[Music]
the subject of this presentation is a
africa without a visa my name is islam
that I am Malian but I am in
Mauritania
i grew up in guinea conakry i
lived in Morocco I lived in Benin I
lived around where I did my high school at
Congo Brazzaville
i studied at dakar in canada
in the united states and so for me I am
as much Malian as African the first
Once I walked in Mali I was 13
years so I knew the rest of
Africa before knowing the mali and
for me it’s very important that we
identifies himself means four Africans in
1937
marcus a panafricanist from jamaica has
actually says that the powers
foreigners to free
the slavery of colonization but
only us Africans can we
free from the slavery of the
mental colonization and the a10 in 1937 and
today we are in 2010 is fled to
the calculation today as
that African we are always locked up
will say in this mental slavery that
does not allow us to move forward and
to go a little deeper into the subject
one of the things that conre looks at me
precisely the emancipation of the people
African have looked different
different approaches in terms of
development policies
there is one of the approaches for ya
several approaches in
development we talk a lot about
regional trade of integration
in Africa to enable the
African continent to develop so
now regional integration in
Africa can happen from different
manners
in a first in a first part
there is regional integration happening
through the development of
infrastructure
so how to make sure, for example, that
we can set up highways
that will allow us to drive from
bamako to dakar or bamako until
to brazzaville and bamako up to cape
town and Bamako to the front
the court up to alger from bamako until
nairobi
how to build infrastructure
which will allow us if we want
today as it is done in europe
or in asia or the united states of just
have money to get your fill
for a period of a few weeks
and go around africa
that’s the vision that currently
development actors in like the
African Development Bank
bilateral and international actors
but unfortunately this vision of
infrastructure will take a tremendous amount of
time to materialize
of course because it costs
a lot of money to be able to put
in place infrastructure according to the
statistics it takes more than 50
billions of dollars a year for
invest in 50 infrastructure
billions of dollars a year in
lack of funding in africa for
infrastructure every year so that’s it
it’s not counting all the money that
is that is misused by our
governments in order to be able to reach
precisely our independence in terms
infrastructure and this has a history
we were colonized we were victims of
slavery at the time of slavery to
the time of colonization the roads
that they were made
they were made for mainly
places and we’ll say roads have
been made to the material areas
first so the gold mines at the port
so the gold mines of mali there are
roads that takes you to the ports of
neighboring countries
he exports the diamond mines and all
raw materials the way in which
our colonizers and our slavers
did it’s just
that was their priority of men in
raw material areas at the port
and export so with this this
strategy that they had heard well
to get rich there is no
opportunity for us african
to exchange between us so you have to
totally changed the deal so we
can get to this point of change
in relation to development
but now that we look at the
development there is a point there is a
development policy that is
so simple to set up but
which will have a giant impact on the
development is an africa without
Visa
it’s something as simple as that
africa visa- free an african
me as a Malian I can go
in l than any country in
africa without a visa
it’s perfectly normal but it’s a
big problem today according to the
statistics
55% of Africans can not get
move to go to another country
without a visa knowing that
unfortunately there are a lot of
our Western European confreres who
they have visas on arrival and actually
it’s so important it’s a
so simple politics that is
Moreover, currently in place
but we can not put it in
place precisely because of this slavery
mind that we who lose us 6
currently
so in fact the research and the
statistics have shown that good good
heard on the tong is the last
region to develop
when we look at the case of Asia 30
and the last 40 years there is a
positive correlation between
socio-economic development and
integration and regional trade
we saw that the Asian countries
more and more and exchange them and
they stopped trading with the rest
of the world more and more and have
currently developed the trade
regional in Asia and more than 60 70%
in the european union the trade
regional have also and trade
are called at 61 to more than
70%
unfortunately we today in mali
we are just
four rounds in africa I was told
and just touches 10 to 14%
the majority of our exchanges are
raw material continues to produce
and continues to sell to the rest of the world
and statistics show us that
that’s what we’re missing
a we Malians and Africans for
to be able to have a vision precisely of a
africa without visa but also africa
where we can exchange and also
meet and do business together
without having this age enclave
mental that it takes a visa to go
see his neighbors knowing that
precisely our colleagues from abroad
