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Afro-Optimisme: Facebook Report
Through my Facebook page “Afro-Optimisme”, I have been able to impact around 50 people mostly my classmates and teachers from my former school. Indeed, once I created the page, I invited them to like it and to get involved in it. People really appreciated my efforts and started commenting on my posts or debating on the topics that I posted. Even though my page did not have a huge success, at least I sparked some positive discussions about African development and sometimes those topics were even brought out in my former
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