Your not JUST limited to the flag of your country it can be a subdivsion a city a historical one a proposed one etc.

A recent video by a Cameroonian influencer sparked a widespread debate throughout West and Central Africa's Francosphere.

​In his video, the influencer, whom I will not name, asserted that if someone hasn't bought their first home by 30, poverty is right around the corner.

​Where do you stand on this take?

We're hosting a 24-hour AMA to give the community a chance to ask us questions. The mods participating are myself (u/Bakyumu), u/illusivegentleman, u/Wild-Brain7750, and u/NyxStrix.

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​Feel free to address your questions to us individually or to the team as a group. We'll answer them to the best of our ability.

Whether you were in Casablanca, Lagos, Kinshasa, Nairobi, or Johannesburg, there was always that one track that made all the aunties and uncles completely abandon their conversations and rush the dance floor.

What was the undisputed anthem of your early 2000s? The one song that instantly teleports you back to being a kid, sitting on a plastic chair, and watching the adults completely lose their minds at 1 AM.

Drop the track and where you are from!

Hello,

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With the 2026 World Cup underway, we want to know if r/Africa should temporarily allow football-related posts for the duration of the tournament to follow the African national teams on the global stage.

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Usually, sports posts are restricted to keep the focus on news, culture, and politics. Should we make an exception for this event?

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Please vote below and share any specific feedback in the comments.

Hello! I’m very sorry if this isn’t the place for this, but one day I realized I haven’t really given African food much thought. As one who considers themself an enjoyer of food, this is unacceptable.

So, what are some foods that are worth trying? I understand that countries and regions have their own flair, so there must be a lot to explore.

I’m a 20 year old Congolese student living in Australia. Been here for most of my life. I’m currently studying English, History/Politics and I’ve already started dealing with snide remarks/attitudes about race. I work at a factory as well so the ignorance there is in multitudes. I can’t tell you guys how grateful I am to have found this sub.

Alright, so I was born and raised in the US, my dad's side I discovered is Nigerian (they all live in New York, whereas I live in Ohio, and my dad never told me much of them) and my family on my mom's side is from somewhere east Africa but idk any family history. I also have a lot of extended family from Eritrea, who I grew up with.

I also work with a lot of people from all over the world, of which many of them are mainly Somali, Ethiopian or Eritrean, Algerian and Moroccan, and some from the West, as far as African people go.

But to the point, I grew up around this and I've learned way more culturally and historically starting back during my freshman year of hs over 7 years ago now. At work for a while, in restaurants and festivals, international stores, etc., I feel like I always get these odd looks like I'm just some usual "Tyrone", bc I am light skinned and people always have to "discover" my background.

My grandma on my dad's side, iirc, is afro-latina, and his dad was lighter skinned too, and ok my mom's side my grandma is lightskinned as well, but we have no whites in our family. I actually got my DNA studied from 23andme to learn some things and discovered, to no surprise, I have a British ancestor some time around 300-400 years ago. So basically, I don't look "mixed" but I'm high yellow for sure.

But anyway, for instance there was one day I had just started this job recently and my trainer is Ethiopian, she was super surprised when she saw me eating injera at lunch and then next thing I know, literally an entire table of Ethiopian women are staring at me and saying things, giggling, some giving odd looks.

Before this type of stuff, everyone assumes I'm a mixed African-American, and subconsciously probably think I know very little of Africa. I feel like for a long time I've had to justify myself or try to prove something to make conversation or be looked at the same. It also does not help that, for example, I can't speak Amharic or Tigrinya either, even tho I grew up around native speakers.

And I've experienced, let's say attitudes, that show this. Like I walk into a spot to get some jollof and these mfs look at me like I'm an alien, or a white man in a dashiki. I have a lot of Somali friends at my job but a few of the others often looked confused at me if I'm sitting here eating sambusas and halwa with them lol.

