The downside of a psyop these days is that the conceivers of the idea are no longer in control of the consumption patterns, interpretation, nuance, and overall outcomes of the distractions – thanks to a liberalized social media ecosystem that amplifies raw truth faster than scripted narratives can contain it.
The best example unfolding right now is the South Africa xenophobia fallout. This annual ritual is deliberately engineered by the South African political establishment and the remnants of the apartheid regime.
Both collaborate to distract attention from their own complicity in looting resources, disenfranchising citizens, and the glaring lack of genuine political reform. They use African immigrants as convenient bait to trigger less-educated citizens into blaming their fellow Black brothers for problems of their own creation.
This World Cup is turning out to be an utter embarrassment. The entire African continent has – without any choreographed campaign – naturally aligned with opposing teams facing Bafana Bafana in the group stages.
And what a humiliating spectacle it is. Because the scripted xenophobic sentiment was never the core issue; it was the deafening silence of prominent voices that truly showed Africa just how contemptuous South Africa has become.
Then came the deportation of Somali referee Artan Abdikadir. His seven-hour interrogation at Miami International Airport and subsequent ejection via a Turkish Airlines flight carried all the hallmarks of a psyop.
It was crafted to trigger widespread backlash, followed by the predictable institutional response: endless press conferences filled with empty word salad and filibustering from the mascots of bureaucratic malfeasance and institutional rot – FIFA President Gianni Infantino and CAF President Patrice Motsepe.
All of it designed to keep their rotten, disgusting faces in circulation and artificially inflate their relevance in a world that has no time for their garbage.
It is now emerging that the five African referees engaged for the “Epstein World Cup” were merely reserves, not even fully confirmed match officials. A continent packed with corrupt FA presidents – who form the core of Infantino’s political support base – could only muster five reserve referees.
The shame peaked when European football body UEFA confirmed Artan as the center referee for their Super Cup. In one fell swoop, Infantino’s 2027 re-election bid went from seemingly secured to uncertain and fiercely contested, all because of the shame and disrepute he has brought upon the world of football.
This is no longer merely a football matter. This is national security. It puts a sharp focus on heads of state in Africa who have granted audience to Gianni Infantino – demagogues and despots like Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, the colonial puppet who engineered Patrice Motsepe’s CAF presidency.
Rwanda’s toxic and degenerate contribution to the collapse of African football cannot be overstated. The diversion of local funds to support European teams under the guise of promoting their country’s (imaginary) tourism sector is not by accident; it is the manifestation of a mind heavily infested with colonial parasites.
This is precisely why Gianni Infantino uses Kagame to manipulate other pliable and highly excitable African presidents, who view hosting Infantino for press conferences as some grand measure of footballing achievement.
This colonial capitulation has led to the outright hijacking of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). A Swiss citizen, Veron Mosengo-Omba, became Secretary General and has now migrated to become president of the DRC’s Football Association – a travesty and political atrocity never before witnessed in the history of African football.
Under this regime, CAF has adopted new hiring policies where 60% of employees are no longer Africans but foreigners. The Head of Protocol is literally a Brazilian – something unimaginable for an African working in other confederations like CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, or UEFA, given the institutionalized anti-African sentiment embedded there.
In their infinite stupidity, they are scheming to engineer Veron Mosengo-Omba’s election as CAF president after Motsepe exits to become the next South African president, replacing his brother-in-law Cyril Ramaphosa, with the backing of vassal and degenerate states like Rwanda and Morocco.
This is the depths to which world football has sunk since the US engineered a judicial coup at FIFA, deposed Sepp Blatter as president, and installed the Jared Kushner puppet Gianni Infantino – turning the beautiful game into a theatre of juvenile delinquency, mental impotence, and institutional malfeasance.
Heads of state have been put on notice: if you fail to rein in your FA presidents – those bribed with handouts to entrench this bandwagon of football dictators – the citizens will rein in you.
Now, as Africans, we are talking as one. You can see our unified response to South Africa’s xenophobia. You can see our collective anger at the deportation of the Somali referee. You can feel our rage after the Senegal team was stripped and treated like thugs by US immigration.
Reign in your corrupt FA presidents – these hopeless joyriders who have sacrificed African football at the altar of colonialism and globalization.
Change, or perish.
