Alkebulanians,

Africa had 10 teams at the 2026 World Cup. 9 qualified for the knockout stage. Then almost all got knocked out immediately. What does that actually mean?

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I break down Africa’s World Cup performance with full honesty, the wins, the losses, and the deeper problem nobody wants to say out loud. Congo held England until the 70th minute and then collapsed mentally.

Egypt dominated Argentina and got robbed by the officials. Cape Verde, a country of 500,000 people, played without fear and nearly knocked out the tournament favourites. The difference between those teams reveals everything.

Argentina exits the tournament as one of the most hated nations on earth. The racism is out in the open now. Their only currency is football. With Messi finished, Di Maria gone, Enzo Fernandez disgraced, what do they have left?

The World Cup exposed every structural problem on the African continent at once. The question now is what we do about it.

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Alkebulanians,

There is a reason they hid the actual data from history books on what African nations did to save South Africa from Apartheid. I told you about Nigeria but the full scope of this was beyond what I could have imagined in terms of continent wide sacrifice.

The June 30 deadline came and went.

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Anti-migrant groups had set that date for undocumented Africans to leave South Africa, and by mid-July the country’s own Home Affairs minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi, confirmed the result: 53,449 people processed for deportation or repatriation since mid-June, more than 80% of them Malawians.

Malawi alone repatriated 38,094 of its citizens in a single month, on more than 570 buses. Six died on the road home.

On the podcast, I asked who profits when Africans kill Africans.

This is the piece the podcast couldn’t fit: the historical ledger.

I already talked about Nigeria who paid by far the highest sum to free South Africa to the tune of 100 BILLION dollars.

However, there were other nations that made sacrifices and countries whose citizens are now being loaded onto buses, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, also sit on the paying side of the most one-sided debt in modern African history.

They financed, sheltered, and bled for South Africa’s liberation.

Here is what that actually cost them, line by line. Some of this is absolutley astonishing and the fact this isn’t taught in African schools is sad.

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Alkebulanians,

In this episode, Africa grows the food, imports the fertiliser. Now that is changing as $600M is put behind Dangote to triple Nigeria's urea.

Plus a cocoa OPEC is in the works between Ghana and Ivory Coast, Somaliland in opened an embassy in Jerusalem, Zimbabwe's power grab is in effect, Niger airport under attack, and South Africa's anti immigrant deadline has arrived and it’s time to follow the money.

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We’ve come all the way from 1902 to today.

Now it is time for the hardest truth in the whole story.

When that Ebola facility got blocked in court, who actually stopped it?

Not the Kenyan government. The Kenyan government had already agreed to the deal. Before the court stepped in, this thing was going ahead. And there are reports the government tried to push it forward anyway, court order or not.

This conversation we need to have is about our own accountability to ourselves as Africans and our ability to force our governments to do what they should for us.

This is part 6 of 6

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When Britain was finally forced to answer for their crimes against humanity in Kenya, how long did it take, and what was it worth?

Here’s the answer.

This is part 5 of 6

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I will be giving my thoughts on the progress of African nations through the World Cup in USA and Mexico. This first week was crazy.

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Chapters

• 00:00 The Shocking World Cup Backlash Against South Africa

• 01:59 Operation Dudula, Evacuations, & The June 30 Deadline

• 04:14 The Poetic Irony of Travel Bans & Border Politics

• 07:50 Litmus Test: How Xenophobia Destroys Economic Investment

• 10:49 Congo Defies The Odds: A Historic Draw With Portugal

• 12:28 Nigeria’s Football Collapse vs. Ghana’s World Cup Presence

• 14:41 The Reality of African Football: Pain, Pride, & Global Representation

• 18:50 The Bitter Football Rivalry Between Nigeria & Ghana

• 24:29 Morocco Holds Brazil: A Lesson in Professional Execution

• 29:24 Senegal vs. France: Dealing With The Kylian Mbappé Storm

• 32:38 Egypt & Tunisia: Navigating Hard Brackets & Tough Draws

• 36:28 The Incredible Cape Verde Fairytale & Vozinha’s Masterclass

• 40:39 CazéTV, Viral Stardom, & Breaking U.S. Visa Restrictions

• 45:26 Confronting Arrogance: Tracing Nigeria’s Decay Since 1994 & 1996

• 53:03 Ivory Coast Defeats Ecuador & Prepares For The German Test

• 57:46 Algeria Fights Argentina: Facing Lionel Messi In New York

• 01:00:34 Free Webinar: Demystifying African Economic Structures

When people ask, “Why is Africa poor?” my answer is simple. Africa isn’t poor. Africa is the greatest crime scene in human history.

