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Community
Re- Education

Samuel Phillips

writer, podcaster, photographer,

songwriter and singer.
As a content creator, he is passionate about
creating a better image and positive
narrative about Afrika.

neo-imperialism in afrika

Afrikan youths in the hands of social media imperialists

ntil recently, even inations of the Global West, they tion, political assassination or other
though I have been are eliminated. It has been the case forms of assassination and found
part of Msingi Afrika from the inception of the intrusion one thing in common with all their
UMagazine from the into Afrika by foreign powers. It stories. They stood for the liberation
onset, and have written more articles happened with Patrice Lumumba of of their people, took a stand for
than I can remember about Afrika, DRC, Thomas Sankara of Burkina revolution against imperialism but
I had not looked deeper into the Faso, Kwame Nkrumah of Gha- were “stopped” by the imperialists
issues of imperialism, colonialism na (removed from office), Samora using the very dirty and bloody
and the neo-colonialism that we Machel of Mozambique and the hands of the Afrikans closest to
are facing right now in Afrika and list continues. So, recently, I started them. The question is, what is it
the many reasons why it appears in reading books about the lives of the about dis-loyalty to a common goal
real time that whenever a person various Afrikan leaders that the dirty among Afrikans and why is it very
or a group of persons rise up in and bloody hands of the Imperialist easy to sell out the common goal for
Afrika to question the status quo, West and their Afrikan cohorts took self-glorification and unholy desires?
especially in regards to the mach- out, either by physical assassina- It beats my mind, to say the least.

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