President Paul Kagame, levered by many in Malaŵi, portrays himself as a pan-Africanist. My personal interpretation is that a claim of pan-Africanism to be credible demands free-movement of people within Africa or wherever. Now, the anti-immigrant-UK government agrees with Mr Kagame to set Rwanda as dumping site for immigrants headed for the UK. Rwanda’s acceptance of this policy is a bit (read extremely) confusing.

Like Malaŵi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) which always parades corrupt chiefs to back any unjust policy and fraudsters masquerading as saviours of the Land of the Flames, BBC is listing other countries (namely: racist Australia; Israel – how funny;  Denmark – surprised? Don’t be, because the Danes have a commitment to have “zero” refugees on their land) that dump immigrants elsewhere. With its list of countries, the BBC aims to set a public discourse that the UK isn’t alone. What’s more interesting are places where these countries that the UK is modelling its policy on dump such immigrants. All the dumping sites are former German colonies except for 1 – Uganda; a country whose human rights record is heavenly (pun intended).

What a fallacy! By listing these countries, BBC is close to telling you that it’s justifiable and rational for you to be a thief or racist (replace with any abhorrent crime), so long you know someone who shares your despicable ideologies.

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— Pearson X. Nkhoma (@NkhomaPearson) April 14, 2022

This UK policy reinforces observations made by other commentators that immigrants and refugees are welcome in the UK but not those immigrants from… I proceed to listens to the recent speech by WHO’s director, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Just a recap before I conclude this covfefe. Official records on immigrants show that 12 percent of those who cross the English Channel are children (under 18) with 26% of them being girls – some who are unaccompanied. There remains “a greater mix of nationalities making the crossing since 2020” with the majority (slightly over 50 percent) being from Iran, Iraq, Eritrea, Syria, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Sudan. As I said, all are not welcome here, unless…

But what is not being openly said is that just like Denmark, the UK is set to create a zero-immigrant country. Brexit, remember? The immigrants can go anywhere but not here – here being any country in the West unless such immigrants are white, Christian, blue-eyed and blonde.

Even the Pope agrees that “The refugees are divided. First-class, second class, by skin colour, whether you come from a developed country or a non-developed one,” emphasising in his interview on Easter Friday that “We are racists”, where WE means countries in the Global North and their non-people of color.

Back to the UK. By dumping the immigrants in Rwanda, the UK is shifting its responsibilities. This implies that Rwanda can treat these refugees and asylum seekers as it pleases. Their rights can be violated without blinking an eye. Of course, who does not know of Rwanda’s recent human rights record?

It within this spirit that even the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, accused the British government of “subcontracting [its] responsibilities” with what he described as the ungodly policy.

The Archbishop lambasted the policy in his Easter Sunday sermon, saying the grounds on which this new immigration policy is founded on “are for politics and politicians. The principle must stand the judgment of God, and it cannot…And it cannot carry the weight of our national responsibility as a country formed by Christian values; because sub-contracting out our responsibilities, even to a country that seeks to do well like Rwanda, is the opposite of the nature of God”.

The policy is undeniably unpopular just like the Prime Minister who is implementing it. But why does Rwanda accept to be used? Are such policies not against the principles of social justice and pan-Africanism? So, why does Rwanda cosy up to the colonial and racist North for such inhuman policies?

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— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 1, 2022

But again, who am I fooling? Why shouldn’t Rwanda be? I mean my Malaŵi would also have accepted from its largest bilateral donor a 4 to 7% of its national budget (or 3 times of the UK aid) pay check just to dump at Dzaleka (read: locking & sending back to their home countries) all immigrants headed for the UK with no regard for laws and human rights. We are in this together. Which other Western country wants to dump immigrants. Malaŵi is ready to be your dumping ground – just give us some greens, and leave the rest to us.

It’s not like the lives of non-white immigrants matter at all – just like black people in the West. Unless your are someone who ticks all the boxes of being white, Christian, blue-eyed and blonde.