“There can be no post-colonial Africa until there is a post-colonial Western Sahara.” – Lindiwe Sisulu

It’s 8: 17 PM on day 3170 since I started blogging and I managed to pray, read a bible verse and spend time with my nearest and dearest

Today is Africa Day and while I’m proud to be African and we have much to celebrate I would like to call attention once again to the illegal occupation of the Western Sahara by Morocco (can you imagine fleeing from war to what you thought would be a temporary refugee camp only to still be there 43 YEARS LATER?) the United Nations recognizes the Western Sahara as a country separate from Morocco but the referendum the UN promised in 1991 is yet to take place and why because Morocco has powerful allies at the UN. To the UN: I know for a fact that it does not take 28 YEARS to organize a referendum please I  once again BEG of you put your selfish interests aside and think of the Saharawi children who are growing up in the blistering heat on the borders of Algeria with less than the basics.