Calling All Africa, Let Us United

in #steemit7 years ago

Calling all Africans to come join the community and help us grow and develop together to provide a better future for all Africans on steemit.


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This will be something I do every week to help grow and gather the community. Please comment your username below and where you are from. Also join us on steemit chat (remember to use the same username) if your steemit chat username is different, it will be a lot harder to put you in the channel. If it is different then send me your steemit chat username.

If you are already in the community, please help me by finding others that belong in here and send me their names.

We have 76 users already for week 1, I am aiming to get to 150 by week 2. So far it has grown really fast and I thank all of those who have helped out so far.

All those from Africa please use the #africa tag.

Why are Communities Important?

It is quite simple: alone it is harder to learn and develop, but with the help of others. To illustrate this point: many new users join steemit, whether through a friend or some other means, they have not yet experienced how steemit works. They are told you can post whatever they want? So they do so, sadly they don't know any better and get flagged. Thus their steemit experience is negative and they leave.

Communities are there to help guild and support everyone in it, if this person above was in the community he/she would of easily been able to be lead right, had all their questions answered and would become an asset to the community and steemit.

Communities are a great thing as all those who are in them are different, they have different skills and information they can offer to others. A community that works together is strong and can do anything.

This Community

This community is strictly for any and all steemians that come from Africa. As this is just the start we will need to get all those involved to help find, grow and contribute to this community. I, with some others, will be providing some valuable information and tips for all those new to steemit in the community.

We will be leading and developing this community to make each users experience better. The object is to get as many active users on steemit to better steemit as well as strengthen and support all those who are in the community.

This community will be based on steemit chat (https://steemit.chat) where we will be answering any questions and helping all those inside it with the support they need. We ask you to tell all your friends and anyone you know that is from Africa to join this community and help each other out.

Source: https://steemit.com/steemit/@dragonslayer109/africa-united-community-development

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@tinashe Zimbabwe.
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TIS (This is Steemit), i welcome all africans. Its a great opportunity to unite and also make some bucks ;)

right...are you african too...which country?

Africa unites.. i'm from south africa please add me to the african community.. i use the same username on steemit chat

Sure thing :)

wow...where in south afrca...

Durban

durban js a beautiful city....wanted to visit SA but was a bit scared because of what i saw online how they treat fellow africans...hope all is ok now...

Great initiative! I was only 17 when I travelled 2 weeks to Eritrea and lived with a local family where one of the children my age went to a school that our High-school in Norway was in touch with. I remember thinking that while there is only so much we could do bringing in English dictionaries and materials for biology and math-classes, surely in an age of the internet one could more effectively share knowledge and tools to help different communities.

I'm excited about your efforts, and hope to be able to contribute over steemit if possible :) keep on building!

What steemit could bring to Africa would be a huge blessing for millions.

@fredrikaa, good to see you that you have been in a part of africa before. Your contributions will definitely be a blessing to the group.

Whoo hoo .... @breezin from Limpopo South Africa reporting for duty Captain!

Welcome. I have added you to the channels already unless you have change your name :)

Awesome!!

nice comment @breezin
Howz SA today?

Thank you. Where I live quite peaceful, and warm despite the fact that we are mid winter.

wow...winter in SA just like that of Russia?
which city?
any pics of the city...

I doubt, we do not have snow in the winter, we are close to the equator so our winter days average out at about 25 deg celcius (quite hot huh?)
The closest city to me is about 120kms from where I live.

thanks for the update...will help me plan when to visit

Thats great, I am glad that I could be of some help

This post contains pictures of the area I live in, it will give you an idea of the landscape here by us...

great...thanks for sharing
whats the lowest temperature during winter in your city

My pleasure, the rest of the country can get quite cold, it is only up north that our temperatures are still quite hot during winter

The African Renaissance which we never cease to call with all our wishes should be neither a stake wish nor an empty shell. It is a noble, relevant, even necessary objective in the historical period we are living. Has it not been said somewhere that "African man has not entered history sufficiently"? Should we invalidate or confirm this assertion? Kwame Nkrumah, Sheikh Anta Diop, Nelson Mandela, and closer to us Thabo Mbeki, and others have not called for a burst of "African regeneration"? It is the same for Joseph Ki Zerbo and the various researchers and activists of the Pan-African cause who necessarily pose as a prerequisite the African Renaissance.
But does the photographic snapshot of the moment, the general situation of Africa, militate in favor of this noble ideal?
It is true that it may seem redundant, even tiresome, even useless to continue to dwell on the need for Africans to take - finally - body-fasten their own destiny, like all the nations of the world. But we must sacrifice to tradition and give our point of view on the question, however modest it may be. In any case, would our conscience allow us to fail in our duty
Upvoted & Followed

Thank you for your words, they got me thinking :)

Africa unites us.

Nice idea @dragonslayer10, If I were from Africa, I will not waste this opportunity....

#Africa
@kenhuoy loving this message and will hook up all others...
more info is needed @dragonslayer am a long time follower since i joined some weeks back never knew you are from Mama Africa! Which country and city?

reach also @hyney and @mcekworo

Africa is awesome im joining in bro! :)

good post @dragonslayer109
come to my steemit blog , and dont forget to follow back

That would be great. Where are you from?

