Wars: it is precisely in Africa that we are less affected

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Omar Sy criticizes the Europeans for being less affected by the conflicts in Africa than by Ukraine. But do Africans care about these fights?

By Kamel Daoud

VS’is the trial of the week, if not of the year: the Europeans would therefore be guilty of empathy for Ukraine, but not for the rest of the world. Even Putin and Erdogan use the argument otherwise. The famous declaration of actor Omar Sy has therefore been a godsend elsewhere than in France: among those who think that the West is guilty of everything, of their miseries and their presents in their countries. The elites in the Maghreb, for example, marked on the left because of the history of decolonization, make it a leitmotif that dispenses with everything: Westerners are in solidarity with Ukraine, not with Palestine. Everything is there to disqualify the West, freedom, secularism, modernity or democracy. It is useless to think about your present to yourself, your realities, it is enough every morning to…

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