised apartheid, and that the ANC has failed the majority of Africans who put their trust in them in favour of safeguarding white/European interests.

Sources:
Nigeria’s Role in Ending Apartheid in South Afrika – Msingi Afrika Magazine

Afrikaner Broederbond - Wikipedia

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | Israel | The Guardian

(1) How Nelson Mandela Sold B!ack people Out !! - YouTube(1)

The Betrayal of Black South Africans by Nelson Mandela: Exposing the Truth - YouTube

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This week's edition of Afrika in Focus looks at Rwanda 30 years on from the genocide that resulted in the loss of over 1 million Afrikan lives. 

The western media and political establishments present the narrative that Rwanda is an Afrikan economic 'miracle' and the leadership of Kagame is an example of progressive Afrikan leadership.

The essence of this podcast is to challenge this western narrative by debunking this idea that somehow Kagame is a saint.

We start by highlighting the historical legacy of colonialism and imperialism, including the murder of more than 10 million Afrikans by King Leopold II of Belgium that was at the root of the 1994 genocide.

We advise that The Europeans had a big hand on the 1994 genocide as identified by the role the Catholic church had in it and also pose the question who supplied the arms to Rwanda and its mix of armed forces including Kagame's Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) that became victorious after the 1994 genocide and civil war.

 We then delve into the REAL governorship and leadership style of Kagame.  We point there IS NO democracy in the country and the opposition has been silenced by Kagame.  We state how some journalists who have criticised Kagame's style of leadership have either been jailed or silenced.   

We end by stating that the genocide of 1994 was a collective Afrikan failure and that Kagame has used his backing from the West to enrich himself, family and close allies at the expense of the majority of the people of Rwanda.
Sources:
Leopold II: Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past - BBC News

The Role of the Catholic Church in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (researchgate.net)

Proof Kagame used pensions to fund his businesses Who will save the Rwandan pension money from RPF’s Crystal Ventures Ltd? | Therwandan

The Rwandan Patriotic Front’s business empire (economist.com)

Rwanda gives DR Congo back tonnes of smuggled minerals - BBC News
DRC says Rwandan mineral smuggling costs it almost $1bn a year (ft.com)
I criticised Rwanda’s leader – now I wake up screaming after constant online attacks | Michela Wrong | The Guardian

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This week's edition of Afrika in Focus continues our series looking into the beauty industry.

We look into the epidemic of skin bleaching in the global Afrikan community.

Before this we put a rap on the hair issue and state the damaging toxic chemicals that are present in the hair products.

We advise what chemicals to look out for and also provide natural alternatives to these toxic, dangerous chemicals.

We also condemn some Afrikan (Black) women who die their hair blonde or wear blonde wigs advising of the white supremacist aryan symbolism of the whole notion of blonde-ness in the European/ white narrative.

We then delve into the disturbing issue of skin bleaching that is prevalent amongst some Afrikan women,

We identify some of the reasons why some Afrikan women are bleaching their God given carbon melanated skin that they were blessed with.

We advise Afrikan women to love themselves and not fall for the  vicious European propaganda of so called beauty standards not forgetting that true beauty comes from within.

We end by stating the harmful health consequences of skin bleaching including skin cancer.

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Sources:

The Hazardous Chemicals Lurking in Black Hair Care Products | Sierra Club

Pope Francis prays at the Black Madonna of Czestochowa (youtube.com)

Pope Francis I and Benedict XVI praying to a Black Madonna (youtube.com)

(2) Dr Carol Barnes | Melanin The Chemical Key To Black Greatness - YouTube

The horrible effect of bleaching the skin | Vivian Oputa | TEDxLagos (youtube.com)

Effects of skin lightening/ Bleaching: Skin bleaching dangers (youtube.com)

Black Women Skin Bleaching Epidemic (youtube.com)

bible passage depicting Christ - Revelation 1:15

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This week's edition of Afrika in Focus examines the effects of the hair care industry on Afrikan (Black) women.

We start by analysing why Afrikan women globally spend huge amounts of money trying to look like European women.

We then go into depth using history and mind control techniques how Afrikan women were programmed to hate their nappy, kinky, woolly hair and use all sorts of methods to straighten it.

We highlight some of the devastating chemicals that Afrikan women are putting into their heads and some of damaging health consequences of this.

We also look at the issue of weaves/ wigs and expose that these are in the main made from the hair of Hindu Indian women who have gone through  certain religious / spiritual sacrifices and rituals.

We also look at the economic and spiritual consequences of wearing hair that belongs to another group of people .

Finally we advise that Afrikan women must NOW WAKE UP and understand that their pursuit of European standards of beauty is having a devastating impact on their health, spirituality and  is economically enriching others and impoverishing their own communities.

As our ancestors in Ancient Kemet (Egypt) entreated the Afrikan female with the saying: Woman know thyself!!

Sources:

🇮🇳 Hair India | Witness (youtube.com)

Is Weave From India Cursed? (youtube.com)

Indian hair, a golden business (youtube.com)

Hair Facts: 50 Impressive Black Hair Industry Statistics | All Things Hair US

Black Women Spend Half a Trillion Dollars on Haircare and Weaves! Why? — MadameNoire

Key Black Hair Industry Statistics & Facts in 2023 (afrolovely.com)

Malcolm X - Who Taught You to Hate Yourself? (youtube.com)

Do Black Hair Products Cause FIBROIDS? A Doctor Explains (youtube.com)

Toxic Hair Products Are Being Marketed to Black Women | Unpack That (youtube.com)

Hair products for Black women contain mix of hazardous ingredients (youtube.com)

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This week's edition of Ghana in Focus ends our heritage month series looking at aspects of Ghanaian life.

This week we analyse why the LGBTQ agenda is anti Ghanaian family values.

This is in light of the anti LGBTQ bill unanimously passed in the Ghanaian parliament that is now awaiting the President of the Republic of Ghana to ascend the bill into law.

We explain the essence of traditional Ghanaian family values, its importance and significance in the Afrikan spiritual realm.

We explain how in recent years Ghanaian family values has been undermined by the subtle promotion of the LGBTQ+  agenda in Ghana by western backed agencies.

We advise how and why the LGBTQ+ agenda is a threat to not only traditional Ghanaian family values but to the very existence of  the country itself.

We also strongly condemn threats made by the West in particular the United States to withhold 'aid and development' money to Ghana should the President sign the bill into law.

We advise that the United States has no right to lecture Ghanaians on human rights when the United States violates daily, the human rights of African Americans as in the George Floyd murder.

Secondly we Africans do not thrust on western societies the idea of polygamy as it is prohibited in the West so in turn the West MUST respect our desire as Ghanaians to uphold our traditional family values.

We assert that those who support the LGBTQ+ agenda are anti Ghanaian family values.

We end by stating that Ghana is a sovereign state that has the right to do what is in its own interest without interference from others and urge the president to undertake his constitutional right and sign the bill into law.

Sources:

The HISTORIC TRUTH Sam George Anti LGBTQ Bill Ghana Parliament and Akufo Addo Ties (youtube.com)

American Companies Can Leave|| Ghana Lawmaker Sam George Says American Companies That Support LGBTQ - YouTube

Ghanaian MP Sam George boldly schools the West on LGBT and family values at UN Summit (youtube.com)

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