i think this is many people’s question, including my own. especially as calls for consumer boycotts come out. no matter how much or little americans use, the relationship of the capitalist to Africa will be that of colonizers and slavers. what changes that but revolution?

and it’s not like it started with phones! there was rubber under the belgians that fuled the auto industry. before that it was LITERALLY MY ANCESTORS. colonial powers do not have a nation to nation relationship with many African nations. it’s nation to colonial subject.

i don’t upgrade my tech often, though i think strengthening right to repair laws, and creating universal, frequently updated software would help that project. as long as colonial power can extract so much out of resource rich nations while impoverishing them it only does so much

many of these artisanal mines are mislabeled as industrial. it’s “illegal” to use the cobalt people are digging out. but even if the mines were industrial, would big tech pay a fair wage? would it allow the people of DRC to become rich?

@kitoko_oyo @FocusCongo_DRC @CongoleseYoung @ShopZapenda @PanziUSA her tiktok tag is @therealmamaafrika

@cyreejarelle @kitoko_oyo @FocusCongo_DRC @CongoleseYoung @ShopZapenda @PanziUSA you rock for this, ty