From Bantu Migrations to Young African Clandestine Migrants: Causes and Effects

Description

The present work is a psycho-social essay that explores the issue of clandestine African migrants in quest of a better life. The work is developed from the article entitled: “Young African Migrants in the Quest of Eldorado: critiquing Amos Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” and it was published in Pan African Youth Journal. The essay depicts causes and effects under the topic, “From Bantu migrations to Young African migrants”, as the title of the present book. Besides, the essay aims to demonstrate first the Bantu migrations taking into account the Basongye as a selected case study, then coming to the recent issue of young African migrants’ routes to Western land. Therefore, the essay examines that migrants constitute a minority group marginalized. They have to be empowered and hence they may empower other young Africans to understand the necessity of avoiding being wanderers. This empowerment goes through the clandestine migration to be quenched and come to legal migration. Consciousness-raising can be used to help young Africans be aware of their identity and think of the preservation of African personality.