From Senegal, here's something for Africa's former colonial masters

This one comes from Senegalese author Fatou Diome, and she speaks for me when she addresses our former colonial masters thus over our brethren drowning to get to Europe:

"These people whose bodies are washing up on these shores – and I carefully choose my words – if they were Whites, the whole Earth should be shaking now.

The European Union, with its navy and war fleet can rescue the migrants in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea if they want to, but they sit and wait till the migrants die.

It's as if letting them drown is used as a deterrent to prevent migrants from coming to Europe. But let me tell you something: That doesn't deter anyone... we live in a global society where an Indian makes a living in Dakar, someone from Dakar makes a living in New York, and a Gabonese makes a living in Paris. Whether you like it or not, this process is irreversible...

And the Schengen visa that you speak of – you will let me finish!—this visa gives me the opportunity to be invited to give talks in your universities if you find my brains convenient and profitable, but it bothers you that my brother, who may not have the degrees that I have, but who may want to may be come to Europe and work in construction, that idea makes your countries schizophrenic...

Anywhere I go in Africa, I meet French people, Germans, and Dutch. With your passport, you go anywhere around the world, and act like you run those place, with your pretentious demeanour. Stop the hypocrisy. We will all be rich together, or perish together.