“If all I knew of Africa were of popular images – I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and aids – unable to speak for themselves.”
These are the words of popular Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose book Americanah was one of the most widely read novels of the past decade.
It is a fact that, still today, many political forces continue to reduce Africa to security and migration issues, or to a territory for extractive investment opportunities.
We believe it is vital to get rid of any paternalistic view and listen to rising voices on the ground, echoing their demands and amplifying their perspectives to feed into the European political debates.
The recent European Union-African Union summit in Luanda (Angola) was a great step towards strengthening the relationship of the two regions.
