Africa

To make sense of social-media giants Meta, TikTok and YouTube suspending African Stream and other alternative media outlets, Breakthrough News’ Eugene Puryear (@eugenepuryear) and Rania Khalek (@raniakhalek) spoke to Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin (@davidhundeyin). However, at the time of this interview, TikTok had not yet permanently banned African Stream. Hundeyin explained how the bans proves the point African Stream has long maintained: That the US is an imperialist power. With the flick of a finger, 1.5 billion continental Africans and 200 million in the diaspora lost access to a critical source of information that sought to unify people of African descent globally and encourage sovereignty and liberty for the continent. Hundeyin also laid out the historical context behind the seemingly incessant US desire to control the narrative. However, he offered a glimmer of hope as the US is notorious for scoring its own goals. For example, recent US attempts to stifle China’s economic rise have backfired by disrupting the China-US supply chain, increasing operating costs and reducing US companies' competitiveness, according to a recent US Federal Reserve Bank of New York report. Have a watch, and please share your thoughts. Video credit:@BTnewsroomSources:Total African digital TV subscribers of 33 million: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/africa-pay-tv-market-forecasts-100100649.html Multichoice's 22 million subscribers: https://www.ft.com/content/62071de0-e323-4672-8821-eae4f9b9c06e US strategy on China backfiring: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202408/1318138.shtml Information manipulation campaigns: Africa cannot think for itself https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2024)757654 Blinken announcing censorship on African Stream: https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-remarks-to-the-press-29/ Drapetomania https://allthatsinteresting.com/drapetomania Three fifths a man https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-new-jim-crow/quotes Aboriginals regarded as flora and fauna https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/09/07/australia-until-60s-aborigines-came-under-the-flora-and-fauna-act-classified-them-as-animals-not-human-beings/ The Royal Niger Company (RNC) and the Making of Modern Nigeria, https://infinitypress.info/index.php/jsss/article/download/2206/855 Kwame Ture moves to Africa https://hoodcommunist.org/2021/11/18/why-did-kwame-ture-move-to-africa/ FBI trying linkng MLK to the USSR https://www.history.com/news/martin-luther-king-jr-fbi-j-edgar-hoover-communism France24 claims Nkrumah-Soviet links https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230720-soviet-spies-in-africa-how-the-kgb-expanded-russian-influence-during-the-cold-war NYT draws Lumumba Soviet links https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/magazine/the-cia-and-lumumba.html Blacks are happy in South Africa under apartheid https://www.thoughtco.com/quotes-pw-botha-43577 No Problem' With Chinese Involvement in Ghana's Economy https://en.sputniknews.africa/20230525/no-problem-with-chinese-involvement-in-ghanas-economy-president-says-1059476147.html?ysclid=m1kcfulqo1172844295 US plans to hobble others backfire https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/americas-chip-curbs-on-china-appear-to-have-backfired-14914615 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-13/russian-economy-stays-strong-amid-sanctions-ukraine-war-spending US to tighten China chip squeeze with old Cold War rule https://asiatimes.com/2024/08/us-to-tighten-china-chip-squeeze-with-old-cold-war-rule/ China breaks through chip development https://theconversation.com/chinas-chip-industry-is-gaining-momentum-it-could-alter-the-global-economic-and-security-landscape-222958 Meta censorship https://x.com/african_stream/status/1837135639059308802 2023 total African subscribers: 33 million (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/africa-pay-tv-market-forecasts-100100649.html) Multichoice's 22 million subscribers (https://www.ft.com/content/62071de0-e323-4672-8821-eae4f9b9c06e) Canal + ownership of Multichoice https://techcentral.co.za/canal-takes-its-stake-in-multichoice-beyond-30/222030/ Europe upholds RT ban https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/27/european-court-upholds-broadcasting-ban-on-russias-rt Africa refuses to pick a side https://www.vox.com/23156512/russia-ukraine-war-global-south-nonaligned-movement African Stream website http://africanstream.media The effects of neocolonialism on Africa’s development https://journals.ju.edu.et/index.php/panjogov/article/view/4846 Lobito Corridor and its focus on getting African minerals out https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/08/lobito-corridor-us-bet-africas-critical-mineral-development Kenya’s protest expose African fury wih IMF https://www.ft.com/content/0e1be993-90e1-4477-9c29-41400c0d1c98 Youngest continent in the world https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-median-age-of-every-continent/ Internet access in Africa https://www.diplomacy.edu/resource/report-stronger-digital-voices-from-africa/internet-access-connectivity-africa/ US kicked out of Sahel https://www.npr.org/2024/05/19/1252380146/us-troops-leave-niger