The Flip Side of next level gaming in Africa
By DW
14 July 2023 |
12:54 pm
Online gamers around Africa are delighted over Amazon’s new Africa headquarters in Cape Town. They expect the conglomerate will give Africa’s gamers the servers they need to compete fast and fairly worldwide. But Amazon’s new HQ is a game changer for the first modern humans in Africa too. The company will effectively become the custodians of Khoi and San sacred land and heritage.
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