It is only a crisis when they come from “shithole countries”. In Libya, slave markets have reopened with many of the same Africans Europe is turning away being treated as commodities. In fact, Africans don’t even need to try to go outside their countries’ borders to be insulted or have their humanity questioned. But no more so than by the treatment and representations Africans have to endure every day from a world that has decided that they come from “shithole countries” and so must be shitty people. And the supreme irony of it is, up until less than a century ago, Africans were quite content to stay on the continent.

Source: The Star January 19, 2018 09:11 UTC