Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:57:48 +0200
Body in Africa, Mind in Europe
By: <http://www.siliconafrica.com/author/admin/> Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
Thursday, July 24th, 2014 at 9:12 am.
I'd forbid CNN, BBC, RFI and all the propaganda medias in Africa. PERIOD.
I'd follow the Singaporian route traced by Lee Kuan Yew. If a media doesn't
have ground operations in Singapore as registered company, with local
journalist, they won't have a licence to broadcast locally, because as he
said journalism is politics continued by other means.
The damage the foreign medias are doing in Africa is worst than the marginal
benefit they supposedly have as information channels.
For example they succeeded to convince a majority of Africans to think bad
about their own leaders like Gbagbo who should be removed from Power. The
same about Mugabe. The same about Kadhafi.
They distort facts. Continue the white supremacy agenda and ultimately
succeed to make African happy about their colonization.
Currently, the so called elite in Africa only listen to those foreign
channels. The african middle class gets 100% of its information from those
propaganda channels.
Like a friend put it "Body in Africa, Mind in Europe" is what now
characterize our people. The foreign medias succeeded to disconnect our
people from their own reality.
Currently, the British government could reach the Nigerian population with
their message or their point of view of Nigerian affairs much more easily
and faster than the Nigerian government could. They can influence the news
agenda in Nigeria more profoundly than the Nigerian government.
The same for the French government. They could reach the populations of 14
african countries (called francophone Africa) with any of their propaganda
message much more easily and faster than the local governments themselves.
They have the channels to influence the news agenda and people perception
much faster than the local authorities.
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