DAVID HUNDEYIN EXPLAINS U.S. ATTACK ON AFRICAN STREAM

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