By Victor C. Ariole

Extreme Right Parties in Europe and MAGA group in USA are making migration sound like crime. Even when no group— among the expected segregated ones like they say in USA, people of colors or minority groups; in France, Français de papier or sans papier (French by paperwork and French undocumented) — is spared from the wokeism mentality; that is, awareness of being threatened. It behoves the ruling class to restore some sanity, otherwise the entire humanity could be threatened by worse war than the Second World War.

The intelligence given to human beings should make them think and see the planet earth the way astronomers see the presence of stars in the “heavens” and how they behave in their over 40 billion population compared to mere eight billion human beings on earth. The Sun is a star serving multiple planets, including planet earth but does not go into confrontation with the moon and other known or unknown constellations.

Planet earth is demarcated by rivers, seas, oceans, deserts, mountains and valleys. Claim to discoveries and search by Europeans for the enhancement of their lives and in extension upgrading human civilisation have led to blurring and collapsing such demarcation; and for over 2000 years it has created both benevolence and malevolence outcomes.

However, for better humanity, more focus should be on the benevolence to obviate wokeism.

United Nations Refugee and High Commission had proven how humans could balance migration surge to counter its malevolence drive by allocating 500 million human population to Europe in any case of threat to humans from other continents. They must have reasoned it out very well in their New York Treaty, knowing very well that Europe is the arrowhead of migration and exploration; for, in the first place, its own survival, and, in the aftermath, the survival of the entire humanity. Like Queen Elisabeth once asserted in USA, humanity has been made better by three civilisations — the White, the Black and the Native Americans.

In deed these three civilisations must acknowledge their complementarity and avoid subjecting any of them for further disavowal, and dehumanisation. Note: in France, Marion Marechal, a plausible presidential hopeful come 2027 is crying out loud that French Whites are under siege by their Maghreb migrants.

France and United Kingdom seem perturbed by the migration phenomenon and worthily so, because of their colonial past and expansionism drive in the past. It is estimated that there are over 8 million migrants in France and over 14 million in United Kingdom.

Compared to over 500 million whites in USA, Australia, EURASIA, Africa and other Americas, UNHCR seems on a reasonably tally. To UNHCR, Europe should be mindful of not creating human disaster, hence more strategic in averting migrant surge.

Alice Weidell the extreme Right leader in Germany does not seem to know that after the Second World War over 1 million Germans had to emigrate on benevolence drive to Australia and elsewhere to avoid further human loss out of depression. Kemi Badenock in UK and Marine le Pen in France are primarily worried about housing and lack of facilities to contain migrants. Their peers in other parties that are more labour-inclined feel that their economy cannot survive without migrants, hence the European nightmare. Ageing population and bulging youth population are not beyond human intelligence management.

So, like abundant raw materials and minerals in Africa like abundant raw labour force in Africa, no continent on earth could thrive without what comes from Africa. Seeing a documentary cast by Diana Daisy, who went into the jungles of Thailand to discover that Black owners of Thailand are separated from the Thais and are kept in a bush like it is somehow done to the Native Americans, one quickly needs to align with Queen Elisabeth’s assertion — White, Black and Red Indians have moved humanity forward with great sacrifices on their parts. Europeans enjoyed and continue to enjoy civilisational and benevolent immigration and emigration.

Hence observing the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — with great marginalisation of White, Black and Red Indians and their ultra conservatism that make migration into their space quite unacceptable — a new world order can only emerge in benevolence as the White, Black and Red Indians form their own united coalition. It could be seen as another wokeism but it remains wokeism in benevolence.

Listen to BRICS’ Communiqué after their three – day meeting in Delhi, no consensus on what is happening in Ukraine and Iran.

Paradoxically, South Africa in BRICS can never be Black representative as it is far from seeing things the Black worldviews, holistic approach — the ageing population provides wisdom and it guides the bulging youth population to exert their raw force to keep the assets of humanity at work and sustainable for future generation as advocated by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Sixty million South Africans, mixed, café-au-lait, cannot represent the Blacks.

Migration must not be seen as crime as long as it works for the sustainability of collective human heritage, and Voltaire summarised it as human garden; and after travelling worldwide, crossing seas and deserts, in search of gold and greener pasture, with his team,— every member as an escapist or survivor of fellow human horrors, just like South Africans inflicted on other Africans— a benevolent stance emerged: Let’s team up and cultivate our garden, the earthly heritage. The earth is so big that it can contain more people. Let Eagle perch, let crow Hawk perch, and if any says the other should not perch, let malevolence follow it.

Ariole is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Lagos.