The African stretcher

The stretcher in the boat

In Kabale when the people are sick especially in the villages they lay the mattress and mat in the stretcher.
They put the sick person to sleep in the stretcher; it has four arms where to pass the poles to support the person who is in the stretcher. The stretcher needs four people to carry it. The people put the poles of the stretcher on their shoulders. When they reach at the lake they put the stretcher in the boat. Reaching at harutindo they remove the sick person and put him/ her in the car and be taken to the hospital.

By Kiki

Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Good Friday in Kabale (picture Joventah Niwandanda)

Good Friday

On Good Friday 14th April 2017, different religions, that is Catholics and Protestants, organized together and moved around the town. They were carrying their crosses and were singing the songs about the death of Jesus Christ. One Reverend father acted like Jesus and they were beating him using simple sticks but not beating him seriously just demonstrating how they mistreated Jesus Christ. The Reverend who was acting like Jesus was made to carry a big cross and a man helped him to show how Simon helped Jesus to carry the cross.

 

Good Friday

Easter Sunday

During Easter Sunday people in the village were celebrating and taking local beer. They used calabashes (orushare) to drink their local beer called Omuramba in local language. This local beer is made from sorghum and many people in the villages from Kabale district like it very much.

Good Friday

By Joventah, Patricia and Kiki

Black residents of Belgium 3

HIV patients

Although black Africans are only one percent of the population one in three HIV patients in Belgium came from black Africa.

Internet users

Black Africans use the Internet frequently. In order to communicate, but also for the reading of the African and international press. After all, they cannot find much information about their country of origin in our media.

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Nationalities

The Congolese people are the largest group: they are 75,000. Comparatively most black migrants come from Rwanda, however: about 18,000. There are only about 600 Ugandans in Belgium, mostly in Flanders.

Students and asylum seekers

In the colonial period Congolese, Rwandans and Burundians did not get the right to travel to Belgium. So the influx is mainly a post-colonial phenomenon. Most black migrants came to Belgium as a student or as an asylum seeker.

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Residents of foreign origin

1 in 5 residents of Belgium has a foreign origin. In Brussels, this is more than half; Flanders 1 to 8, in Wallonia 1 to 5. But what about the migration of people from black Africa to Belgium?

Where do you see most blacks in Belgium? Precisely, in Brussels. 6 to 7 per cent of the inhabitants of the Brussels region is black. And the least? In Flanders. Also correct: 1 to 100.

Black residents

Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are mainly found in Brussels and the outskirts of Brussels, Louvain-la-Neuve and the larger cities such as Liege and Antwerp. In Flanders, you will find them especially in the outskirts of Brussels, Denderleeuw, Antwerp, Aalst and Ghent. There are still a number of municipalities with no resident from black Africa.