Like in the US we have like “the Karen” (who is a mean often somewhat prosperous suburban lady), or like the metalhead (I am pretty sure metalheads are universal at this point), the suburban home depot dad (he wears cargo shorts and is obsessed with barbecue and his lawn), or like the sort of vaguely artsy new age crystal lady who wears like… purple shawls. They’re sort of stock characters, but also will tend to resemble many actual people you might meet. I’m less interested in mean spirited ones and more in like “oh yeah that type of guy!” Where it’s mostly affectionate and sometimes people use it as a self description

I’m Haitian and believe that with the rise of fascism and white supremacy across the world, now more than ever black people need to unite as one black family and struggle against western capitalist exploitation and racism.

However, I feel as if most Africans don’t feel the same way. When reading threads about this, the common opinion was that most people in Africa don’t think about their race much but rather their tribe or nation. The recent pogrom of black immigrants in South Africa while letting the white exploiters remain seems to back this up. Is this is an accurate reading? Do most Africans want black unity? Do you?

Rice is pretty much used everywhere in some way, just wondering what yalls favorite dishes with rice are

For me it's thiebou yapp

I ask because I hear French is very common in some African countries, but I also want interaction from Africans in general and whatever their culture's like. For example, I hear that if I travel to somewhere like Morocco, I probably won't have any problems making friends without knowing Arabic.

I see a lot of these One country pan africanists and wonder

I myself do not support Panafricanism or one Africa cause of the many problems it has like how we are supposed to accept Africans who ILLEGALLY immigrate to other nations instead of bothering to fight the open corruption in their own homes.

An African can be a Foreigner in a another Nation as before colonialism they where different Tribes and Identities. And also Even before colonialism Way before like in the 1600s they were no borders so an argument could be Why can't we Go anywhere we wanna go? Because they used to be no borders worldwide at some point and we are all Humans regardless of race.

See how far you can take that argument. Though I Do Not support how South Africans did to illegal immigrants. I see it as a Government failure to protect their own borders and being lenient in the name of Panafricanism.

Similar things have happened in Ghana and Senegal where Anti illegal immigrants protests have happened.

Apart from immigration let's look at development most African nations struggle to do anything other than Export natural resources. From what I see most of the one unity African wealth would be from natural resources, is that really wealth to be proud of? When a single Nation like Singapore with no natural resources produces more annually than the whole of Africa per Capita. Let's not talk about China.

Where Singapore has more gold reserves than countries like Ghana when Ghana is full of Gold.

Long story short

African Countries should try make their citizens behave and produce more to earn their wealth before they can even dream of becoming one. Because it would be a bigger nation with the same nonsense and more disputes.

One thing that frustrates me about development in Africa is that we often know exactly what the problem is, but the solution still comes from somewhere else.

We have intelligent people, universities, entrepreneurs and local communities that understand these problems firsthand.

Is the bigger problem lack of resources, poor institutions, or simply failure to trust and invest in local ideas?

I don't understand. If you're making the mental calculus to move to another country why would you choose China, Korea, Japan etc?

North America is better for English-speaking Africans because you can make far, far more money in your chosen field and there are institutional protections put in place to protect you from discrimination.

These protections don't exist in Asia

So why are so many Africans still deciding to study and work in places like China? Discrimination is so well known that African english teachers expect to be paid less than their white peers.

Which developed countries are there in Africa? Just curious.

Since I started to watch more African national teams ar the Afcon, World Cup or even during the Qualifiers for both tournaments, I noticed that except for South Africa, most top sub saharan countries national teams in football have very few players from their local leagues, and also discovered that most of their players are dual-citizenship or only did their youth careers at local academies in Africa such as Right to Dream or Samuel Eto'o Academy. So, why this happens? Are the local leagues and teams from Senegal, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon etc that weak nowadays??

Don't drag me y'all I'm asking in good faith please hey

Like my parents retired and wants to move to the village

Like my parents moved from the village to the city for work and wanna move back like don't y'all wanna up yourself in life?

I understand that it's the conservative mindset and we all don't want the same thing but I feel like it's worse rather more in Africa

We had or have resources that build great industrialisations across the globe but we don't want the same for ourselves

Like our new roads barely last a month

May I ask where does this mindset come from

Why does it seems like a country with a certain group or people do well

I understand before colonialism we had thriving communities but why is it not happening now

I hope I don't comments to decolonise my mind but is wanting good for my people a colonised mind?

Let me know with sources if you have any please and thank

Apologies I really don't mean anything in a bad way but wanna know more

I have always wanted to ask this question. I know there are a lot more important issues in African countries than this but… why have a majority of African countries kept the official language of those who colonised them after all this time? I would understand if by the time they got independence a majority of people were already speaking this language but this doesn’t seem to be the case for the most part. I also understand the idea of picking a different language as to not favor any specific tribes or people but to pick one that isn’t even from your country seems so sad. Does anyone want this to change for their country?
Questions: Why have a majority of African countries kept the official language of those who colonised them to present day? Does anyone want this to change for their country?

Did non African black people make fun of your origin when you moved to the west? I've had some very bad experiences growing up which has made me very prejudiced against African Americans in particular to put it mildly.

A superstate spanning from Ivory Coast to Nigeria including Ghana Togo and Benin. How do you feel about this happening? I feel this is more likely to happen as populations grow, infrastructure links begin to be built and the sahel states self aborted from ECOWAS (thankfully).

Thinking back to the colonialist period and various independence leaders trying to overthrow colonial powers, be it French, English, Spanish, German, Belgian, Italian, Portuguese? Are there any leaders from that period who are currently respected on a broader pan-African level? For example, Familiar Cabral from Guinea-Bissau, Kwame Nkrumah from Ghana, Patrice Lumumba from Democratic Republic of Congo, Thomas Sankara from Burkina Faso, Samora Machel from Mozambique? Or did the period following independence erode their standing on a pan-African level?

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.

Right now people in the US near me really like knitting and crocheting. Weaving and spinning are less popular because the equipment is larger and more expensive. You also don’t see as many people whittling as you used to but I’m not sure why. Candle making has a real boom awhile ago but that seems to have settled down. What about where you are?

since I grew up around Somalis, I heard horror stories of them being threatened with being sent back to Somalia but rightfully so since some of my friends had black Air Force energy and were on a dark path. but even as a non somali, .your parents brought themselves from heck to parent a child here. if you were consistentently getting into trouble or put out, did or does actually following through with the one way ticket actually fix that?

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

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

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

I notice the chart it shows below high unemployment. Why is unemployment so high in those countries? And I’m surprised why South Africa it is so high there.

South Africa
33.2%

Republic of the Congo
19.7%

Botswana
23%

Namibia
19%

Angola
14%

Somalia
18.9%

Gabon
20%

Libya
18.7%

Algeria
11.5%

Mauritania
10%

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/unemployment-by-country

Is there a lack of manufacturing in those countries?

Those countries don’t have the infrastructure for manufacturing?