The Africans have to solve their problems in Africa, Richard’s heard people saying many times in recent weeks. He’s heard them say: It’s incredibly generous of Germany to be taking in so many war refugees, in the same breath they say: But we can’t feed all of Africa from here. Then they add: Economic refugees and asylum fraud are using up resources that ought to be going to the actual refugees. It would be better to solve the problems in Africa there. For a moment, Richard imagines what a to-do list would look like for the men he’s gotten to know over the past few months. His own to-do list
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