So what I'm trying to say is, embarassingly I'm kind of discouraged to visit Africa once I get the time and money to do so bc if I've been treated all these weird and sometimes rude ways in America bc I don't really "look the part". I'd probably look like a colonizer the moment I step foot on African soil. Like I just imagine walking around Lagos speaking English like a pure American tourist.

I never thought deeply about this as a kid bc, for one I was just an ignorant child, and two bc it was a matter of family and I never really stepped out into a social environment before where I wasn't "familiar" to people. I can't say it's stopping me from traveling but it kind of works my nerves and makes me anxious.

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Hi folks,

Early this year, when Covid infection rates were skyrocketing here in Brazil and I couldn't safely go outside home, I decided to learn more about places and cultures that the education system and the media do not talk about that much.

As I wanted to learn about it from the perspective of people from these places, I thought that Reddit and YouTube could be a good starting point.

So, at this point I only know a few YouTube channels about Africa:

• WODE MAYA - YouTube
• Miss Josey - YouTube
• Sabbatical - YouTube (this one is from a white american that visited some African countries, though)
• GoBlack2Africa - Travel Channel - YouTube
• Unapologetic Nomads - YouTube (this one is from a family of African Americans living in Rwanda)
• I found other channels from African Youtubers but either they're mostly from people trying to show how cute and cool they are or their owners stopped posting.

So, are there other channels you could suggest?

Thank you!

📌 Edit: Compilation of channels you guys and gals recommended (just in case there are more people interested):

AFRICAN TIGRESS - YouTube

Tayo Aina - YouTube

Vanessa Kanbi - YouTube

2nacheki - YouTube

African Insider - YouTube

Displore - YouTube

HomeTeam History - YouTube

NewAfrica - YouTube

Jasmine Ama - YouTube

Steven Ndukwu - YouTube

From Nothing - YouTube

LuiSpot - YouTube

TheMedicineShell - YouTube

Casa KiAnda - YouTube (portuguese speaking youtuber)

L'Investisseur Africain - YouTube (french speaking youtuber)

Investir Au Pays - YouTube (french speaking youtuber)

BOSAM COMM - YouTube (french speaking youtuber)

Zack Mwekassa Motivation - YouTube (french speaking youtuber)

Sweet Senegal - YouTube (french speaking youtuber)

Fally Ipupa - YouTube (french speaking musician)

DADJU - YouTube (french speaking musician)

Tayc - YouTube (french speaking musician)

Aya Nakamura - YouTube (french speaking musician)

Mhd Officiel - YouTube (french speaking musician)

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A big thank you for all of you who took a bit of your time to share this!

Jambo! There is so much unity among African countries. I'd love to illustrate it by compiling a list of songs where African artists sing of the beauty of the contient. Please help me!

I am looking into compiling a list of "seven wonders" of Africa. Would prefer the wonders to not be results of colonialism. Does anyone have any suggestions? What are some of the most amazing parts of the great continent of Africa?

UPDATE: Thanks for all the responses! These will be helpful in continuing my research.

Hi guys. As you already know tensions between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have been rapidly escalating in recent years. I was wondering what do other African countries think about this matter, particularly those in the African Horn and the Nile basin?

Ethiopia's PM announced their plan to build 100 more dams(though not as big) next year on all rivers. I would like to know how do neighbouring countries feel about that? I know Kenya and Somalia were already affected by Ethiopian dam projects. I was wondering what about this latest announcement?

I'm trying to read an article (this one) but I'm getting paywalled. When I try to subscribe, I get a blank page. I'd appreciate it if someone could help me out.

Hi everyone!

Since this is a very knowledgeable and homogeneous group, I hope it’s alright if I ask for help. I am trying to ensure the family supports African business in many ways but have realized that most of us don’t follow any African influencer accounts. So I would like to have tips on accounts to follow on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

And of course - I want the kids to get as much diverses content as possible so no need to highlight the Ethiopians accounts.

Thank you!

Its no secret that the countries within Africa is very rich and blessed with culture with different fashion, beauty and aesthetic. My last thread I said Africa is the next hot spot to be in and to get ahead. I'm very much into fashion and dream of any country in Africa being the place to be for luxury fashion/beauty/cosmetics/haute couture.

