{"id":2632,"date":"2019-07-29T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T10:26:32","slug":"gazelles-of-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/gazelles-of-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazelles of the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to watch Nigerian girls and boys walking along the muddy streets of Lagos with colourful clothes or an immaculate white, at their feet the inevitable flip-flops: hopping between one bumpy relief and another. How they avoid car splashes or how they do not lose the whiteness of their shirts is a curious observation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of them are dressed like the young people from all over the world: blue jeans and T-shirt. They throw an eye to where to put their feet and an eye to the chaotic and not very polite traffic of the street.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I find myself interpreting their thoughts…what do they think about their future, their studies or work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nigeria is a country that is very widespread and varied in nature, ethnicity, languages and religions … but it is a country where poverty is widespread: I know well that those kids do not have, at home, a rich wardrobe and many of them do not even have a house like us Europeans we are used to having.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of these children are students, but the level of schools and universities is still far from guaranteeing a serious preparation for the world of work and often these bodies are not able to guarantee a level of general education to put the children in conditions, to grab their dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The economy of the country is growing, but it is still far from being able to guarantee, to the growing population, a quality of life that we could define as sufficient.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even in my country, in Italy, the economy does not seem to be able to guarantee young people a better existence or similar to that of their parents … for the first time, after many decades, life has become less rich in opportunity, despite the rampant technology. The indiscriminate globalization, more financial than industrial, has turned out to be a scourge for the Italian economy and not only for Italy. Nigeria itself suffers because of the market-run world; we all suffer from the dark evils of the liquid world of finance that is drowning more than it has brought out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are losing sight of education and civil life in exchange for artificial well-being. Education seems to be worsening all over the world and a smartphone is replacing thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In any case, in my country, the situation is not as serious as in many African countries, where there are fewer smartphones, but fewer opportunities to increase personal knowledge … I wonder if those girls and boys I watch on the streets of Lagos, are more interested in an “iPhone” or their dreams are those already overcome by young Europeans or Americans\u2026!?…Perhaps the young Nigerians dream of having a home, a car and fashionable shoes … everything \u201cwe \u201ctake for granted and no longer as a dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many Nigerians have the illusion of finding their fortune trying to reach European countries, but they are, fortunately, a small part of them. These guys I’m watching, have energy and show a wonderful smile … their bright eyes, that know how to avoid puddles, know how to see a better future; their hearts know how to handle difficulties and they will build a better country: they are warriors of everyday life!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few minutes and, between a hop and the other, the guys disappear from my sight … my car is crumbled by traffic, while they go fast.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My job here is also for a better country … I wish you all the best, lovely gazelles of the streets,\u00a0the future is definitely yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I like to watch Nigerian girls and boys walking along the muddy streets of Lagos with colourful clothes or an immaculate white, at their feet the inevitable flip-flops: hopping between one bumpy relief and another. How they avoid car splashes or how they do not lose the whiteness of their shirts is a curious observation. … Continua a leggere Gazelles of the streets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,621],"tags":[1082,639,5,41],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-pisciotti","tag-lagos","tag-nigeria","tag-pisciotti","tag-romano-pisciotti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}