They were treated like terrorists,\u00a0writes Malaika wa Azania.<\/p>\n
There has been speculation about what transpired in Morocco a few days ago when a black youth ambassador for the AU landed in\u00a0Morocco.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0full-time student in Grahamstown is\u00a0a member of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) South Africa.<\/p>\n
The CCDA-4 is organised by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (Uneca), the AU Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB).<\/p>\n
In Casablanca in Morocco, the crisis of being a “black terrorist”, began.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival in Morocco, at 12.10pm on Tuesday, Moroccan authorities, in spite of valid and authentic documentation, refused to grant the blacks\u00a0visas.<\/p>\n
Some people in the\u00a0group were allowed to enter the country while others were denied entry.<\/p>\n
People holding diplomatic passports, were high-ranking officials but\u00a0were equally being denied entry.<\/p>\n
The language barrier between the Afro-Saxons\u00a0and the Moroccan authorities, who speak French and Arabic, was making communication a “nightmare” according the youth ambassador.<\/p>\n
The sense of entitlement black\u00a0South Africans suffer from, increased the antagonism on both sides.<\/p>\n
Eventually Wa Azania was asked to “drink water from a toilet” because there was nothing else\u00a0available.<\/p>\n
Washing her underwear and drying it with a hand-dryer, and using her fingers to pry the plaque off her teeth, was “the most humiliating experience”, she said. ” No woman should ever have to go through that.<\/p>\n
“We were treated like terrorists who had gone to Morocco to destabilise the government, or as asylum seekers who were refusing to be deported back to their homes,”\u00a0Malaika wa Azania said.<\/p>\n
The youth ambassador\u00a0couldn\u2019t stay in Morocco after the trauma she said, and booked onto the next available flight eventhough they were granted visas.<\/p>\n
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