American here. As we all know, America is the only important country in the world so there is little need for African content…

Hi Joe, although with a somewhat heavy heart as I think there are some Americans who would say that seriously. I would also love more South African content. It’s a beautiful country with an interesting if checkered story and I would love to visit it someday.

That said, there are two things you should keep in mind. First off, whatever instance you’re on has a large effect on what you will see on Lemmy, so if you want more African content you might see if there is an instance running in Africa or at least subscribe to communities on that instance. You don’t have to join that instance in order to see them, but you do have to go looking for them.

Second, Lemmy has been largely adopted by a westernized population mostly of American and Western Europe origin, mainly because it provides a fediverse system with an experience similar to Reddit. Thus, much of Lemmy’s traffic is current or ex-redditors, which are mostly from the aforementioned demographics.