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rikans, no clear cut vision for Afrika, mis-information? another mole in the globalist payroll
which they can use their skills for to steal from Afrika all over again.
and thus, they are easy targets by the Why is it important to take a critical And mind you, I am not saying that
global imperialists to create an army look at this trend going on among all Afrikan youths that are into social
of tech savvy young Afrikans, who our youths? First, to not to look at media content creation do it from
are complicit in destroying their own it now is to sentence the future of the place of compromise or for
people. Afrika to some unavoidable destruc- money, I am just saying that most of
tion. Because, if what drives the the thoughts behind their creativity
Take for instance, we had an issue content creation of Afrikan youths are rooted in wanting to make mon-
with YouTube a while back in which is making money and the other ey. Would you blame them? Not re-
one of the videos we shared on things that come with it like fame, ally. Especially in this age where the
our channel was considered to go popularity, subscriptions, likes etc., rate of unemployment is skyrock-
against the YouTube community then where will the future leaders eting. Social media content creation
guidelines, so it was taken down just who will uphold the true uncompro- simply made a “legal and clean way”
as we uploaded it. What they considered mised Afrikan narrative and ideals for them to be engaged, making a
against their community guidelines was come from? living while at it. However, the dan-
actually that we posted an Afrikan remedy Secondly, if it is true that he who ger of making legal money through
for Covid-19. Think about this. pays the piper dictates the tune of social media, while consciously or
the music, do we not already have unconsciously aligned with a global
We shared the experience with a a problem on our hands, since the covert SOCIAL MEDIA IMPERI-
friend who is in charge of a much “tunes of the Afrikan music” are ALIST AGENDA is what we have
bigger YouTube channel and his already beeing dictated by those who to watch out for. The false pandem-
response was very telling of how paid for it? And does that not show ic has shown a lot of things that
much this generation of young you how difficult it will be to make had been going on underground,
Afrikans have been compromised a revolutionary move against the im- especially with the social media plat-
due to the quest for money. He perialist agendas of foreign powers forms. For if you ask yourself why
told us in an I-really-don’t-care way in Afrika? Does it not show that the social media, which was supposed to
that if we want to make money out wealth of Afrika will continue to be be a place where people get accurate
of our YouTube channel, we must pillaged by foreign powers, espe- information and daily help when
follow their rules or be taken down cially now that there is a common needed, suddenly become like a po-
if it’s revolution we want to create. trend in which young Afrikans build licing agency for global domination
In other words, he was saying, you software and new technologies, agendas, you will see and then know
cannot go against the rules set down but go ahead to sell them to rich why it is dangerous for our youths
by the tools of the imperialists if tech companies in the many silicon not to understand the tools in their
you want to make money from them valleys of this world? Is that not the hands.
and also that the reason why his future of Afrika that is being sold Meaning that, young people, espe-
own channel will never upload vid- for immediate gratification? cially the ones with a big following
eos that go against the imperialist’s We all know that when such tech- on social media, no longer even
ideas is because they don’t want the nologies are sold for, let’s say understand what it means to have
flow of YouTube money to stop. I 1million dollars, in two years’ time, a revolutionary mind, talk less of
am talking about a channel that has that same software in the hands using their platforms to correct the
almost a million subscribers. If you of the new owners will likely be many ills and evils in our society.
are a content creator reading this ar- generating millions upon millions, Just because they want to make
ticle, I am pretty sure you are aware if not billions of dollars. Not to talk money. It’s even more interesting
of the strict censorship of content of the brain drain that is also going that it’s these same young Afrikans
going on in some of the most popu- on right now. A situation where the that like to call Afrika backward. But
lar social media platforms. But have brightest and most promising of it’s hypocritical at best because you
you asked yourself why that is? Or Afrikan youths are given scholar- cannot hold in your right hand the
are you naive to think and believe it’s ships to go study abroad or innova- chicken and chips of the imperialist,
because they care about mis-infor- tors or sportsmen and women are while pointing the left hand of ac-
mation? Or do you maybe know the given jobs overseas. You know what cusation to the globalist for making
truth, that they are actually censor- happens. They don’t return to Afrika Afrika poor or backward.
ing true information while pushing and when they do, they just become

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