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Africa is the richest place on earth

Oil. Gold. Coltan. Cobalt. Uranium. Diamonds. Gas. Lithium. Timber. Fertile land. Young people. Ancient knowledge. Strategic location.

So the real question is not, “Why is Africa poor?”

It’s ‘how did the richest continent on earth get trapped in poverty?’

I made a video about billionaire Aliko Dangote building Nigeria’s first fully operational oil refinery in decades. That video hit millions of views because Africans understood what it represented.

Proof.

Proof that we can build and produce for ourselves.

And that we don’t need to remain dependent forever.

But in that same video, I also told you that instead of congratulating Nigeria for pulling itself up by its bootstraps, the World Bank told us to open up the oil industry to more competition.

Insane.

It also raised a much bigger question. How did Nigeria, one of the biggest oil producers in the world, become a country that had to import refined fuel?

How does a country with over 44 commercially viable minerals end up drowning in debt to nations that do not have a fraction of what we have?

How did almost every African nation become trapped inside a global financial system that keeps us borrowing, begging, devaluing, privatizing, and selling off pieces of ourselves just to survive?

The answer is not the African laziness and corruption propaganda. That is a symptom.

The answer is economics.

In my time since creating this platform, I have learned about African debt. Currency control. Trade dependency. Structural adjustment. Foreign ownership. Post-independence agreements. And systems built long before most of us were born.

Now I want to teach you what I have discovered.

I have built a free 4 part mini-course, delivered straight to your inbox.

Not hours of boring lectures. Just simple, clear, pre-recorded video email breakdowns of the Debt Trap and the systems used to keep African economies from truly prospering. THIS IS A MUST WATCH FOR ALL PAN AFRICANS

By the end, you will understand why Africa can be rich in resources and still be forced into poverty. You will also discover why African poverty is essential to the maintenance of Western economic dominance.

With the Alkebulan Academy in 2027, I am making African ignorance a choice.

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I left you in 1959, at a place called Hola.

I’m now going to tell you what happened there.

It’s hard to read, but you need to know it.

This is part 4 of 6

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I recently saw a video about Black American women marrying Nigerian men and becoming “more Nigerian than Nigerians,” and it brought me so much joy. In this episode, we explore the deep significance of this trend.

Chapters

• 00:00 - Intro: The Viral Video & The Motherland Connection

• 00:45 - What Slavery Stole: Identity, Names, & Religion

• 01:30 - The Spiritual “Source Code”: Why It Just Fits

• 02:15 - Why Nigerian Men? (Flamboyance & Authenticity)

• 03:00 - The Strategic Alliance: Options for the Diaspora

• 04:10 - Unity: Building the Bridge Back Home

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Last time I told you a Kenyan doctor called the US Ebola facility a “containment colony,” and I promised you that word was chosen on purpose.

Buckle up. It’s time for some true African history.

This is part 2 of 6

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The Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has taken the Nigerian government to court in a historic move that is shaking the continent. I will be writing articles on this to walk you through what is going on and the historic implications but for a clean overview right now watch the video below. This is absolutely crazy.

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Last time we left off in 1902 with quarantine camps.

Now I need you to understand what that logic became.

This one is heavy.

This is part 3 of 6

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Last week, the United States tried to build an Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya to hold its own citizens. No, not Kenyans, Americans.

This is part 1 of 6

It would have been a 50-bed facility built by the US on a Kenyan air force base.

As if this wasn’t crazy enough, here’s the part that really solidifies what was going on there. If one of those quarantined Americans actually got sick, they wouldn’t be treated in Kenya. They’d be flown to Europe.

It’s already happened this outbreak. A US doctor who caught Ebola in the DRC went to Germany. Another exposed American went to the Czech Republic.

So Kenya wouldn’t be getting a hospital to help their people, they would be getting used as a holding pen. A place to find out who’s infected, then ship the valuable patients to Europe and leave everyone else behind.

They won’t risk these people bringing Ebola home to America. But they’ll happily risk Kenyans catching it. You’re going to do to us what you won’t do to yourselves.

At the end of the day these are deals and that means Kenya has to be getting something out of this (or at least William Ruto and his adminsitration who signed it) right? Check this nonsense out…

Marco Rubio offered around $13.5 million for “Ebola preparedness.”

Sounds generous. Actually no it isn’t, that’s peanuts for what they’re asking of Kenya.

Regardless, there’s another factor that gives this amount context.

It’s a steep cut from the hundreds of millions the US used to give Kenya in health funding. So they’re actually paying less and demanding more. That’s the whole game.

