Africans are not Puppets

Why are Africans deemed incapable of forming their own political opinions without external influence? That’s the question our sister Adiaha Young asks in this video clip, in response to the US assault against our channel with the false claim of being 'Kremlin propagandists.' Following the baseless allegation by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 13th September, African Stream has been banned from platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

Young highlights that, for a long time, the West has portrayed Africans as lacking the intellectual capacity to form and own independent political opinions. Whenever they’ve stood up against imperialism, the West claimed that there was a ‘foreign master' pulling the strings behind the curtain. When citizens of countries such as Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique rose up to fight against racist settler-colonial regimes, they were quickly labelled agents of 'Soviet Communism' and not citizens who were genuinely fighting for their freedom.

Decades later, the West is still using the same tactics.

Video credit: @AdiahaYoung (Instagram)

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