The Vice President of Liberia, Senator Jewel Taylor has urged has urged Africans especially her leaders to allow humanity overrule their decision and ideologies.
She made this call during the flag off of the third dry run of Carnival Calabar .
According to Taylor, the theme of this years edition 'Humanity' reflects the real situation in the world especially as it concerns Africans.
“Where is our humanity when we allow our young men and women to be taken into slavery and trafficked across the Sahara desert”?
“Some of them die on the high sea trying to cross to America and Europe; and once they get there, they are locked out and kept in detention camps and are sometimes treated like animals.
“Where is our humanity when people live below a dollar per day and some families cannot find food nor afford to send their children to school”, she said.
“Where is our humanity when we allow our young men and women to be taken into slavery and trafficked across the Sahara desert”?
“Some of them die on the high sea trying to cross to America and Europe; and once they get there, they are locked out and kept in detention camps and are sometimes treated like animals.
“Where is our humanity when people live below a dollar per day and some families cannot find food nor afford to send their children to school”, she said.
She decried the attitude of humans to each other while citing animals as role models of humanity as watchword.
“If one animal ever dies in the animal kingdom, the whole forest shakes. I must thank Governor Ayade of Cross River for choosing this theme.
“We must turn around from our path, else it will lead to annihilation. The strongest survive and continue to harass and suppress the weak and that is not how we should behave.
“We should use this Carnival and showcase those societal ills and put our humanity back in terms of how we behave, in terms of love and concern.
“If we do this, the table will change around and we will find out that they are more who are cared for and loved; especially in a continent like Africa with all the resources that we have”, she said.
Earlier, Ayade said that the 2019 Carnival was designed to tell the story of humanity and oneness around the world.
“If one animal ever dies in the animal kingdom, the whole forest shakes. I must thank Governor Ayade of Cross River for choosing this theme.
“We must turn around from our path, else it will lead to annihilation. The strongest survive and continue to harass and suppress the weak and that is not how we should behave.
“We should use this Carnival and showcase those societal ills and put our humanity back in terms of how we behave, in terms of love and concern.
“If we do this, the table will change around and we will find out that they are more who are cared for and loved; especially in a continent like Africa with all the resources that we have”, she said.
Earlier, Ayade said that the 2019 Carnival was designed to tell the story of humanity and oneness around the world.
In his remarks, Cross River State Governor, Sir Ben Ayade said the state is consciously using the event to remind the world of the need to adopt human face in life and living.
“If you imbue humanity in everything you do be it politics, business, and others, you will be a better person, society will be a better place and no one will need unnecessary protections as will have today among the elites and the well to do in the society, afterall we are all Human, that the message we are passing from Cross River today.
“Unlike the way it is today, human being has becoming more animalistic in our dealings and animals are becoming more humans, Increasingly it’s obvious that man has degenerated to an extreme level of atamism and premitimism. He added
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