"Help from Africa"
- In the quiet month of August, vacation month in France, two young Guinea
boys are found frozen to death in the landing gear of a Sabena Plane in
Brussels. The public emotion is great.
- Their names were Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tounkara and they were 14 and 15. They were having with them a letter to the "persons in charge" in Europe. This letter has touched the heart of many, appealing to their conscience.
" Help from Africa...help us, we suffer a lot in Africa...We need you to fight poverty and against war..."
- These two young kids have risked their life to be heard and to open
our eyes on the miseries of their country, one the poorest country of the
world.
- They left secretly Conakry but they managed to succeed in their extraordinary adventure by making known in Europe their message of solidarity. Their impact was enormous: in Europe first, where politicians felt directly concerned, in Guinea also, where their funeral had a national character, attended by a huge crowd mostly young ones. For them, Yaguine and Fodé are their symbol.
Our Europe is living on itself, looking for its comfort and closing its boundaries. It gives up African countries, when in the past it has so often abused of their resources for its own benefit.
Thanks to Yaguine and to Fodé to remembering us the great suffering of African countries and how we are lacking concern. Yes it is urgent to set up a new cooperative action for this continent. If that happens the death of these young Guineas would not be in vain.
