APN will start a series of reporting based on investigative reporting directed into learning the social status of Africans in Norway. Our reporting will be country by country, taking on all African countries that are represented in the country.
On Social status
Our reporting on social status will take on the following issues:
- How many in number live in the country.
- How many are in each category – refugees, immigrants etc.
- How many in each category either married or not and to what cultures.
- Educational background.
- Employment status
- And those in coalition with the law, and have to be in Norwegian jails instead of being part of a progressive community.
The purpose of the exercise is to ensure that the African community is aware they have a duty and responsibility to become role models for the future generation.
They have the responsibility to guide themselves in the right direction, and care for one another as a minority in order to avoid landing in problems that turn them into criminals.
This can only be achieved if Africans who are now living in the country understand the responsibilities, to themselves and to others now and in the future.
There has been laxity among many Africans. A don’t care attitude. They do not want to be criticised. They do not want to be corrected, because they assume they know everything.
Yes, they do not want people others to know their affairs, even if they are suffering in silence, because they are afraid of one another. The question now is, how long they will be suspicious of one another in a foreign land? The answer is not far away.
All the Africans in the community know very well that there is need for unity despite which country one comes from. And all of them will work together only if those who are selfish and greedy realise that they are doing a disservice to the community. 2007 should be the year of joint efforts, aimed at success for the black man and woman in Norway. It is your right as an African, to succeed like everyone else who has tasted success.
Time has come when the has to take responsibilities seriously, and be in the front line where things that determine their success is being dealt with, instead of sitting and watching as other nationalities climb up the ladder in business, education, employment and politics.
It is a fact that a community without active leaders remain behind in most of the things. In politics, decisions are made that affect the population. And if a community does not have their own in the political circles, they are not given the priorities they deserve as equal citizens in the country.
The “onward we move, backward we don’t” must become a slogan in the African community in the year 2007. That is what the coming generation expect from the generation of today!
In many European countries, Africans are left alone to struggle. Struggling has been a black man’s and woman’s duty year in year out in the past century.
This century, they all know there is hope, if only they united and worked as a team, a team that has the will to share worries when worries emerge, and to be willing to enjoy happiness together on a daily basis, when happiness is limited or in abundance.
By Korir, African Press in Norway, APN, africanpress@chello.no