All African Stream pages on Meta platforms have now been taken down on the instruction of the American State Department. That includes Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp.

We are now at a crucial inflection point in modern African history where once again, white men are showing up attempting to physically wield direct colonial power over African people, after decades of wielding a more indirect neo-colonial influence.

Once again - as it was in 1930 - the accusation being used to justify the direct colonial excursion into African political discourse and everyday life in 2024 is "wE aRe fIghTinG ThE rUsSIanS."

The inevitable Twitter ban can honestly not come soon enough, so that the Empire will effectively motivate a critical mass of young Africans - myself included - to abandon centralised platforms based in the US and embrace decentralised platforms like Nostr, which we all know are the future.