President Yoweri Museveni has rallied young African content creators who use social media and other online platforms to tell African stories and showcase the continent’s resources, opportunities, cultures and potential.
Mr Museveni said this after meeting a group of young African content creators at State House Entebbe on Thursday. ”I first took interest in their work during the recent Russia-Africa Summit, and invited them to come here,” Mr Museveni said on social media platform X.
He explained that he took the youth through the five historical missions of Africa, which include liberation, democracy, economic prosperity, strategic security and African unity.
”I took them through the Five Historical Missions of Africa: liberation, democracy, economic prosperity, strategic security and African unity.” He said.
Mr Museveni noted that social media and other online platforms can be used to promote Africa’s potential and the spirit of Pan-Africanism.
”I encouraged them to continue using their voices and platforms to tell the African story and promote the interests of our people,” Mr Museveni explained.
The content creators were drawn from Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania.
On September 25, Mr Museveni said on X that the young people must understand and support reasons for the economic integration of Africa in the form of a common market and for the political integration of East Africa.
He noted that leading into the Political Federation of East Africa and possibly for other zones that are compatible guarantee Africa’s prosperity by creating a big and reliable market for the wealth creators of Africa to sell their products and services and expand, while the regional federations guarantee strategic security by enabling Africans to defend themselves on land, in the air, at sea and in space.
He announced that, ”I am ready to debate this with the youth and all those interested in social media.”