Migrant warns Africans off ‘misery’ Europe

[pete2]

An African in Paris is appealing to his countrymen to stay at home rather than risk their lives attempting to break into “fortress Europe”, where, he says, they will be miserable..

“I came in search of happiness,” said Ba, 28, in a cafe in Paris last week. “I found solitude and depression.”

The only white people he had encountered before reaching Europe in 2001 on an overloaded canoe were tourists on Senegal’s beaches. “They were joyful and seemed to spend money without counting,” he writes. “They inspired me with envy and fascination.”

..“People avoided me,” writes Ba, who managed to enrol as a sociology student at the University of Saint-Etienne. “I made beautiful girls flee; to think that when I arrived I fantasised about having an affair with some ravishing blonde who would give me mixed-race children.”

..African immigrants prefer to perpetuate the myth about the good life, even if it means incurring debt to send money home to relatives who treat them as cash cows. “It is a matter of honour,” writes Ba. “We do not want to admit failure. The family would not accept it.”

..“This migratory wave is draining Africa of its lifeblood,” he writes. “I want young Africans to listen to reason. Europe is not worth risking their life for. There they will find only suffering and failure.”<article continues>

Migrant warns Africans off ‘misery’ Europe - Times Online

[Staropramen]

I am sure Ba is on his way home as we speak, actually, probably not. What drivel.

[True Republican]

Migrant warns Africans off ‘misery’ Europe - Times Online

I read the article myself and in fairness to him he's blaming African government not European immigration policy, when will Africa be able to run itself and stop exporting millions of immigrants each year. I wonder Kevin Myers thinks of this piece.

[cactusflower]

I met some "sans papiers" Africans in Paris last year. They were bright young guys, organising a union. They certainly must be missed in their home countries. Some of the African states, unless gouged out by the US, EU and China, may well start to develop faster than most in the next few year.