Africans across the continent and worldwide are outraged about tech giants banning African Stream across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and Gmail. In this video, Seun Kuti, musician, singer and Pan-Africanist organiser with @MOVEMENTOFTHEP1 (on X) (and son of revolutionary African music icon Fela Kuti) spoke up about the hypocrisy of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claiming African Stream is ‘secretly run’ by RT.
How can the United States denounce African Stream for supposedly ‘attempting to influence US elections’ and allegedly representing ‘foreign interests’ when BBC and CNN are allowed to spread information designed to influence African audiences?
The BBC and Voice of America (VOA) are state-funded media that explicitly promote pro-British and pro-US interests, respectively. BBC says it aims to ‘reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world.’ Voice of America (VOA) is even more explicit in its mission. The US Agency for Global Media states on its website, ‘The long-range interests of the United States are served by communicating directly with the peoples of the world by radio.’
So, BBC can work to spread British values, and the US can create worldwide radio programmes to serve US interests, but Africans are not allowed to have a media platform that works for African interests? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Video credit: @bigbirdkuti on IG, @realseunkuti on X
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thats realy f..t up but dont give up my fellow africans let make an revolution
Don’t worry about your haters-they are everywhere.
Just focus on building your platform in a way pleasing to God most high and he will take care of everything else✝️
What God says Yes to, No man can say no⚡️⚡️⚡️
God said YES to African Stream💯💯
This is exactly why monopolizing the internet is dangerous. These weirdos now have the power to do what they’ve always done, censor what they don’t like. It’s gotten so bad that even the West doesn’t like it’s own leaders
The African should place a total ban on western media outlets, their publications and news platforms. They’ve enjoyed a complete monopoly since the colonial days and it should end now. Countries like South Africa have stopped flighting of RT, for example. It’s countries like SA that must take the lead, we don’t the west to survive or flourish. Itvs the other around, actually. Ignore the noises about scaring off foreign investors. Those will be from the west but there are lots more investors from the east and the African continent itself.
If Africans like Thomas Mensah and Philip Emeagwali and other unnamed Blacks have contributed to the development of the internet and associated technologies, that indicates to me that we have the talent within our own race to create a private internet for global Africans. Create our own marketplace. Network. Mzungus can’t be allowed to control ALL information and write our narratives. I reject it. It is not sustainable for us to suffer indignities and kowtow to Neanderthals. We WILL restore our autonomy and sovereignty. We can only depend on ourselves. Only we can solve our problems. Tuko pamoja! Aluta continua!