She doesn’t end there. Aimée takes me through what she thinks African youth are
experiencing. “I think when young Africans watch the media, the western world looks great.
But they don’t see that there’s poverty in Europe; people are struggling. Some people can
barely pay their rent. There’s a huge gap between the upper and lower class. And people don’t
see all this, they think these countries are developed – they’re not. I feel like people should make
videos of how unstable these countries are.”
Aimée volunteered for three weeks at the beginning of the year when Syrian refugees arrived
in Brussels. The refugee crisis facing Europe today “is revealing the true Europeans,” she
claims. “There were no Belgians in the camp. There were only foreigners and people from the
Netherlands. Because we felt that we understood the situation, especially me, from the fact that >>