YAIM Gambia
West Africa
With all the natural resources we have in Africa, why do we still risk our lives going to Europe after spending more than what we spend on a regular migration?
After experiencing this horrible and deadly journey, I see no reason why one should embark on this perilous journey just to go to Europe after spending huge amount of money which can be invested in our continent.
Are our leaders really creating the space for the youth?
What can we do to end this phenomenon?
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Mbye Chatty
Talking about making the grass greener here in Africa, I think this is impossible as instead of our leaders investing on capacity building of our able bodies, they loot us and entrust our natural resources to the west in exchange for little tokens coming in in different forms, hence the reason why many of our brothers embark on this fatal journey in search of a greener pasture which in reality will never come to pass. Many of my friends that I grew up with have take this risky adventure some we have lost and others still languishing in refuge camps, 3 to 5 years of their lives already wasted but still our leaders are showing no sign to encourage our youths to stay in this country because they are all busy making the grass greener in their own back yards.
Kemo Bojang
When we talk about the “Backway” I think a lot of factors come into play. Being a third world country, the state has not been able to provide efficiently for the people especially in the areas of amenities and jobs, causing the increment of the dependence ratio. This has caused a lot of young people to try and move out of the country In search of economic progress or greener pastures.
If we want the end irregular migration, we must first look at the root causes, after tackling these and coming up with possible sustainable solutions, we will succeed in reducing the number of migrants.
Chris Mukasa
Thank you for bringing this up. Have you embarked on this journey yourself or do you know people who have? What are their reasons for leaving the country and do they find what they go looking for?
Muhamadou Bittaye
l personally with the people I’ve seen , it’s more about gaining opportunities for self and family provision. Generally they have a belive that it’s near impossible to make it in The Gambia so they decide to use the back way to get to Europe so they could provide for their families however their are people who are also using the route because of peer influence and some because of the social media image the get from people who have used the same route . So it’s a broad thing I’ll conclude.
YAIM Gambia
You are absolutely right. We have to make the grass more greener here in Africa because we have it all.
Manser Thelua
The grass always seems greener on the other side until you arrive. But in this case the grass is greener in other countries. We should instead build our own but the owners are stoping that.
Pisco
Greetings from the smiling coast. The west coast of Africa where the sunshine’s on the sea.
To delve a little on the subject matter I think it will be important first to have a diagnostic sense of what our young want, what they lack, and where they want to get to. It is evident that poverty has predominated the fabric of our society. What we lack as Africans and young people is still what is affecting us and retarding our process is our lack of self believe, urge for nationalism, confidence, self actualisation and the passion to triumph as africans. We do not want to do yet we want to explore and what we refuse to do as africans in African is what we embrace in the colonizers land thus, this persistently trials we will continue to want to travel to the western land because we did not believe as young people we can change Africa, trasform it and make it a model for a cosy land.
We the young people should begin to do it by our sweat irrespective of what our political elites do for us. We should begin to squeeze the soil by our bare hands to extract oil. Don’t tell me it is impossible because we never try to see or even do a trail and that is why we still believe the pasture in Africa is never green.
Gerald Kariuki
The saddest part is that we are running away from our selves. The inner demons will always be with us unless we address them.