By Sanday Chongo Kabange, AfricaNews
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA, 18 January 2010: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has called for Africa to make room for victims of Haiti’s earthquake to restart their lives on the continent from where their ancestors were snatched as slaves.
– The repeated calamities that befall Haiti prompt me to propose a radical solution – to take measures to create somewhere in Africa… the conditions for Haitians to return, said Wade.
– They did not choose to go to that island, he added, referring to the mass deportation of African slaves to Haiti, then a French colony, from the 16th century.
His spokesman Mamadou Bamba Ndiaye gave further details: – If it is just a few people, we will offer them a roof and a patch of land, he told a French radio station.
– If they come in large numbers, we will give them a whole region.
– Now the problem is to know how, and who will bear the cost, he added.
