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How young Africans found a voice on Twitter

A young girl called Siyanda Mohutsiwa explains that she has created a hashtag #IfAfricaWasaBar to promote social empathy among ordinary Africans and unity across the continent using social media such as twitter to overcome borders and circumstance.This idea have become successful because  africans for all the continent began to participate with comments about issues from Africa. Access to the internet have given Africans place for making connections over their Africanness.

Siyanda Mohutsiwa explains how you acquire a different identity according to the place you belong in Africa and there are some resctrictions of borders it means that African do not know much of other countries in Africa. She states that Africans share problems but not the successes so she wants to foster Pan- Africaninsm which means to think collaboratively and support among africans.Besides, access to online networks has given young Africans something they have long had violently take: a voice so africans can take advantage of this tool to be heard.

Personally, I believe that Siyanda Mohutsiwa hashtag is an amazing idea that make a country more united about issues that concern the ordinary people of different place but that belong to the same place.