Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the "New World Society"

Abstract

Your Excellencies, members, and officials of Europe,2 It is a distinctive honor and privilege to write this letter to talk to you about the aim of our trip and our suffering-we the children and the youth of Africa. We put our trust in you. First of all, we bring you our greetings-the sweetest, the most adorable and respectful greetings of life. To this end, please be our support and help, we the people of Africa. Otherwise whom shall we turn to for help? We beseech you, come to our rescue. Think of your love for your beautiful continent, your people, your family, above all the love of your children that you love so dearly like life. Moreover, think of the love and kindness of the creator, God, the Almighty, who has given you the good experiences, wealth, and power to construct and organize your continent so well that it has become the most beautiful and admirable of them all. [?]3 Members and officials of Europe, we are appealing to your graciousness and solidarity to come to our rescue. Please, help us. We are suffering enormously in Africa. Help us, we have problems, and those problems include the lack of children's rights. The problems we have are: war, disease, malnutrition, etc. As for children's rights, in Africa, and especially in Guinea, we have plenty of schools but a great lack of education and teaching. Only in the private schools can one get good education and good teaching, but it requires quite a lot of money and our parents are poor, they must feed us [?]. Therefore, we do not have sports facilities such as soccer, basketball, tennis [?], etc. Therefore, we Africans, especially we, the African children and youth, are asking you to set up a great, effective organization for Africa so that it might make