"I showspeed" shocks America: How did Africa get here?
Nairobi Expressway: With the City CBD in the background e When the American You Tuber, Ishowspeed, visited Africa last Month, live streaming his stunts, Americans were shocked. To them, Ishowspeed had demolished the narrative of an underdeveloped, poverty- stricken Africa. The African story previously was a story of destitution, of people living in hovels, no water, no electricity, no cities, and no cars... blah blah! “Africa is a shithole continent,” Trump said. The Live streams of expressways, high-rise buildings, modern cars, happy, healthy, and energetic people, shocked Americans, -and destroyed the narrative. I hear the live streams have stirred interest on the continent, and tourism enquiries are rising. I leave that to tourist- arrivals data at the end of the year. My point here is to answer the question: How did we get here? It’s a combination of factors, to wit: Geopolitics, the digital revolution, the emergence of China as the second-largest power hou...