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africa, hostile, land

The Predestined Land

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Africa ingests and assimilates everything that is hostile to it. Perhaps it is the Predestined Land from which the light that will regenerate the world will one day emerge!”

Isabelle Eberhardt

africa, suffering

The Suffering of Africa

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Afrika, Afrika! Ditt lidande har varit det ämne som fångat mitt sinne och fortfarande engagerar det – ditt lidande kan ingen mun uttala, inget språk förmedla.”

William Wilberforce, brittisk parlamentsledamot (f. 1759, d. 1833)

africa, conflict

Few Conflicts in Africa

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“In 1998, 14 African countries were in a state of armed conflict or civil strife. Now the number engaged in major conflict is down to three.”

Jan Eliasson, dåvarande ordförande för FN:s generalförsamling, 13 oktober 2005

africa, difference, exotic, Kapuscinski, reality, subjects, write

The Real Exotic Subjects

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“The so-called exotic has never fascinated me, even though I came to spend more than a dozen years in a world that is exotic by definition. I did not write about hunting crocodiles or head-hunters, although I admit they are interesting subjects. I discovered instead a different reality, one that attracted me more than expeditions to the villages of witch doctors or wild animal reserves. A new Africa was being born — and this was not a figure of speech or a platitude from an editorial. The hour of its birth was sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant; it was always different (from our point of view) from anything we had known, and it was exactly this difference that struck me as new, as the previously undescribed, as exotic.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, “The Soccer War”

1960s, africa, europe, interest, Kapuscinski

When Africa could Conquer Europe

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“In those days, the 1960s, the world was very interested in Africa. Africa was a puzzle, a mystery. Nobody knew what would happen when 300 million people stood up and demanded the right to be heard. States began to be established there, and the states bought armaments, and there was speculation in foreign newspapers that Africa might set out to conquer Europe. Today it is impossible to contemplate such a prospect, but that time, it was a concern, an anxiety. It was serious. People wanted to know what was happening on the continent: where was it headed, what were its intentions?”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, “The Soccer War”

africa, Kapuscinski

Kapuscinski on Africa

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Denna kontinent är alltför stor för att beskrivas. Den är som en ocean, som en egen planet, ett mångskiftande, överflödande kosmos. Det är bara med största förenkling, för bekvämlighets skull, som vi säger: Afrika. För bortsett från det geografiska namnet finns i själva verket inget Afrika.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, “Ebenholtz”

africa, death, human, Kapuscinski, loneliness, man

Kapuscinski on the African Death

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“En människa dör alltid ensam, dödsögonblicket är hennes livs ensammaste stund. Fast under tiden dör också en annan människa, som också är ensam. Och lika ensam ytterligare någon. Och så faller det sig - för det mesta mot deras vilja - att var och en som i sin ensamhet genomlider sitt eget, unika döende samtidigt befinner sig i närheten av många andra som också ligger och dör.”

Ryszard Kapuscinski, “Ebenholtz”

africa, talent

The Brain Drain in Numbers

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Report from CGD: 51% of Kenya’s doctors are abroad. 81% of Liberia’s nurses have left.

How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? To answer these questions, CGD’s Michael Clemens and Gunilla Pettersson have compiled a dataset of the cumulative bilateral net flows of African-born physicians and nurses to the nine most important destination countries.
Swamp Cottage

africa, migration, spain

New Deals with Guinea and Gambia

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Spain has announced deals with Guinea and Gambia to curb the flow of illegal migrants towards Europe in a diplomatic offensive that pledged more Spanish aid and cooperation to poor West African states. (…)

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (…) announced a €5 million ($8.49 million) aid package, part of a two-pronged strategy that seeks to halt migrant departures and also back long-term development aimed at persuading young Africans to stay in their own nations.

In Gambia, he sealed a similar deal to expand legal migration channels while tightening controls to keep out clandestine job-seekers from the world’s poorest continent.

“We will open avenues where Gambians can have opportunities to work in Spain legally if they have legal documents,” he told reporters after signing the agreement in Banjul.

A record number of around 26,000 mostly African migrants have landed in the Canaries this year (…)
NEWS.com.au (10 Oct 2006)

africa, EU, migration

The Mediterranean as the New Berlin Wall

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

“Migration will be the first challenge for Europe in the years to come,” Franco Frattini, EU commissioner for justice and security issues, said in an interview. “Fortunately, for the first time there is a consensus,” he added, that European nations must work with Africa to address the issue effectively. (…)
The agreements (…) include pledges from European nations to provide more temporary work visas for African migrants and to make it easier for them to send remittances back home.
International Herald Tribune