Borders are lifeless but take more life than the
angry Western-African dictators.
It is not a story nor is it news anymore that
precious lives are taken every minute owing to our inhuman constructed border
laws.
While forgetting about the disadvantaged and
unprivileged persons running from their mother lands for lives and to be
recognized as refugees, it is a crime that a flight was cancelled or their is
traffic jam at Rome, Paris or near the Black-house(white-house).
Man-evil(mankind) continue to spend incalculable
amount of energy, time and resources building fences and buying guns to kill
people at the borders.
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
Europe has almost spent more than it should take to
develop the third-world countries. Better still, that amount of human and
non-human resources could have been used to compensate Africa at least for
Europe’s continuous rape of her body.
Yet as an “idiot” African(some western colonial minded
professors will label me), I cannot think western ideologies that to my
understanding are a backfire to themselves.
Imagine the ungodly, evil and bastardized walls and
fences of America, Spain, Greece, Hungary, France to name just the mainstream
evil powers, boiling down to the old, lazy, cruel, and archaic “safety” control
measures provided to migrants at the mercy of the high seas.
If we are definitely not more animal than we think
we are, how dare we practice cannibalism?
Africans, Asians and Latin Americas are second
class animals in the world of political and economic discussions. They will be
only considered where they cannot be ignored. They are the odd ones completely
out.
In the streets of Banjul, Nairobi, Bamako, Dakar,
e.t.c are hungry, sick, malnourished, unschooled children welcoming Barack
Obama. In their dreams for a better future they sing we hope he can change
Africa.
In the streets of Rome, Berlin, Paris, and in the
shadow of the Dark-House of America are the same unprivileged person without
education, jobs, talk less of a house to rest in.
When famine, diseases, wars, drought, pollution and
artificial economic crises called for public attention it is mostly Africa that
is disadvantaged.
They inhabit all beauties but also custodians of western
constructed disasters that painted them ugly. It is not wrong to say, Africa is
the second largest continents and the richest of all . But why this
paradox of poverty striking people in the wilderness of diamonds, golds, oil
and arable land?
Now these people in search for their seemingly lost
beauty, are compelled out of their homes but almost for the worst. They
approach the lands that robbed them(yet continue to do so) off their cultures,
history and resources. To their utmost suspense and surprise, these lands are
unwelcoming to them.
Now, they have lost their true identities and getting
to them no way out. Are these “people” people? How long should they suffer?
Part of those luckiest persons who made it to this
“foreign” land, I am yet to receive recognition. I am looked at as a different
Homo Sapiens mistakenly in an unknown habitat. However, many of my culprits
might have their hearts in the right places. What is unfair of them is refusing
me of my inalienable dignity. My human status though they would argue the basis
of my this claim.
Recently, the immigration office refused to
accredit my permit and this has cancelled my trip to England(the colonial
masters of my ancestors) on a great platform on migration. My contributions in
which would have been substantial. As was said above, since my participation is
likely indispensable, the colonial powers had it that I could still be
instrumental via Skype.
I might break the status quo by leaving for Paris
undocumented this summer as I cannot afford to miss a central discussion on
Africa.
My tears of hope are new and always growing but I
doubt if this is the same for millions of my fellow brothers.
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