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Mihlali’s final blow to American Twitter

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LOCAL YouTuber Mihlali Ndamase dealt the final blow against American Twitter following a diaspora twar on Wednesday.

The diaspora wars between SA Twitter and Black American Twitter have been an ongoing online battle with insults thrown both ways.

First is was American tweeps making jokes about African users all tweeting from one computer; then there was wig-gate where they dragged SA women for their wigs.

This time the battle started after @d_ weexy said the Doja Cat’s real name, Amala Zandile Dlamini, summons spirits. Twitter user @ uLelato then sparked the new twar when she posted: “Black Americans are making fun of Doja Cat’s real name (Zandile Dlamini) like they don’t name their babies Laquisha.”

Followed by: “Bruh at least our names mean something. What the hell is Lakeisha & Demetrius?”

Black American Twitter went into attack and @Beymonce posted a shot of a shake-and-go wig captioned: “At least our names mean something.”

South African Twitter didn’t take kindly to the attack and started dragging @Beymonce and Black American Twitter as a whole.

“Black American Twitter is quick to diss African names but they were lazy to jump off slave ships”– American Twitta Killer (@ KindaKoolK­iro).

Ndamase dealt the final blow when she quote tweeted @Beymonce with a picture of her in a full lace wig with the caption: “Come again?”

And it seems that Tweeps agreed that she ended this round of the diaspora wars.

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