I imagined John Blanke as a talented, proud yet sad man, surrounded by and filled with love for his wife, his queen, his music. But it wasn’t enough.

Dr. Djibril Diallo, Senior Advisor to the Executive Director UNAIDS has said,

They [African (im)migrants living in Europe or the US or anywhere outside their countries] will wake up physically in those countries but, mentally and emotionally, they wake up every morning in their countries of origin.

Kadija George
Poet