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Africa Is Online and They're Angry and Ungrateful

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Johannes M. Koenraadt
Apr 04, 2024
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Connected and angry, African youth groups push for democracy | Reuters

Colonialism taught a majority of black Africans to speak some form of European language (French, English, Dutch/Afrikaans, Portuguese, and so on). Thanks to this legacy, many black Africans are now mixing with the Western crowds online, on their smartphones—much unlike East Asians or Middle Easterners who don’t speak Western languages.

The Africans are angry and ungrateful because they are constantly comparing their own lack of advancement to Western achievements. Judging from the endless stream of comments I get from Africans on my new TikTok channel, colonialism has made Africans feel mentally ill. But they have no means to compensate for their delusions of grandiosity other than by lying about European achievements.

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