Спустился с гор. Марракеш , как всегда ,...

Descended from the mountains. Marrakesh, as always, delays. However, this time I settled in a good hotel in a new city. Nearby boutiques, McDonalds, theaters, ZARA, bicycles for hire and other starbucks. In bars and restaurants there are free Moroccan, smoking hookahs burning passersby with black eyes ...
The feeling of an Arab, Muslim country disappears. However, this is only an appearance. Ten minutes on foot - and you are in the medina of the old city, where many women cover their faces, men in jelabbahs sit in coffee shops, and donkeys roam the narrow, cluttered streets with goods and ride the 1960s Peugeot.
Today, I was interested in the negros, of whom many wander the streets of Marrakesh. These are not Moroccan harattins, black descendants of slaves from the oasis of Draa. Speech about real characters from Black Africa. They speak English and against the background of other inhabitants of the medina, and are notable for not only the color of their skin, but also European clothing.
Men mostly try to sell something - watches, glasses, bananas, themselves. Women may also sell something, but what exactly I have not figured out.
Talked to a couple of such migrants .. Interesting. One is from the Gambia (therefore good English), the other is from Equatorial Guinea.
What is the meaning of their stay in the kingdom?
Meaning in falling into Europe. Morocco - transshipment base. Some stay here indefinitely. Less fortunate ones get stuck on hard labor in the Nouadhibse port in Mauritania.
And what, in fact, makes them leave their homeland? There is no war there.
I will share my own, not very objective impressions.
Millions of blacks in Africa live not only in poverty and poor sanitation, they don’t even have permanent access to water, not only high-grade electricity. We must say that we have different ideas about comfort and good life. But, they still want money. Especially those who live in cities and know that there is another life somewhere. No, it's not about medicine and democracy. The point is in film images. Internet, oddly enough, many have. Especially in urban areas. And they watch movies. So, the most passionate pulls there, to this "movie" life. Where everything is on cool cars, with beautiful girls and big pistols. They want to turn into Hollywood blacks and even try to imitate their way of speaking ...

What will lead North Africa to this migration is difficult to say. In Mauritania, the ethnic situation has already changed dramatically. In Morocco, this is not yet visible. All the same, there are too many Moroccans and they do not need migrant workers, but who knows what the kingdom is waiting for in the future?
One way or another, the situation in which the multimillion part of the population of the Earth lives with the Internet, but without water, medicine and education, cannot simply be resolved. Africans are not Papuans. They know that you can live better and do not understand why some people have cars and apartments, while others have a palm tree with a router.