ABSTRACT This paper examines globalization and international politics of mass media, its controversy to the development of contemporary Africa: issues and way advancing. Media is among the speedy development of technology that exchange information due to its technological proficiencies that enable information to be swiftly and widely disseminated around the globe through the acts of international politics and globalization. This act of massive dissemination of information through the media made it imperative for power holders to control the global affairs using media and consequently subjugated African development. The paper is undergirded with social exclusion theory. Qualitative data was used. The paper argues that Africa, since post independence had been under subjugation by the hegemony power of the developed world in terms of media control on Africa. Globalization and international politics of mass media was marked by an unprecedented dictatorship of west leading to the suppression and muscling down of contemporary Africa. The paper concludes that the struggle by the African state in globalization and international politics of mass media against the hegemony power of Europe and USA is extensively denied and resulted in both international and domestic pressures that eventually forced backwardness in African development.