As centuries pass by the African child continues to live the most inhuman life and transcend through their youthful life with endless struggles, when shall this end?
From the last migration crisis that happen in Morocco on the 24th of June 2022, where horrible videos emanated showing the height of inhuman treatment of our fellow African brothers and sister, which brought tears to eyes and left a lot of questions unanswered. I am deeply troubled about the future of Africa and the future of her young people.
The way and manner these young African emigrants were been treated is a complete transgression of international human rights and very unacceptable, but I can’t blame the Moroccan authorities since our selfish and heartless leaders are all quiet about it which is not enough insult to our collective African conscience, the embassies and consulates in morocco assembled not to condemn the inhuman treatments of emigrants but to applaud the Moroccan authorities on their efforts in ending the migration but has no concerns of how that is achieved with the exception of very few embassies.
What our representatives failed to understand is that in a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depend on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. We attach great importance to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations. But if our diplomatic relations are subject to the goodwill of the other side, we will lose the autonomy of our diplomacy, how these fellows were treated should be condemned to the extreme, and the authorities’ responsible oath to pay the ultimate price.
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives. Ending migration is an interest for both Morocco and the rest of the other African countries and close working policies are necessary to bring an end to this.
It's obvious why African young people are crossing to Europe in search of better lives. Instead of our leaders providing means to keep and sustain them in Africa by building proper institutions that will serve the interests of their people, train, equip and create job opportunities for the young people, they are busy looting our economies and taking adventures on self-aggrandizement.
As always we put ourselves in these unpleasant situations, we chose leaders who lack the pedigree and the heart to even lead an animal farm to preside over our lives and our future. Taking the case of the Gambia, a country with a 75% youthful population and 75% of its electorates were young people in 2021 presidential election went ahead in electing a leader who hasn’t presented any case to end the sufferings of the young people and has no iota of knowledge nor the ideas to do so.
It is time for Africa to wake up, no country is developed by the least educated and old folks but by the educated and energetic young people, we live in a revolutionary whole and the young people should be steering wheels.
Enough is enough.
By Ousman L. Camara
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