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French is still a colonial language in a lot of countries like DRC, RDC, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Benin, and Senegal but even then all of these countries have their own native languages that have nothing to do with French. The difference between countries like Ivory Coast, DRC, and Benin and countries like Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Martinique is that our countries aren’t strongly influenced by France nor French, and we still have our own native languages. Most Francophone countries aren’t even fluent in French, and other countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have abandoned French.

I got BANNED when I posted it at r Africa so I posted at here

I constantly think about it, if we would ever witness a pan African states in our lifetime.

Imo those states would be the perfect place for a pan African state:

• Senegal

• Gambia

• Ivory Coast

• Ghana

• Gabon

Honorable Mention :

• Equatorial Guinea

• Sao Tomé

• Madagascar

Hellow My Ppl

I have come across a tendency of we as Africans (both citizens & ruling elites) instead of accepting criticisms for how Africa remains the World's Poorest region, we find a bogey man to explain why we are poor & always stuck in victim hood mentality

When are we going to graduate from Bogey Man, Victim hood mentality & start taking accountability for our dear Africa ? Other parts of the world that have experienced it worse than us are progressing steadily while we are busy stuck in the past instead of focusing on changing the future

Let me get this clear i know Africa is huge i think it’s bigger than Asia so some parts will be poverty and some will be like any other western/east asian country but i see videos on my feed of “the real Africa they don’t show you” and it’s mostly clips of the city and i know that’s disingenuous so i want to know if life in Africa is as bad as western media portray it or is life similar to any western/east asian country

Very curious because I know how pk culture is. I tried looking online but it must be very rare to see this mix given I’ve found nothing on it. I was also wondering how the babies turn out lmao but that’s a separate point if anyone is willing to share. Thanks guys 🙏🏼 ps im a girl asking in terms of myself :)

Idk what narrative the mods of this subreddit want to push. But foreign Aid doesn't help the African people in the long run and was never designed to help Africans.

I even asked my fellow Africans what they thought of this and the post wasn't even done in bad faith. This is insane.

Foreign Aid creates a dependancy mindset in the countries and people receiving the aid.

If your constantly given food again and again it removes the urge to farm and make your own food to feed the population.

If your donated medicine again and again it removes the urge to invest more in research facilities to develop your own medicine

If your donated clothes again and again it removes the urge to make your own retail centered economy

A lot of Foreign aid is also given to Africa and Africans forcefully to stop Africans from developing their own things , and keep them dependent and begging. Like when Rwanda in 2018 wanted to ban Donated clothes to develop its own textile and manufacturing The US retaliated through trade.

It also Creates hidden agendas and undisclosed expectations from the nation giving the aid. It's harder for nations to refuse to give a favor from a country which has been giving them aid for years even if it's against it's interests because they are too dependent.

What do you fellow Africans think about Foreign Aid?

For example, in TZ we have a lot of Indians and Arabs, with Arabs being our colonisers; however, we see them all as Tanzanian, there is no distinction. It's to the point I was shocked when my Indian friend who emigrated here at a young age didn't know Kiswahili at all since it's so common to have Swahili-speaking Indians and Arabs. I know in ZA it's the same with the Afrikaaners being African but what about other places (if you're from ZA still comment below!)?

I was reading online about South Africa because I don't know much about it and was really curious about learning the cultural differences between Zulu, Xhosa, etc. It also made me wonder if people belonging to those groups identify more with their ethnic group or with the country they're a citizen of (South Africa).

I felt like asking about this more broadly to people who live across the African continent. Do you identify more with the country you're a citizen of, or with a specific ethnolinguistic group you belong to?

It's been expressed her, MANY MANY times but every time I ask my friends about their home lives, it's always a drama. From parent's saying horrendous things over the simplest of mistakes to us watching our parent's marriages fall apart, to realizing we can't even open up to our parents because they're just emotionally stunted.

I remember in college, there was a WHOLE dormitory of boy's in a huge building and we were hanging out and most of them told me that they didn't have a dad growing up, I was shocked and one of them told me "This is Botswana, who has father's in the home". I looked at the statistics here and it's bad. I see fellow Africans complain about "African parents", I know our parents and grandparents were alive when many of our countries were still colonies, heck I'm Shona on my dad's side and ive heard horror stories but damn.

Will these trauma's pass onto us and will we (African Gen Z) continue the cycle?

Hi, Im from Perú and i want to learn about African history but i dont know how to start.

Parents never take accountability and say sorry.
I had a fight with Kenyan coworker who is not raised in Norway like I am. I’m African diaspora myself.
He did something wrong, I confronted him through messages. He ignored me, then I had to threaten to involve third party (bosses) then he suddenly called and was being very defensive and minimized what he did to me. Turned himself into the victim by saying I was threading him by telling the bosses if he dosent pick up the phone and answer me.

I had to come up with solution to our problem. It was basic communication skills we learned in 5th grade.

I see this fucking pattern everywhere when it comes to African diaspora and household. Parents are usually emotionally stunted.

Can be a politician, military leader, revolutionary, social justice activist etc. which one do you personally find the most inspiring or had an impact on your society or region?