This is cool, and should be applauded.

However.

You also have readers and writers from Africa…I thought your opening line excluding that part of the world does say a lot about what the word “International” means for many so called global platforms such as Medium. Somehow the people of the 54 countries of Africa and their diaspora seems to get lost in conversations about International, and my disapppointment is that Medium carries the same narrative in the very first line of a public announcement.

There is something very special happening right now on the African continent, and I would suggest strongly that Medium be open to that not only in action but also in your subsconscious. Folks are reading, writing, creating amazing content, putting out stories and changing the prevailing myths and narratives that have hounded this awesome and vibrant continent. We will tell our stories, whether Medium wants to acknowledge it or not.

Get with it, Medium.