welcome to candid africa truthful and
unapologetic i think that the things
that have brought us here today
tell us a lot about the development of
our continent of africa
i'm beginning by saying that the place
of the diaspora the status of people in
the diaspora
of the african diaspora is intimately
linked with what happens
on the continent and africa strong and
performing
transforms your position and your status
here in europe
but in africa which continues to live
the narrative of poverty
hungry children people going across the
sahara
going in rickety boats and dying in la
pesuda
to get to europe that africa is not a
narrative
that is going to help you over here so i
think between you
and us our main task is the
transformation of the continent
and why do i say so just one simple
example
the chinese diaspora is supposed to be
some 60 million people
and in the table of states that
constitute
the 25th country in the world
they're saying that of the 52 billion
foreign investment
that went into china in the 80s and 90s
that transformed china
into what it is today the manufacturing
hub of the world 50 of that
26 percent came from the chinese
overseas community
and that development of china that has
taken place has changed the status and
the position of
chinese all over the world
so i want you to take those statistics
very seriously
because that is the transformative
connection that we want to make with the
african diaspora
how to implicate it in the development
of the continent
once we change the narrative about
africa and we can only do it
ourselves we have to get away from the
idea that there's some
father christmas somewhere who's going
to come and develop our continent for us
there is no such father christmas
there's just us
who are going to be able to develop our
country
so once that mentality is our mentality
that we have to do it ourselves then our
relations with other people
become that much more structured and
uh pontillious if you like our relations
with france our relations with europe
our relations with europe is a natural
one you look at the geography of the
world
africa and and and europe and our
natural partners it's just this
small strip of water the mediterranean
that separates the two of us
so when you look at that and you look
also the history
of that has gone on between africa and
europe
that is a natural relationship and a
natural alliance
but a relationship that has to be
different from the relationship
that we've had up to now why do i say so
that relationship has enriched europe
but has not enriched africa
so we need to change that dynamic and we
can only do it
by ourselves taking the correct
measures for our future
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