South Africa Reacts to TikTok Video of Africans Rejecting Nationality in Bold Movement

South Africa Reacts to TikTok Video of Africans Rejecting Nationality in Bold Movement

  • A TikTok video showed people who were open about their radical identity when it comes to nationality
  • The Africans garnered attention from South Africa after sharing the idea of renouncing borders
  • Online users were divided after seeing the video of the men and women who united together against the idea of borders

A post on TikTok showed a group of Africans who asserted themselves outside of nationality. The group shared a video identifying themselves aS people who are trying to dismantle borders.

African men and women denounce borders
African men and women reject nationalities. Image: Marco Longari
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The video shared on 7 March 2026 sparked a lot of debate among people who are interested in seeing the Africans with a radical idea. Online users shared their thoughts on the African group's mission.

In a post on TikTok by @son_ofafrica men and women appeared on camera telling people that they do not identify with any African countries. They each came in front of the camera and s each of them introduced themselves as borderless Africans. Watch the video of the group of people below:

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South Africa divided over borderless Africans

Many people shared their thoughts on the women's and men's ideas about being borderless. Most lambasted the idea, with brutally honest takes about a world without borders. Watch the video below:

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South Africans shared their thoughts on open borders. Image: Petri Oeschger
Source: UGC

Mat was not keen on a borderless continent:

"Do a borderless Afriva trial with your neighbouring countries, if it works there slowly more countries can join."

Effortless wrote:

"Literally the whole world has borders šŸ™„there is no such thing as a borderless Africa.".

Annaclettaā¤ļø supported the naysayers:

"You can’t have a borderless Africa when other African countries are not even functioning properly."

Yanga remarked:

"I’m an African who respects borders, and I’m from South Africa šŸ‡æšŸ‡¦."

emmanuel nartey wrote:

"For now exclude Ghana. We are minding our business."

Bruce Mzindle supported the opposite sentiment:

"I am Borderfull AfricanšŸ˜‚šŸ‘ŒšŸ”„"

I’m not bob gray argued against the idea:

"That’s not going to work. You guys have unrealistic expectations. Africa will only rise the day African leaders know what accountability is."

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nthangeniruth4 argued against the borderless Africa:

"But you are not united in your respective countries, and you want a borderless continent, wonders shall never end."

IzzyJ said:

"I am for borderless Africa, African countries should be able to trade with no boundaries, but people must not flood South Africa, let's trade, that's all."

nthangeniruth4 said:

"But you are not united in your respective countries, and you want a borderless continent, wonders shall never end."

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Rutendo Masasi (Weekend Entertainment and Human Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 4 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of training courses by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za