In recent years, thousands of Africans, have made insane journeys across the Sahara, to strife-torn Libya. Most of them, according to a report in Rwanda’s New Times, are “younger than 20 and hail from the Horn of Africa”. Until now, you had South Sudanese refugees in Uganda or Somali refugees in Kenya. These refugee-migrants, unmoored from their parochial roots, infused with an enlightened pan-African nomadism, could be the ones who make Africa great again. Since Kusi Ideas is a roving annual festival, hopefully one of the next ones will have a topic like “The future of Africa is in Libya’s squalid migrant camps”.

Source: Libya Today December 12, 2019 10:18 UTC