2023-05-04 21:39:44
Money, gleaming villas and childbirth in the United States of America punctuate the discussions in the salons of the wealthy.
The new rich are grabbing land. Their sated children steal the militants that their fathers hide in their safes, at night they make deafening rodeos between the Corniche and the Almadies.
Our society is unfair.
In the suburbs fathers and mothers toil day and night to provide their offspring with one meal a day. In the villages, the women continue every day to degrade the palms of their hands by pounding millet, going to collect firewood and exhausting themselves in search of water.
When the newly wealthy seek treatment in clinics and hospitals in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, France and the Americas, poor people struggle to find an appointment within three months with a specialist.
On the bumpy tracks women still give birth on carts.
Many old people prefer to die in the privacy of their compounds than to expose themselves in the large, immodest working-class rooms of our hospitals. The fine, well-equipped farms around towns achieve performances equivalent to those of the most modern farms in Europe and America.
On the other hand, poor farmers no longer have good seeds and have less and less access to fertilizers which have become unaffordable. As for herders, they watch with envy the beautiful cows of white-collar herders who produce so much milk that they enrich their already wealthy owners.
On one side are schools for the sons and daughters of the wealthy, with very small classes whose students sit alone behind each table. And there are, not far from there, students who pile up in poorly lit classrooms or in straw huts that let the blinding rays of the sun shine through all day long.
When Modou plays hide and seek at the end of the month with his landlord for the payment of his rent, his cousin who took the fast buses crosses his fingers counting the number of houses he has built and land in his possession since then. only a few years that he occupied this coveted position within the state apparatus.
The new rich barricade themselves in their wealthy neighborhoods sheltered from malevolent eyes while our wealthy merchants and our entrepreneurs live in the neighborhoods and villages with the populations, their parents, to whom they bring assistance, compassion and solidarity.
Ill-gotten gains have an imperative need to be hidden.
When the children of the new rich receive their higher education in the private higher schools of America and Europe, the young people of the villages and the suburbs seek the means of undertaking the perilous journey towards the Europe which, in their eyes, has become , the only way out.
In our country, every day, the gap is dangerously widening between the new rich and the rest of the population. Despair sets in and resentment grows sharper with each passing day.
The red ten thousand franc notes distributed during major events and elections are no longer enough to anesthetize the growing desire for justice and to calm the growing rejection of injustice.
The inequalities have become so glaring, the arrogance of the new rich so unbearable that our society is sitting on a huge unstable social bomb.
The worst violence, the most revolting violence, the most unacceptable violence is economic, social and cultural violence. Let us pray to God that the legitimate resentments of the populations find their expression in the ballot boxes rather than they flow into the streets and the wealthy neighborhoods.
Let us build patiently, courageously, intelligently and peacefully the human, cultural and societal means of the saving transformation of our country.
Let’s make the rage of vengeance a powerful, irresistible and peaceful force in the service of building a country for all. After the rain, there will inevitably be good weather. I wish you a great day under divine protection.
Dakar, Thursday May 4, 2023
Professor Mary Teuw Niane
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