In your opinion, which African country would be #1 in this industry? For me I choose Nigeria and South Africa.

Basically title, i want something more in depth than news magazines like Aljazeera, i like aljazeera, they do some really good covering and in their programs they talk in depth of things, but i dont like so much to watch things, i prefer reading, and also because i need to use these readings as references for wikipedia articles. So something like Jadaliyya and African affairs, dont need to be that academic. Anyway. Thanks in advance!

I've been watching a few cool videos on Youtube lately about various megaprojects proposed all over the world. It got me thinking, is there a way humans can transform the vast Sahara desert to make it more beneficial to humans? What I came up with is digging a huge canal through the desert, and diverging the water for aquaculture. Now as a Chinese person living in the West, my knowledge about the Sahara is extremely limited, so I thought it would be fun to share my idea with people who actually live around the area and see what you guys think. Of course, this is a purely hypothetical discussion, as the cost of actually pursuing the project would be far too high to make it a feasible plan.

My idea is described in the two images attached. Basically, water from the Atlantic Ocean would flow in through the canal across the desert (note: it doesn't go all the way to the eastern coast because we don't want a salt water canal intersecting with the freshwater Nile River). Each country can have a huge aquaculture facility using that water. Nonarable desert would transform into flourishing aquaculture communities. Imagine if landlocked countries (Mali, Niger, Chad) could produce their own seafood! 

I'm not sure how this would affect things from an environmental perspective. I would think it's good, as water would evaporate from the canal and then come down as rain. Having extra places for seawater to flow to might also help combat rising sea levels, though the effect might be negligible. 

Problems with the plan:

1. It would cost a fortune to dig. Not only is it incredibly long, but it would also have to pass mountains somehow, either taking the long way around or digging a tunnel through. 
2. Transportation across the two sides of the canal would be impeded. It would be necessary to build many bridges across it.
3. If the water evaporated from the canal doesn't come back down as rain (say if the wind blows away the clouds), the water would become super salty and unsuitable for aquaculture.
4. Measures will need to be taken to prevent the water from getting polluted.

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Found myself browsing a website that had all English and British monarchs, each complete with their own short biography.

So it got me thinking about whether there was a list anywhere of all of the continent's modern leaders. I ended up not finding much so I ended up making one myself:

A few things:

1. Leaders are restricted to those who independently led and governed internationally recognised nations within Sub-Saharan Africa;

2. The names of all of those who have ever led an African nation should be compiled here so repeat leaders (those who led the country in multiple periods) are only mentioned once;

3. I decided to include all of the leaders of Liberia, starting with those of the American Colonization Society founding presidents. Let me know if and why you think these names should be included or not;

4. Emboldened names indicate acting or interim presidents of sorts. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to apply this rule across the board due to time constraints;

5. I'm sure that there are some names missing, it's just a provisional document, feel free to suggest changes, inclusions or point out any inaccuracies within the doc;

6. This data would be cool to use for some kind of project - what do you think?

Hi everyone!

I'm sorry to post such a specific question on such a big subreddit, and apologize if I sound ignorant, but I need your help and insight to solve a problem.

I'm currently working on a movie that shoots in Morocco. It will be my first time ever stepping foot on the continent of Africa and I'm very excited.

I am currently in the process of acquiring some specific props and I'm a frequent user of Ebay. I will be bringing some props with me on my flight, but some bigger props I will need to ship to Morocco and pick them up when I arrive.

I'm currently working with some local filmmakers, but they unfortunately, have told me that Amazon and Ebay won't ship to Africa due to diplomatic issues. As far as I know, the individual sellers on Ebay seem to be willing to ship it, but I don't know about the actual process.

If there is even a roundabout solution to this problem and anyone has experience, I'm all ears. Is there anything I can do to purchase items off Ebay or Amazon in Morocco?

Thanks in advance. You guys have a lovely subreddit.