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CommunityWWW.MSINGIAFRIKAMAGAZINE.COM | we tell the true afrikan story 40The internet is loaded with African content creators creating content around the concept of %u201cdecolonization of the African mind%u201d. Much of what they say sometimes just sounds like people trying very hard to sound intelligent and convincing, but lacking real depth or even personal conviction of what they are talking about. It%u2019s interesting, though, that much of such content creators try to tell their side of the story of why Africa is where it is right now through blaming colonialism and the after-effects of colonialism. They talk about how Africans don%u2019t do what is needed for the growth of the continent because their minds have been programmed by the effects of colonialism, and thus they need their minds decolonized. Some even claim that the problem with Africa is religion and the so-called brainwashing of Africans by religion and foreign religious principles. (They mostly point their fingers at Christianity and Islam). I find that very strange, though, because most of them who make these claims about religion love to spend their holidays in Dubai, which is a Muslim nation and built by Muslims.They love to pose for selfies beside the fine cars and the beautiful architecture in Dubai. And when an accident happens or when they find themselves in a very precarious lifeand-death situation, they don%u2019t remember the names of their African ancestors, they call the name Jesus. I find such hypocrisy interesting. WWW.MSINGIAFRIKAMAGAZINE.COM | we tell the true afrikan story 40Changing the African perceptionBy Samuel Phillips