You've heard of "Eurasia". Now start thinking about "Eurafrica". My column in this week's @TheEconomist:https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/09/22/why-europe-should-focus-on-its-growing-interdependence-with-africa …
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Think of that scene in GoT where the bleach blonde is carried about by her liberated loyal and loving subjects, and there you have it. Second it is a passive aggressive play by our oligarchs to access African wealth.
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I don't suppose any of those writers will actually ask the Africans what they think of feminism and the various other trendy isms, ists and phobias which excite the Euro sophisticates.
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Well, the article closes with this statement: "Like it or not, Eurafrica is part of Europe’s demographic and cultural destiny. It is better, surely, not to ignore or reject this but to work out how to make it a success." That sounds fairly reasonable to me.
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Is it "reasonable" to say citizens have no power (or right?) to decide who should move to their country? Not remotely true: see: Israel, Japan.
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Well the only reason it would be "inevitable" (as the author claims) is because there *is* a sizable contingent of Europeans who *do* want Africans to come to Europe en masse.
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I influential contingent indeed. Not the majority of Europeans though..
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Has the economist done a piece on the best places in Africa to retire to yet?
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Absolutely subversive.
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Of course!
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