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Beyond the Public Facade: What Germany’s Far-Right Leadership Says Behind Closed Doors

Tue Oct. 20, 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — A major cyberattack targeting a hosting provider used by Germany’s far-right party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), resulted in the unlawful exposure of 281 gigabytes of internal party data, including 421,179 emails across ten accounts. Published online as an unedited archive accompanied by AI-generated summaries, the leak contains personal correspondence, bank statements, membership lists, and academic certificates belonging to top officials, including party co-leader Alice Weidel and former leader Alexander Gauland. While the AfD confirmed that a breach occurred in September 2026 and stated it was conducting an internal investigation, the sheer volume of leaked records has brought unprecedented public scrutiny to the party’s internal operations. Continue reading →

Beyond the Colonial Shadow: The Financial Risk and Cultural Triumph of Love Brewed in the African Pot

From Objects to Authors: The Evolution of African Cinema

1. The Paternalistic Era: Cinema as a Colonial Tool (1900–1950s)

The history of cinema in Africa began not as an indigenous art form, but as a colonial novelty. In 1900, a French circus group projected the Lumière brothers’ L’arroseur arrosé in a Dakar marketplace, a moment that marked the arrival of a medium that would be used for decades to document Europe’s “Other.” Early European cinema focused on newsreels and ethnographic studies that prioritized colonial solidarity, often erasing indigenous tensions to present a sanitized view of the continent.To control the African “gaze,” colonial administrations established dedicated film units. While their methods overlapped, their underlying motivations were distinct: Continue reading →

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AfD Cyber Leak and Russian Ties

How African Filmmakers Reclaimed the Screen

From Objects to Authors: The Evolution of African Cinema

1. The Paternalistic Era: Cinema as a Colonial Tool (1900–1950s)

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The Economic and Strategic Costs of Cosplaying Madness

Badenoch Declares “Britain Not Being Governed”

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