When Africans both living on and away from the continent said 'Hey, pls pay attention to us as humans not just for your entertainment or romanticized ideas of Africa', this is what we meant.
Go through the #CongoIsBleeding hashtag. https://twitter.com/EstherBirungi4/status/1317346216947142656?s=19
"Part of the reason African leaders get away with atrocities on African soil is because they know the world will turn a blind eye to them... Black lives matter everywhere that black lives are found." - Chibundu Onuzo
Also Google Jimoh Isiaq. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/16/black-lives-matter-everywhere-support-endsars-nigeria
Also Google Jimoh Isiaq. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/16/black-lives-matter-everywhere-support-endsars-nigeria
Go through the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter hashtag, which first appeared on here in July. They're still in crisis. https://twitter.com/advocatemahere/status/1315646043271442434?s=19
Go through the #ShutItAllDown / #ShutItAllDownNamibia hashtags. https://twitter.com/_debayo/status/1314811972542771201?s=19
Go through the #AnglophoneCrisis hashtag. Four years of fighting and counting. https://twitter.com/iguocho/status/1316072735114633218?s=19
Africa is bleeding. If you engage in the cultures, be it the music, food, clothing etc., the least you can do is get familiar with what's happening across the continent and amplify the hashtags.
Read This: In the $100 billion chocolate industry, children from Ivory Coast and Ghana are being taken and forced to work on cocoa plantations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-10-19/child-labor-worsened-on-west-african-cocoa-farms-study-shows?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-10-19/child-labor-worsened-on-west-african-cocoa-farms-study-shows?__twitter_impression=true
If you're looking at how you can help from abroad and where you can put some coins: #EndSARS
https://twitter.com/AntoinetteIsama/status/1318631798000275459?s=20
