If you have a few moments, please watch this AMAZING, SAD and BEAUTIFUL online slideshow. I got this from the people at Global Information Network. The slideshow highlights the experiences of the many Africans who travel from the continent to Europe - via Spain - to try to find work - and what many believe to be a better life. And before anyone out there jumps off on their tirade about people going over to 'steal' jobs, or work for nothing, think for one little second about WHY people all over the world are trying to find jobs that 'pay better' elsewhere in the first place. Immigrants - on the whole - aren't trying to leave what is familiar to them just for the hell of it; they look elsewhere because they need to survive. So far this year, more than 10,000 Africans have arrived in boats on Spanish beaches.
The song that is played during the slideshow is called ‘Sunugaal’ - or "Our Canoe", and is composed by DJ Awadi, one of Senegal's best known rappers and producers. He says that he has friends who have died, '...some arrived in Spain but said they had survived after their boat sank and others had drowned.' He also says that if Sunugaal does exceptionally well after its online exposure, he may consider doing the same with other songs. Here is the link to the slideshow: http://www.studiosankara.com/sunugaal.html
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