Kenyan sci-fi show depicts future Europeans seeking refugee status in Africa

Set five decades from now, Usoni is a Kenya-based TV production that turns the issue of migration to Europe upside down. The futuristic show depicts Africa as mankind's last cradle of hope in the wake of a series of natural disasters.

Usoni follows the compelling story of Ophelia and Ulysse, a young couple who are desperately trying to escape Europe's terrible conditions and head to Africa, the land of the sun that holds the promise of a better future for them and their unborn child.

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"I was looking at those people crossing the sea from Africa, taking so many risks and getting killed in the process," says (series creator Marc) Rigaudis, explaining how he came up with the idea for Usoni. "If they don't get killed, they come to Europe which supposedly is going to give them a better way of life. Most of the times this is not the reality and their harassment is continuing," he adds.

"This is so unjust, when you think that Europe has made a lot of its wealth and power from places like Africa and now these people -- who are living on one of the richest continents of the world and shouldn't be poor -- have to move because the way things are being done," continues Rigaudis.

"I thought that was so unfair, and then I started thinking it would be interesting if all of a sudden this was reversed."

Shady wrote:Which Africa is he reffering to? The continent or the Africa in west London?

smelly_bandit wrote:
A work of fiction then

DrSchool wrote:Watching that makes me miss Kenyan TV.    I've often though of where the best place to be living in the event of a nuclear fallout and Africa is way up there on the list.  

This was from 2010, http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_d53KdK9PnUw/TLA9zuiQmLI/AAAAAAAAADI/Kx9mAKvcGsA/s1600/Nuclear_power_stations_updated.png  

and this only goes into the 90's   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk

Tess. wrote:
That's weird.  I've read various prophecies (one of my hobbies).  I think it was Nostradamus who predicted that white nations would be driven from existing countries and settle in Africa in the future.

DrSchool wrote:@smelly.    You have never been to Africa have you?  I lived there from 1982-1997 (in Chad, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) and I still have family that lives there (in Uganda).  Africa is a big place; its not like the whole continent is the same as Darfur or Mogadishu.  When I moved from Africa to Chicago, I felt like I had moved to a much more dangerous and violent place.