What's up dude, I'm from South-Africa. Here's a list of South-Africans that my buddy over at @dse put together https://steemit.com/steemit/@dse/full-update-finally

Thank you I will go through it :)

great...will check the list out too

@dragonslayer109 This is so true mate.. Africa has so much greatness hidden in it. Lets make African great again.
@kayceesuave

lovely comment...where you from?

From Nigeria mate, wbu?

Nija 4lfe;)
oya...make we dey support one another...

I am joining the club :-) let us united :-)

Community make us strong to stand

Mama Africa ))

Hello Africa Tell me how you doing; hello motherland tell me how you doing!

bros...na only you dey ride this horse?
that same sung dey sweet me wella ;)

hahahahahaha!......you too gbasky padi me

yes ohh...you just sound like Omo ekoo but your pic they show Omo london...;)
Nija for life!

😆😆😆😊😊

Omo London ke, i be from Mushin😎 ni isale eko...

ahhh...mushin...real omo nile!
what do you blog on?

.....I love to write Fantasies,my thoughts and Random Adventures with some Techs....

Great post, upvoted, please read my Introductory post today, thank you...

All africa countries must come together as one to achieve great goal,united we stand divided we fall()

im from north africa I hope all the world will get united and all wars will stop =)

Same dreams. Same. Good people just need to outdo the bad ones. Where in North Africa? I'm down south in Nigeria. Let's rapport some more.

IIm from tunisia =) nice to meet u

Please join steemit chat and send me your username so I can add you to the community.

where I can find steemit chat ?

Great initiative, am Augustine from Croas river Nigeria and it's gladden my heart to see Africans uniting. Thanks for this @dragonslayer109

bros...nice one...which area in cross river?

Yala LGA but i spend more time at calabar

great...my junior sister works at FGC Ikom
I stay in Lagos...but in UNN now rounding up my PG studies

Wow!! That great, i schooled in the east too. Did my Bsc in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka just a stone throw from Unn. Great to meet you here Ken

yeah there...great to meet you also...
do follow me and read up my posts too....lets support one another

Already done that bro,

Join Steemit Upvote Exchange Group http://www.doze.io

You are doing an amazing effort to bring this community together @dragonslayer109! I'm already in and looking forward to constructive workshop there to better improve ourselves!
I just made a post on my country, hope you get some time to check it out and give your feedback!
Cheers
@progressivechef

I will check it out :)

Thank you mate! You are doing a great job for the community!
Cheers

which country...nice comment...;)

It's Mauritius @kenhudoy! Do check it out, beautiful place indeed!
Thanks for your comment
@progressivechef

Mauritius
My honey moon country of choice..wanna do my Honey moon there...hope to keep in touch always...

Book your ticket soon @kenhudoy! And check out the post i made on Mauritius, you will love it and can plan too in advance!
Cheers
@progressivechef

will do...and will keep me updated on more of your posts
do also follow me and get my new post coming up soon!
regards

A very good post very good achievement greetings from me @ abupasi.alachy

Unity is one thing that is attainable with like minds. Africa is a continent filled with diverse cultures and values that have similarities but one thing is leaders are filled with so much greed that they think about themselves and not their people. If the leadership is right then the followers will live right. Take for instance a country led by a corrupt man who is so old and frail and the youths look up to such a man for hopes and in turn decides to follow in his steps when they get such an opportunity to lead and the cycle continues. The solution lies in our thinking as africans, we need to change it. Proudly African.

i feel you bros...i know which country you referring;)
nice comment

There is progress in unity. Thank you, @dragonslayer109

Please add me to every community African. Username @misterakpan, from Nigeria

Sure thing, welcome to the community :)

this is a great call. thanks for this post @draginslayer109

yeah...great cal indeed...are you african too?

Are South Africans living abroad also welcome? 😊 I put lots of my South African photography on my blog.

I don't think there should be any barriers. You are an African after all 😊. I'll check out your photography 😉

Thanks. Do you have a steemit- chat room?

No. I don't. I actually wish to be a part of as many as is possible. I'm in

Good day. If you come from Africa then I will add you.

Hi dragonslayer109 I spent my first 40 years in Cape Town and left for Ireland in 2007. I still regard myself as South African. In steemit chat I go under @readallaboutit where I post my South African, Ireland and Malta photography. Where about are you on steemit chat?

I have added you to the channels :) Welcome to the community

wow...means you from south africa for real...
nice comment..which area do you blog..

wow...south african photos...can i view the blog posts...nice comment

@dragonslayer109, you are doing marvelously well for the growth of the African community.

Keep it up. 👍

my username is thesame, @turpsy, Nigerian. I will be happy to be added to the steemit chat. great work @dragonslayer109

wow..bros...which are for nija

Good luck to all African Steemians from your fellow Steemian from Pakistan.

@gunn3rfourlif3 Hi, I am from Johannesburg, South Africa. Please add me.

jburg...beautiful city

Yes it is. Where are you from?

Live in lagos...nice to meet you...
which area do you blog?

thanks for this post, i am from africa my name @lenouarhakim or @hakim i need your hrlp :)

güzel makale lütfen beni takip et

Well done @dragonslayer, the African community is the Ultimate. In one Africa we remain stronger. Good job!

It keep on being amazed what some people are doing on steemit - well done

It seems we have more people from Africa than I ever could imagine we really need to make a point if ading it to our blogs for I will never remember them all LOL.

Africa Unite!! With love from Nigeria