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Shades of Us has reached more than 500,000 viewers with fictional and non-fictional stories around the socio-economic issues affecting Africans since the blog started in 2014.

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Shades of Us has 11,483 followers on Facebook. As a result of organic and paid promotions since 2019, the organization has reached 13,815,824 people.

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