Idris Muktar: Rising Above The Anti-Progress Cancel Culture

<p>In today’s episode of The Think BIG for Africa Podcast, my guest is a young African journalist and filmmaker; <a href='https://nation.africa/kenya/news/idris-muktar-two-tweets-from-10-years-ago-cost-me-dream-job-at-cnn-4065264'><b>Idris Ibrahim Muktar</b></a>.  Idris recently suffered the consequences of being human; he made a mistake as a young person and he lost his dream job working with the global news channel CNN for an 8-year-old tweet.<br/><br/>In our conversation, we discussed his stupid mistake, and the impact of cancel culture on learning, critical thinking, and basic development on a continent full of young people. Ultimately, we agreed that Africa cannot afford Cancel Culture, as it is  Anti-Progress. And for the good of society,  people need to get over their emotional zealousness to cancel people whom they disagree with.<br/><br/>Listen, share, and kindly subscribe to the Think BIG for Africa Podcast on your favorite podcast platform (Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Amazon Music, etc).<br/><br/>Enjoy! <br/><br/>P.S.<br/>If you would rather watch than just listen, then click below <br/>https://youtu.be/r6iJE7xN4C4<br/><br/></p>