do not have this problem
so what blocks what is
blocks today as an African
we have more similarities than we
difference we have more similarities
we have more difference there is
so much to discover with the countries
neighbors only for us we are focused
on going on vacation in France
go on vacation in canada study at
Canada
study in the united states go to turkey
now or so in China instead of
bend over and look at all
opportunities available to us in
neighboring countries that there is a
direct correlation is positive with the
development in 2015
the African Union has put in place
the agenda of 1063 and the agenda of
many people will say and water
an africa integrate an africa where the
Africans exchange with each other
freedom and can just an africa
where development is in place in
the agenda 2063 there is precisely a whole
part under africa without a visa and
say that in 2018 that is supposed to be
next year
Africans all Africans for
to go to any country in
africa without a visa today we are
that in 16 countries there are only 16 countries in
africa where we malians us africans
can we make it recently is the
Kenya which has opened its borders to
African
and it’s really an opportunity to
congratulate all these countries that happens
unfortunately the mali up
today did not open his
borders to the rest of the African countries
being in the bay in the cedeao
we are open to all West Africans
we will say but the mali and other countries
more than about forty
countries do not open borders at
rest of the world in your question that we
pose is what is needed for
we open our borders we remain
africa
what is needed for mali
opens its borders to the rest of
Africa what is needed for that
its hosts of Africans or their
borders to the rest of africa
of course the topics and the reasons
main point to hear is the
migration
so we Malians maybe we go so by
example of other countries such as Africa
south or these visas we will go to migrate in
South Africa will no longer need to
visa there is also everything it is about
terrorism
we are in a country that is emerging from crisis
is in such a Sahelian area that
fate of crisis so to the problems of
terrorists who are put forward
there are also problems with traffic from
illegal products and all that is
linked to terrorism
but in my opinion, I still think that
these reasons it’s just slavery
modern
it’s just mental slavery because
we have more similarities that we have
difference and we have more people with
good intentions we have two people with
bad intentions and you do not have to
believe we believe that by opening new
frontier or that all African countries
or their borders will lead
precisely to a potential chaos so that
that’s one of the potential reasons
how we can set ourselves as a goal
precisely us today in mali but
the other african countries in 2018 from
just talking to our donkeys or ring
covered ring covered rings to our
ministers to us at our government and
ask them for 2018 to open the
borders to mali to the rest of africa
we are happy to see precisely
policies in the room we would like that
precisely the mali is open to the rest
from Africa to a country coming out of
crisis the north is not stable but everything
that’s a classic slavery
mental
so we’re going to go to the second
point but how to imagine precisely
this africa without a visa how to imagine
this plot without a visa what is it going
look like today I’m here and I
can you say that circumstances have
make that
I was offered a nice tip and I had
something I needed to wear
a dress to come to this place
event and I had to wear one but
I only know that I’m not proud of
the life I’m wearing today it’s
produced in europe and he came back a
bring it back to us in africa and we are
sells it at a price three times more expensive
so I’m here taking you
a visa- free africa in a country
cotton producer but we do not arrive
to develop precisely industries
that will allow us to do that and
it’s very simple actually it’s very
simple we are talking about an africa without a visa
today’s theme is to open
Africa and the subject I have
present
it’s just a single idea but I
would like to introduce you today
also we need to close Africa
to the rest of the world
we must close Africa to the rest
of the world it is necessary that the Africans have
more access to countries other than countries
African china was closed for
400 years from the 15th century to the 19th century
the Chinese said we will not do more
business with no more countries
we do business between us Chinese
if you need
dhabi are you in the neighboring province you
take your nabila bah if you need to
rice you go in the state of a side you
take your rice there if there is need for
drink wine in Hong Kong where you take in
wood because as the economy
African
we are so vulnerable because of
reasons that you know that there is
no other opportunity for us to
develop that of closing Africa to
rest of the world
of course it’s a good vision
heard it’s an ideology that goes
take several hours
we will say decades before being put
in place
but it must be put in a way we will
say
she has to present herself
progressive
sssa the introduction of quotas
today if we say in Mali that we do not
will instead of importing more than 100%
of our textile needs we import 80
