Warning from Europe To Africa: Go Home Or Face Arrest, You Are Not Welcome In Europe

The EU is warning africans living abroad to go back home or they face arrest because they are already facing economics problem. As Africa's economic fortunes rise and the continent continues to be charmed by superpowers, spare a thought for the millions of Africans in faraway lands. African migration has never been well-documented. While we know that some of the great presidents of our times - Jomo Kenyatta, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Thabo Mbeki - all passed through some far-flung university or another, millions more after them did the same and many more in this 21st Century have landed on European or US shores.

Continue reading the main storyBut every now and again, a backlash of predictably blinkered vision finds a finger being pointed at immigrants of every type and shade and the accusation "illegal" is thrown in their direction and fevered opinion declares that there are thousands of people milking the system. Folk are disliked for their physical difference and decades of contributions and hybrid families featuring an African heritage are casually ignored.

We recently heard, for instance, of an Angolan man who died on a plane while being forcibly removed from his adopted home, from his five children and from his 15- year life in the UK.

And also of an Italian cabinet minister of Congolese decent being likened to an orangutan by a fellow Italian politician, whose own looks would not make Italian Vogue.

Cecile Kyenge has been thrown into the lion's den by her portfolio as Italy's integration minister as she actively campaigns for an easier route to make immigrants Italian citizens.