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ories into school books and school
curricula, into movies, into novels,
into politicians, into news media and
so on; so that they can get every-
body thinking and talking along the
same lines. Either to become the
people who are going to be the tools
to run corporations that will achieve
the end of the people who are actu-
ally in charge, or to make sure that
resources are spent a certain way,
policy goes a certain way, or people
don’t actually have the mindset to
question the reality on the ground,
and to ask the questions that must
be asked: Why is Afrika the way
that it is? Why do we think the way
that we think? Why do we live the
way that we live? Why do we corral
ourselves into compounds or cliques
and associations that all seem to
conform to certain patterns?

For the people who don’t stop to
Watch the Conversation with Tet Kofi, Afrikan Jounalist in the UK actually question and just kind of
keep going, life seems to be just fine,
to get some of the software that we story; and why do you think it a little challenging sometimes, but
needed. Other people chipped in or, needs changing? otherwise just fine. For those who
you know, scraping together coins The Afrikan story has been a bunch take a moment to step back and
from different projects. And we of selected messages that have been look at the bigger picture of what’s
just got started with the magazine curated over time by people who going on, they quickly discover there
because we needed to. have a mindset that they want Afri- is a problem. It’s like that movie,
kans to conform to. That’s basically The Matrix, something else, another
The TV followed later, just last year it, there’s no other way to put it. So, reality is playing out that people are
in 2020, around this time is when we what has happened is that people, not actively, consciously, deliberately
began, because with the magazine known or unknown, have made a tapped into to be able to overcome,
yes, we were making traction, we decision about how Afrika should and that’s the hugest problem; peo-
were publishing every two months, think and what Afrika should gradu- ple are not even active participants
but then we realized that there’s so ally become, and in order to do that in life on earth, they are just tools
much more that needs to be said they seed thoughts messages, mem- and minions being used by some-
even about the topics that we have thing else working behind the scenes
shared in the magazine and we were
like, “How are we going to do this?”
And, so, we created an audio-visu-
al platform where we could share
thoughts that we had, or interactions
with the different brilliant minds
that we kept coming across from
time to time. And that’s how the
journey began.

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