% of our textile needs for 2018 I
you say that entrepreneurs are going
can go to the areas or send the
happy to be able to transform 2
counting in clothes that we can
bring today and that I
could wear just for a
next event like that without me
feel embarrassed because there I currently
not exactly what I say
unfortunately no it’s really
try to see how not only
of a first part we must
bat as an African to open
precisely africa to africans because
it’s curious is that slavery
mental because our contents we
let’s control our Western confreres they
have this opportunity and we do not know
not what kind of Westerners come in
africa who cares of the moment that the
resident at winters in africa
it can be someone who has been 15 years old
in prison ten years in prison and if there is
examples like this every day
while we have to move to this
ideology and to climb into a
ideology now to close Africa
to Africans we must think
now how are we here in the
room and we in Africa we decide
the next holidays
I will not go to France the next
holidays i will go to tanzania the
next vacation run in Rwanda for
for studying my kids instead
to send them to the united states for
English class I would send them in
South Africa
i will send to cape town where i
would send to the ducks we have to
can try to think more and more
how to consume african produce
African and exchanged between have for
the moment the infrastructures are going
to arrive we are patient by
fifty years old I’m dying if I
am still alive I see myself
very well take a car and be in
car or train to africa from
south to Cairo without a visa and a
charles as well as I want this
vision will materialize
but for this vision to
must materialize ourselves
in addition to know how to live between us
Africans if we do not know what is
does our neighbors country if tomorrow the
infrastructures are there we will always have
this idea of the Congolese who just loves
to party or who like
to dress but we do not know exactly
what are the similarities we have with
the Congolese people who are
similarities fuller larger and
more numerous than we have with the rest of
world so we summarize actually
today I would like to encourage you
everyone to think about being
activists to push an africa without
visa to push for 2018 a mali without
visa for the rest of the Africans and for
to inspire precisely the rest of the countries
Sahelians but to the rest of Africa
so precisely go benin are a few
months decided to open its borders
on the Kenyan style which is a country too
proud has opened its borders to all
is that we can
do I thank you and I hope that
I take it to have thus
the subject of this presentation is a
africa without a visa my name is islam
that I am Malian but I am in
Mauritania
i grew up in guinea conakry i
lived in Morocco I lived in Benin I
lived around where I did my high school at
Congo Brazzaville
i studied at dakar in canada
in the united states and so for me I am
as much Malian as African the first
Once I walked in Mali I was 13
years so I knew the rest of
Africa before knowing the mali and
for me it’s very important that we
identifies himself means four Africans in
1937
marcus a panafricanist from jamaica has
actually says that the powers
foreigners to free
the slavery of colonization but
only us Africans can we
free from the slavery of the
mental colonization and the a10 in 1937 and
today we are in 2010 is fled to
the calculation today as
that African we are always locked up
will say in this mental slavery that
does not allow us to move forward and
to go a little deeper into the subject
one of the things that conre looks at me
precisely the emancipation of the people
African have looked different
different approaches in terms of
development policies
there is one of the approaches for ya
several approaches in
development we talk a lot about
regional trade of integration
in Africa to enable the
African continent to develop so
now regional integration in
Africa can happen from different
manners
in a first in a first part
there is regional integration happening
through the development of
infrastructure
so how to make sure, for example, that
we can set up highways
that will allow us to drive from
bamako to dakar or bamako until
to brazzaville and bamako up to cape
town and Bamako to the front
the court up to alger from bamako until
nairobi
how to build infrastructure
which will allow us if we want
today as it is done in europe
or in asia or the united states of just
have money to get your fill
for a period of a few weeks
and go around africa
that’s the vision that currently
development actors in like the
African Development Bank
bilateral and international actors
but unfortunately this vision of
infrastructure will take a tremendous amount of
time to materialize
of course because it costs
a lot of money to be able to put
in place infrastructure according to the
statistics it takes more than 50
billions of dollars a year for
invest in 50 infrastructure
billions of dollars a year in
lack of funding in africa for
infrastructure every year so that’s it
it’s not counting all the money that
is that is misused by our
governments in order to be able to reach
precisely our independence in terms
infrastructure and this has a history
we were colonized we were victims of
slavery at the time of slavery to
