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French President Emmanuel Macron called on Africa and Europe to build "win-win solutions", particularly on the issue of migrants, Wednesday addressing 300 young entrepreneurs on the second day of his visit to Nigeria
Visiting Nigeria, Emmanuel Macron called on Africa and Europe to unite to build "win-win solutions" on economic, migration and demographic issues. Asserting that the two continents had "a common destiny" Emmanuel Macron detailed his vision of the "migrant crisis" which is currently shaking the European Union and which will have to to be settled "in the long run" in Africa. "We must resist short-term emotions […] and work with African governments" Emmanuel Macron, who was speaking at a large hotel in Lagos, was quoted as saying "
" The Lasting Answer is to build a better future " in African countries, such as Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire or Nigeria, from which young people leave " economic opportunities " according to him. "Europe can not accept them, at least all of them" whereas "we need Africans to succeed in Africa" . The President reaffirmed the need to control demography in countries where women "have seven, eight children" and to fight "against smugglers" who "have close ties to the terrorists" active in the Sahel
Bringing French culture to life
By standing upright, with a microphone in hand, to the questions of young professionals, Emmanuel Macron reproduced the one of his favorite exercises abroad, tested in Ouagadougou and reproduced in New Delhi, Washington or Aix-la-Chapelle. In the morning, he inaugurated the French Alliance of Lagos, housed in a renovated colonial villa and made available by Mike Adenuga, a Nigerian billionaire who made his fortune in oil, telecommunications and services.
The Alliances Françaises network, which includes 832 schools for more than 500,000 students, « allows to make vibrate the French culture everywhere in the world " greeted the president. In Nigeria, a country of 180 million inhabitants surrounded by French-speaking neighbors, "the place of French is ridiculous compared to what it should be. The potential is enormous " estimated Charles Coursent, the director of the French Alliance of Lagos. Emmanuel Macron then spoke with the famous Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, including community conflicts in his country, the jihadist group Boko Haram and cultural exchanges between Africa and Europe.
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