Tunisian President Kais Saied has made extremely hateful and racist remarks against African migrants arriving in his country on their way to Europe.
After castigating and making racist remarks against African immigrants who seek refuge in Europe following the poverty, famine and conflicts that undermine their countries, the Tunisian president went so far as to affirm that Africans were the largely causes Tunisia’s problems, by trying to ‘Africanise’ it and alienate it from its ‘Arabness’.
In Morocco, where African migrants enjoy all social rights and are integrated into the social fabric of the Kingdom, these remarks caused immense consternation and a visceral rejection of the remarks made by the Tunisian president against African citizens who legitimately seek a better future for themselves and for their children.
The Moroccan citizen, if he is not used to interfering in the affairs of a country, was violently shaken by the racist and execrable remarks made by the Tunisian president.
To say that the migrants seek to “Africanize” Tunisia and to distance it from its “Arabity” is another nameless aberration.
With a simple glance at the map of the world, the author of these remarks would have realized that Tunisia is already on the African continent. It is as African as Niger, Congo or Tanzania.