the time of colonization the roads
that they were made
they were made for mainly
places and we’ll say roads have
been made to the material areas
first so the gold mines at the port
so the gold mines of mali there are
roads that takes you to the ports of
neighboring countries
he exports the diamond mines and all
raw materials the way in which
our colonizers and our slavers
did it’s just
that was their priority of men in
raw material areas at the port
and export so with this this
strategy that they had heard well
to get rich there is no
opportunity for us african
to exchange between us so you have to
totally changed the deal so we
can get to this point of change
in relation to development
but now that we look at the
development there is a point there is a
development policy that is
so simple to set up but
which will have a giant impact on the
development is an africa without
Visa
it’s something as simple as that
africa visa- free an african
me as a Malian I can go
in l than any country in
africa without a visa
it’s perfectly normal but it’s a
big problem today according to the
statistics
55% of Africans can not get
move to go to another country
without a visa knowing that
unfortunately there are a lot of
our Western European confreres who
they have visas on arrival and actually
it’s so important it’s a
so simple politics that is
Moreover, currently in place
but we can not put it in
place precisely because of this slavery
mind that we who lose us 6
currently
so in fact the research and the
statistics have shown that good good
heard on the tong is the last
region to develop
when we look at the case of Asia 30
and the last 40 years there is a
positive correlation between
socio-economic development and
integration and regional trade
we saw that the Asian countries
more and more and exchange them and
they stopped trading with the rest
of the world more and more and have
currently developed the trade
regional in Asia and more than 60 70%
in the european union the trade
regional have also and trade
are called at 61 to more than
70%
unfortunately we today in mali
we are just
four rounds in africa I was told
and just touches 10 to 14%
the majority of our exchanges are
raw material continues to produce
and continues to sell to the rest of the world
and statistics show us that
that’s what we’re missing
a we Malians and Africans for
to be able to have a vision precisely of a
africa without visa but also africa
where we can exchange and also
meet and do business together
without having this age enclave
mental that it takes a visa to go
see his neighbors knowing that
precisely our colleagues from abroad
do not have this problem
so what blocks what is
blocks today as an African
we have more similarities than we
difference we have more similarities
we have more difference there is
so much to discover with the countries
neighbors only for us we are focused
on going on vacation in France
go on vacation in canada study at
Canada
study in the united states go to turkey
now or so in China instead of
bend over and look at all
opportunities available to us in
neighboring countries that there is a
direct correlation is positive with the
development in 2015
the African Union has put in place
the agenda of 1063 and the agenda of
many people will say and water
an africa integrate an africa where the
Africans exchange with each other
freedom and can just an africa
where development is in place in
the agenda 2063 there is precisely a whole
part under africa without a visa and
say that in 2018 that is supposed to be
next year
Africans all Africans for
to go to any country in
africa without a visa today we are
that in 16 countries there are only 16 countries in
africa where we malians us africans
can we make it recently is the
Kenya which has opened its borders to
African
and it’s really an opportunity to
congratulate all these countries that happens
unfortunately the mali up
today did not open his
borders to the rest of the African countries
being in the bay in the cedeao
we are open to all West Africans
we will say but the mali and other countries
more than about forty
countries do not open borders at
rest of the world in your question that we
pose is what is needed for
we open our borders we remain
africa
what is needed for mali
opens its borders to the rest of
Africa what is needed for that
its hosts of Africans or their
borders to the rest of africa
of course the topics and the reasons
main point to hear is the
migration
so we Malians maybe we go so by
example of other countries such as Africa
south or these visas we will go to migrate in
South Africa will no longer need to
visa there is also everything it is about
terrorism
we are in a country that is emerging from crisis
is in such a Sahelian area that
fate of crisis so to the problems of
terrorists who are put forward
there are also problems with traffic from
illegal products and all that is
linked to terrorism
but in my opinion, I still think that
these reasons it’s just slavery
modern
it’s just mental slavery because
we have more similarities that we have
difference and we have more people with
good intentions we have two people with
bad intentions and you do not have to
believe we believe that by opening new
frontier or that all African countries
or their borders will lead
