Vipi Radio
Black Panther actress Lupita Nyong’o is on the spotlight after accepting an ambassadorial deal with De Beers Group – an international corporation that specializes in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors.
According to critics, Lupita should have declined the role because she is a Kenyan native, an African & the company has been in the limelight in the past for exploiting Africans.
Activist Bonface Mwangi, in a Tweet has said that the partnership “has disturbed him deeply”.
This ambassadorship has disturbed me deeply. His dad is a revolutionary, a hero of the second liberation and then the daughter goes to bed with De Beers? I’m lost for words.
he wrote Historian Marius Kothor said she had spent some trying to understand “this”.
The way the World works: DeBeers buys Lupita to “blackwash” ( give a black face) to its mining activities and violent appropriation and mistreatments of South Africa Land and Black Population.
Remarked Franciska E. BONIN
@FranciskaB
