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IShowSpeed Completes 28-Day Tour Across 20 African Nations
IShowSpeed visited 19 African countries, livestreaming cultural experiences and engaging millions, aiming to reshape views of Africa beyond stereotypes, Ipsos reported Kenya as the tour's digital highlight.
- On Tuesday, IShowSpeed arrived in Namibia, concluding a 28-day livestream tour that began in Angola and covered a 20-country itinerary across Africa.
- IShowSpeed framed visits as connecting diasporic histories, challenging narrow images of Africa by showcasing cultural diversity and noting his Ghana ancestry.
- For his livestreams, IShowSpeed broadcast sessions up to nine hours, featuring local food, dances and athletic challenges, and crossed 48 million subscribers live above Nairobi with peak concurrent viewers exceeding 240,000.
- Large crowds swarmed many stops, with security teams managing fans while platforms generated hundreds of millions of watch minutes and African American internet users expressed public support.
- Critics argued the tour emphasised spectacle, but Yonaiel Tadiwos Belete said, `What most people see in the final video is a few hours of high energy... What they don't see is two-plus months of planning, countless late nights, site visits, rehearsals, security briefings, cultural coordination, and alignment across multiple public and private sector stakeholders to make it happen`.
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For a month, he created the event and drained crowds in some 20 African countries: African-American influencer IShowSpeed completes a tour on the continent where he sought to promote a young and dynamic Africa to his 50 million YouTube subscribers.
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