Marché à OuagaThis site is dedicated to a little boy whose name I will never know. I saw him walking in the streets of Ouagadougou at the cross-road of the Charles de Gaulle Pediatric Hospital, bare foot, late in the night. He was very small and gliding among the people in the street, holding high his head, with self-confidence and with a look "don't look at me, I know it all". As I was watching him, comfortably tucked inside my car, I suddenly understood that he had nowhere to go, no one to enfold him safely for the night. Petit d'Homme is a pun in French meaning a little one born from Man. This little boy might never grow up as a man or might never have access to the basics of life, education, safety, health and food. That night he came to my attention but there are hundreds like him wandering in the streets. For this boy and the many children whose childhood has been denied because of the selfishness and the greedy needs of some leaders, this inacceptable situation must cease, and our leaders must act accordingly. Race for Power and Money is just a bad combination leading to excesses encouraged by our politics at different levels. Did you know that African Governments use and used to contribute financially to the western world presidential campaigns?..Orphelins du SidaMy aim is not to make anyone feeling guilty of what we have in the Occident but to raise the issue that some places in this world are facing serious problems regarding food, education, health, safety and freedom of speech and living under the "surviving level". Now consider this: if you ever ask Africans whether they feel like being a citizen of the world or not, their answer will be no. How could they possibly feel like that when it is difficult to get a visa from the "Mother country" which not very long ago took advantage of the richness of their native land? This is beyond their thinking, too far from their perspective...And then do they really have time enough to spare to think about that, as every day the main concern is to find a way to feed the family and to send the children to school. This would be a typical question from a "White" as would say my husband and his friends.
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Some people claim "I love black people", but when it comes to mingle with them every day at HOME, to have them coming to the "Mother Country" it is then a “NO, NO WAYâ€. These same people will go to Africa, bringing back very picturesque pics, probably not seeing the misery behind the smiles and the joyful colors etc. They still have a colonial image of Africa and perpetuate it in the western world. For generations we have been abusing of our power there, and now we should deny them the right to come. I believe that in many ways we have been disturbing their process of evolution for selfish and political gains and in the name of God. Although I can understand the concerns of the western world politics face to immigration, I think that our leaders should seat with their African peers and try to work out a solution rather than taking harsh decisions. What could we do to retain immigrants at home instead of patting the shoulders of despotic African Leaders and encouraging better governance in Africa. It is breaking my heart to see these refugiees and boat people being exploited by smugglers and dying in awfull conditions. Surely there is a way to avoid this. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)Rainbow Warriors
THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN
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