With all the madness, there is some good news.

A Kenyan rights group, the Katiba Institute, took this to the High Court and the judge sided with them and suspended the whole plan.

At least someone over there has some sense.

Even America’s own CDC apparently advised against the facility.

So if the doctors say no, and the CDC says no, who’s pushing it?

Simple answer.

Donny T and Rubio. The US government in conjunction with William Ruto and the Kenyan government. Kenya’s medical union chair, Davji Atela, gave a great quote.

He then went on to call it a ‘containment colony.’

Remember that phrase. Because those doctors didn’t pick it for drama.

They picked it because they know their history.

And Kenya has lived this exact story before.

Twice.

Next, in parts 2-6 for premium subscribers, I will be connecting dots for you and drawing the correlations that matter. We will take a trip back into true African history, how a plague in 1902 taught the colonisers to cage Africans in the name of “public health”, and why it’s the blueprint for what just happened with Ebola.

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The largest humanitarian crisis on the planet right now isn’t where you think it is.

Here are the two videos I made on this topic that I urge you to watch:

The RSF. The foreign money keeping them armed. The Gulf state quietly funding the slaughter. And the strangest twist of all, why the US-Iran standoff may have accidentally bought Sudan a few weeks of breathing room.

But what happens when the Middle East cools down?

This isn’t about gold. It isn’t about land. There is a much older campaign at work here, one that traces back to the 7th century and it is being carried out in plain sight while the world looks away.

I’m using coded language just to get this past the censors.

Watch. Share. Don’t let this one happen in the dark

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Another epic 2 HR show. We covered a lot in this one.

An absolute firestorm is brewing in Central Africa, and the mainstream narrative is completely hiding the real context. In this late-night nightcap broadcast, I discuss the sudden, highly suspicious resurgence of the Ebola virus (the rare Bundibugio strain) in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict zones.

Why is a disease dormant for over a decade magically reappearing in the exact regions central to Western mineral survival right now?

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We connect the diabolical dots: how pandemic declarations are historically weaponised to mandate international access, overwrite sovereignty, and override local leadership when sanctions, propaganda, and military bases fail.

If it crosses into active genocide war zones like Sudan and trickles across the Sahel Alliance (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso), the West secures a perfect “humanitarian” backdoor to play hero and regain total structural control.

We also expose the blatant psychological conditioning behind the U.S. ordering the DRC World Cup squad to undergo a strict 21-day isolation, despite the entire roster playing professionally in Europe!

It isn’t about public health; it’s a calculated propaganda move to keep reinforcing the image of the dangerous Black body.

Later in the stream, we discuss the systemic failure of Black billionaires and celebrities, from Kevin Hart’s controversial roast deflection to the Met Gala silences. They are running psychological interference, selling a “chess move” illusion while preventing a true Black Wall Street revival.

In this Monday Night Cap, my stream of consciousness show, we had a lot to discuss.

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In one week the world saw a war in Iran cool down, a new Ebola outbreak conveniently surface in Congo, Mali's Defence Minister assassinated, Captain Traoré of Burkina Faso hit-pieced by Sky News, and another wave of xenophobic mob attacks against Black Afric…

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THIS is why true African history is important. We are simply ignorant of the truth.

Watch and discover what we were never taught👇🏾

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For 60 years, one of the world’s largest oil producers couldn’t refine its own fuel.

Export the crude. Import the petrol. Pay the markup. Stand in line for the shortage.

That just ended.

Aliko Dangote built a $27 billion mega-refinery and did in a few years what the Nigerian government and Western oil giants spent half a century avoiding.

You’d think the world would celebrate. Instead the World Bank and IMF are panicking and the sabotage has already started.

Why? What scares them about a Nigeria that refines its own oil? What does the 1980s have to do with this? And why is Kenya the warning everyone should be watching right now?

This is not about petrol. This is about dismantling a 40-year racket in broad daylight.

Watch the full breakdown in this episode 👆🏾

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Alkebulanians,

I need help with my platforms. It’s become too big to run on my own as I have multiple accounts of similar sizes. Here are the roles I need ASAP:

1. Social Media Manager

2. Video Editor

3. Sponsors and brand deal manager or negotiator

4. Graphic designer or virtual assistant for thumbnails and A.I. graphics

5. Copywriter with a focus on Africa and the Diaspora

6. Event Organiser (New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, DC) must have experience and references in response.

If you have experience in any of these roles then send a resume to info@themerc.io

Any responses without a reel and or references will not be considered.

Thank you

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