Social media has provided new opportunities for Pan-Africans worldwide to communicate, learn, build social and political movements, and curate joint identities. Pan-African Daily TV created and founded by Dr Susan Tatah reveals a huge interest and participation of Africans engaged in the Africa they want to see thus enhancing Pan-African social and political activities online. Pan-African Daily TV’s inclusive Pan-African discourse and lectures from prominent Pan-Africans follower of Pan-African She/ Heros has sparked up a new phenomenon amongst the African communities at home and abroad.
The latest technology – social media has been a push to build and promote a more inclusive and wide-reaching Pan-African movement and their new ideologies, social activity and leadership is pushing Africans to reflect on the Africa they want to see. The recent activities in Kenya and Gen Z reached worldwide audience like never before.
Since the onset of the digital revolution, the internet and other similar media have facilitated the growth of many core pan-African principles by strengthening and increasing connections between people across the diaspora. Although internet penetration rates remain below the world average, a huge percent of the population of Africa uses the internet and social media with Instagram,Tiktok, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube being among the most popular social networking sites. The ability to connect with people thousands of miles away has allowed these platforms to become places where people across the continent and diaspora have attempted to manufacture a collective African identity. Since the event In July 2015, in which a Botswananian satirical writer and speaker Siyanda Mohutsiwa posed a question on her Twitter account that led to the creation of the hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar. After one week, more than 60,000 tweets with the hashtag were created, which allowed users on the platform to grapple with a vision of widespread African interaction throughout the continent. Bridges between the Continent and its diaspora are constantly becoming more and more relevant through a common identity, the new generation Artist and collaborating, organizations connecting, more and more Africans in the Diaspora such as prominent celebrities – viewing Africa as the Mother Continent and birthplace of humankind, Steve Harvey refers to America as his land of Birth and to Africa is his HOME.
The intersection between the digital media revolution and pan-Africanism has also had implications for the education sector. Pan-African organizations have used the internet and digital media to produce educational content for both children and adults in an effort to improve learning outcomes across the continent. Pan-African Daily TV is becoming the most popular with anticipations to becoming a platform and Africa’s largest manufacturer of educational content for both young and old to help Africa’s youth improve literacy outcomes.
