Meeting Manosphere 'Messiah' Andrew Kibe - BBC Africa #shorts
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"If anybody is really my fan, the only thing I tell them is make sure you send me M-Pesa [money via a Kenyan app]." Andrew Kibe is a household name in Kenya who promotes male self-empowerment and misogyny on social media. It started in the West with influencers like Andrew Tate. Now the Manosphere has gone global - with copycats from Africa to Latin America attracting huge audiences and the cash to match. Two of the influencers the BBC has investigated include Kibe and El Temach, one of Latin America’s biggest manosphere influencers, who have repeatedly attacked single mothers, and regularly accused women of being "gold diggers" who manipulate men. Both of the influencers, the BBC found, are earning large sums of money from their platforms. El Temach and Kibe both strongly deny their content is misogynistic, with Kibe - in an interview with the BBC - even disputing the existence of the concept. Kibe, when challenged on his misogynistic content, denied this term appl
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