Life is a journey: Live it (Part 58)

The other autobiography
The moment we signed the contract with the manager of Fördern und Wohnen, the charity which set up the camp for the government of Hamburg we had an address. Jesus Christ in heaven after! After months of fighting for an address had achieved our happiness and our wonderful future to come. With this address Alberta got her visa extended as a residence permit for three years. We joined TKK health insurance, Alberta, and found a job in around two weeks cleaning rooms for Hamburg University near the prison to hold suspected offenders around Stephansplatz. Soon after that she worked for a bakery in Neddefeld and when she stopped joined SBB school in Süderstraße for a course to become a professional cashier. During the COVID-19 epidemic, Netto Discounter employed her in Meiendorf where she was loved by customers and most colleagues. She enjoyed her job. Due to long unfavourable working hours with Netto and personal contact with the Budni owner family, the best known drugstore chain in Hamburg and the outskirts, she works as a cashier in different Budni branches enjoying the job and the customers.

The moment my sister Heidi Jürgensen by legal force released my documents unlawfully taken behind my back in which I found a copy of my Hamburg University certificate I found a job at Stadtteilschule Bramfeld-Dorfplatz as Assistant teacher, another job in addition to it as self-employed teacher and back in the system my position as a Senior Lecturer for African Studies to train adults holding a profession graduation on University level for their A-level qualification. Eighty per cent want to study medicine. The private Academy is located in Poststraße near Hamburg Town Hall. This part I mean you all know.”

“As we are these students,” mentioned Susanne Fröhlich. They all laughed.

Hans Wilder got up and refreshed our memories.”I was most joyful when you lectured us about Africa today and Africa of tomorrow.”

I wanted to know:” Please what exactly do you refer to?”

“You opened our eyes when you drastically said today we praise Africa as a mineral-rich continent. But our generation must think of Africa as an empty continent.”

“Oh yes,” jumped Tobias Wittmann in and got up as well. He continued:” When you extract minerals time comes they are no more in the ground but in products. Oil and gas are used and then burned in the air. No turning back for them. Other minerals turned into products can be recycled. The African minerals economy must develop into a Recycling Economy with service and digital elements. Climate change will speed up the process so that Africa can feed its population less. To feed Africans in the future will be more costly due to irrigation and other technical aspects. Today we pay little money for the raw material for Africans after twenty years to buy our used cars before they fall apart completely. When they no longer get that money and they are drowned in debts how to live and how to buy our products? As African societies grow by 5,5% and here in Germany by 1,4%, in South Korea by 0,7% and Japan by 1,2,% the overall population of Africa during the next generation meaning twenty-five years will be in the Billions of Billions. The birth rate is so high as to have many is a matter of tradition but more so the only trustworthy and functioning social system the Africans have. When collecting all these facts and data, we surely know the fear of another world war or our pension issue will be our greatest problem but ....”

Franz Kleve ended the sentence:”...empty Africa with lots of hungry people.” They all agreed.

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