precisely to a potential chaos so that
that’s one of the potential reasons
how we can set ourselves as a goal
precisely us today in mali but
the other african countries in 2018 from
just talking to our donkeys or ring
covered ring covered rings to our
ministers to us at our government and
ask them for 2018 to open the
borders to mali to the rest of africa
we are happy to see precisely
policies in the room we would like that
precisely the mali is open to the rest
from Africa to a country coming out of
crisis the north is not stable but everything
that’s a classic slavery
mental
so we’re going to go to the second
point but how to imagine precisely
this africa without a visa how to imagine
this plot without a visa what is it going
look like today I’m here and I
can you say that circumstances have
make that
I was offered a nice tip and I had
something I needed to wear
a dress to come to this place
event and I had to wear one but
I only know that I’m not proud of
the life I’m wearing today it’s
produced in europe and he came back a
bring it back to us in africa and we are
sells it at a price three times more expensive
so I’m here taking you
a visa- free africa in a country
cotton producer but we do not arrive
to develop precisely industries
that will allow us to do that and
it’s very simple actually it’s very
simple we are talking about an africa without a visa
today’s theme is to open
Africa and the subject I have
present
it’s just a single idea but I
would like to introduce you today
also we need to close Africa
to the rest of the world
we must close Africa to the rest
of the world it is necessary that the Africans have
more access to countries other than countries
African china was closed for
400 years from the 15th century to the 19th century
the Chinese said we will not do more
business with no more countries
we do business between us Chinese
if you need
dhabi are you in the neighboring province you
take your nabila bah if you need to
rice you go in the state of a side you
take your rice there if there is need for
drink wine in Hong Kong where you take in
wood because as the economy
African
we are so vulnerable because of
reasons that you know that there is
no other opportunity for us to
develop that of closing Africa to
rest of the world
of course it’s a good vision
heard it’s an ideology that goes
take several hours
we will say decades before being put
in place
but it must be put in a way we will
say
she has to present herself
progressive
sssa the introduction of quotas
today if we say in Mali that we do not
will instead of importing more than 100%
of our textile needs we import 80
% of our textile needs for 2018 I
you say that entrepreneurs are going
can go to the areas or send the
happy to be able to transform 2
counting in clothes that we can
bring today and that I
could wear just for a
next event like that without me
feel embarrassed because there I currently
not exactly what I say
unfortunately no it’s really
try to see how not only
of a first part we must
bat as an African to open
precisely africa to africans because
it’s curious is that slavery
mental because our contents we
let’s control our Western confreres they
have this opportunity and we do not know
not what kind of Westerners come in
africa who cares of the moment that the
resident at winters in africa
it can be someone who has been 15 years old
in prison ten years in prison and if there is
examples like this every day
while we have to move to this
ideology and to climb into a
ideology now to close Africa
to Africans we must think
now how are we here in the
room and we in Africa we decide
the next holidays
I will not go to France the next
holidays i will go to tanzania the
next vacation run in Rwanda for
for studying my kids instead
to send them to the united states for
English class I would send them in
South Africa
i will send to cape town where i
would send to the ducks we have to
can try to think more and more
how to consume african produce
African and exchanged between have for
the moment the infrastructures are going
to arrive we are patient by
fifty years old I’m dying if I
am still alive I see myself
very well take a car and be in
car or train to africa from
south to Cairo without a visa and a
charles as well as I want this
vision will materialize
but for this vision to
must materialize ourselves
in addition to know how to live between us
Africans if we do not know what is
does our neighbors country if tomorrow the
infrastructures are there we will always have
this idea of the Congolese who just loves
to party or who like
to dress but we do not know exactly
what are the similarities we have with
the Congolese people who are
similarities fuller larger and
more numerous than we have with the rest of
world so we summarize actually
today I would like to encourage you
everyone to think about being
activists to push an africa without
visa to push for 2018 a mali without
visa for the rest of the Africans and for
to inspire precisely the rest of the countries
Sahelians but to the rest of Africa
so precisely go benin are a few
months decided to open its borders
on the Kenyan style which is a country too
proud has opened its borders to all
is that we can
do I thank you and I hope that
I take it to have thus
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