LekeeLekee, a Revolutionary social media platform built around the ideals of digital freedom, open conversation and community empowerment, is now live, marking a bold new chapter in the evolution of global social networking.
Unveiled by the founders of ARISE and THISDAY media group, LekeeLekee is positioned as more than just another social platform. It is the culmination of over five decades of lived experience across the shifting landscapes of journalism, technology and global communication—from the era of weekly news magazines in the 1970s to today’s fast-paced, AI-driven digital world.
Birthed in Africa for a global audience, LekeeLekee aims to redefine how people connect, converse and create value online. The platform is designed to foster deeper, more meaningful interactions while giving users greater control over their content, data and digital identities.
The platform launches with a wide range of features, allowing users to post text, photos, videos, voice notes and location tags, while also enabling fully encrypted one-on-one and group messaging.
Users can follow accounts, like, comment, repost, react to content, explore trending topics and engage with breaking news through a personalised “For You” feed and more.
Beyond engagement, LekeeLekee places strong emphasis on economic empowerment for creators.
Creators and businesses can monetise content, find clients, build brands and get paid directly on the platform—an approach that seeks to rebalance value creation in favour of users, particularly those in underserved markets hampered by unfavourable polices of American and Chinese-owned social media platforms.
LekeeLekee has been developed with community participation at its core. Thousands signed up to the waiting list ahead of launch, with an initial group of 5,000 users granted early access to preview the platform Friday night. According to its founders, user feedback at this stage will play a critical role in shaping the platform’s future direction.
At the heart of LekeeLekee is a broader philosophical stance of freedom—freedom from global digital domination, freedom for underrepresented voices, and freedom rooted in mutual respect.
LekeeLekee enters the global social media space with a distinctly African voice and a clear ambition: to offer a smarter, fairer and more inclusive digital public square.
As the platform goes live, users are invited to join the conversation, share real moments and help define what the next era of social networking can look like—through an African lens, and on African terms.
Feel the experience on https://lekeelekee.com/
The app is also vailable for download on both iOS and Android devices.
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