MikEi

Just another news story, as usual. We are so accustomed to Africans dying that we barely even flinch when hundreds of our people dies. If this happened in Europe, we would see “Pray for Europe” plastered all over social media by the same Africans. Free Palestine hashtags everywhere, but hardly any outrage when our own people die. There is absolutely nothing wrong with showing solidarity with other people. But charity, as they say, begins at home. Until a child dying in Sudan, South Africa, Zambia, the DRC, Nigeria, or anywhere else in Africa becomes a concern to other Africans; until the plight of people in the South becomes a concern to those in the West, until what troubles the East troubles the North, we remain far from achieving genuine continental liberation and unity. African lives must matter to Africans.