You know, when Africans listen to Tupac, Eminem & see Dennis Rodman... they think that these people are beyond any social restrictions. Singing "F*** the police" or about raping animals & getting tattoos & piercings all over your body is certain to get you arrested or an exorcism in most parts of Africa. But it happens that to impressionable, young people on the African continent - the concept of unchecked freedom resonates with them. There are countless musicians in Africa who emulate this American-centric style of "doing as you please" & giving the illusion of having a lot of money. This concept of freedom, however, did not not spring out of a vacuum in America. It has it's roots in Europe.
Now, there was a time when America's father (Europe) did not have concepts of individual liberties & ideas of the people or nation being a force. So when people like the (original) Illuminati & Napoleon spread such enlightenment ideas, the monarchies of Europe sent literal armies to fight them. The Illuminati was outlawed in Germany & European powers declared war on Napoleon, not France, Napoleon himself for spreading revolutionary ideas. As it would later appear, the concepts of individual rights & liberties as well as the people being a critical force in determining a nation's direction & future won in the end. Monarchies who still insisted that they had divine rule & what they say could go unchallenged by the people were removed in revolutions as downtrodden people started realising their independence in all matters. Only monarchies that had well-governed lands & a satisfied populace remained in Europe. This is the background which America is founded upon, individual liberties & the power of common people - not divine rule by a royal family as with the Old World continents of Europe, Asia & Africa. Despite such liberty ideas originating in western Europe, many in western Europe likely still held the idea that a king or emperor still holds divine rule. And, I think, certain liberties & individual rights may resonate with Africa & such revolutions may happen in Africa as well.
AUDIO CLIP: Rights in the Western world
In Africa, many of our concepts of power are archaic & are opposed to individual liberties. As the African youth gets exposed to certain ideas & concepts of liberty from worldwide media, they may realise that they themselves are a force & it is not an aging tyrant in power who could take them into the future. What comes in the place of the removal of these aging tyrants in an uneducated population is usually more tyrants who were long waiting in the shadows of the former tyrant. If the power vacuum of an outdated power system cannot be filled with a modern & accomodating form of rule, we'll revert back to default settings & the ghost of monarchy will continue haunting Africa until it is brought back to life into a new power structure. Whether Africa will continue with Western democracy or adopt constitutional monarchy is still yet to be seen but what makes Western democracy succeed is that they are often educated nation-states (i. e. developed nations comprosing of one majority ethnicity) & Africa often does not have that kind of state. Education alone could never triumph over tribalism & ethnonationalism in the best of countries, so it's fanciful to believe education could usurp tribalist & nationalist sentiments. Often education increases tribalist & nationalist sentiments.
Many African countries may see the dangers of "liberty ideas" in media & try to block Western media but even they know that they cannot stop the West or it's media in infiltrating Africa.
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