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18.06.2023 Feature Article

African sex

African sex
18.06.2023 LISTEN

South Korea went through troubled times after WWII and independence. A country with few natural resources at the forefront of a dictator with nuclear weapons in his hands, North Korea, rose in the shortest possible time through the ranks of an underdog to a significant economic powerhouse. Semiconductors, car makers, and household appliance giants come from South Korea. Hamburg, Germany lost thousands of jobs in the shipyard industry in 1970/80 to South Korea as they were able to produce commercial vessels much cheaper.

Now the state of South Korea promotes K-pop and female as well as male casted bands to promote the nation and generate revenues. Songs and bands blast South Korean values and goals into the hearts and minds of youth around the world.

These bands are not organically grown but groomed. The young men get dressed up in fancy clothes, haircuts, hair colors, makeup, and gestures well designed and choreographed to swing the hearts of young girls from around the world and make them memories of faces that almost look alike. These boys seem to attract girls and boys similarly as they are portrayed as universally sexy young people. No girl and no boy seem to mind.

Africa is missing the trend. Africans male or female have a certain perception in the minds of the world, especially of white folks. As sex in any marketing strategy sells well when this weakness of foreigners outside Africa is strategically well and creatively harvested African nations easily generate national revenues and can bring the message of a changed and powerful Africa across to the future generation of the world not be seen as a troublesome continent with famine, coups, military rulership, exploitation and migrants on the move to destroy their future society.

Music touches many people many times. Will Africa harvest its glorious future or will the seeds die in the dry grounds of the continent?

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