Back To Africa: The African Dream or the Capitalist Nightmare?
A critical conversation about Back To Africa by Phillipe SIMO

[...]And by the way, what is Back To Africa’s mission? At least we knew the mission of the American Colonization Society, created in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to their emancipation in the United States. In other words, the founders believed that “free” blacks could not be economically emancipated in the United States. In 1822, this society began to colonize what is now Liberia, under the idea that blacks would have a better chance of freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States. The country declared independence in 1847, recognized by the United States in 1862, becoming the first African nation to gain independence in modern times. 200 years later, we still wonder: where is this “prosperity project” for free blacks? Today, Back to Africa seems to be taking up the same discourse, but with a more modern look. We are sold the dream of a return to our roots, but in reality, it’s a business like any other. The idea of a return to Africa, often associated with emancipation and the reconquest of our roots, is here instrumentalized for commercial purposes. And besides, .why are there no whites in the room? Doesn’t Africa have “white” children too?[...]

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