Immigration is not an African Problem
Some people in the West,
especially the rich and powerful have propagated - and successfully so - a
narrative of immigration that portrays Africans as the problem and the western
world as a region that is overwhelmed and burdened by this "African
problem." I have problems with this narrative. Not necessarily because immigration
is not problematic but because this kind of binary is not only unfair but also
irrational. If we were to grant that immigration (especially when it is illegal and irregular) is a problem, we should equally be ready to be reasonable enough to agree that it
is a global - and not an African - problem. Many people are migrating for various reasons to various
locations of the world. There is evidence to show that many of these people, whether Africans, Europeans or Asians
etc, do it illegally and irregularly. Our friends in the western world should be well alive
to the fact that there are many illegal white immigrants in Africa as well. I think if
and when African countries will start counting illegal European, Asian and
American immigrants in Africa who have come to the continent at times on
tourist visas, sometimes without any visa and made African countries their homes
without due processes, the world will realise that the so called immigration crisis is
not and has never been an African problem.
Immigration is not an African Problem
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
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May 09, 2018
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