Why should Africans care about UK elections? BBC Africa

On 4 July, the British public will be voting in a general election. Tackling the issue of immigration is high on the next prime minister's to-do list. This is something that will widely affect Africa and African people. But why else should you be keeping an eye on what goes on in the UK elections? Khadidiatou Cissé explains.

[ivanexell-uzmv]

Imagine choosing a party for the benefit of another continent 😂 💀

[phoque]

Imagine not being able to emmigrate and having to stay and fix your *own* country 😬😬😬

[lukorito]

still dont get it, wtf does it have to do with us?!

[wakenyaskytv]

We don't want to hear anything about UK nonsense. We are Africans and Africa is our only business

[Littlelily-]

These people just be putting they dirty hands in someone else's business
Like leave Africa alone omg

[llda]

Please say AFRICANS IN put us in the same boat as you guys there

[CarolArcher]

I'm favoured, $22K every week! I can now give back to the locals in my community and also support God's work and the church. God bless America.❤❤❤😊

[jimmyb]

Didn’t 800+ illegal migrants land in one day during June? Where did the 600 for the whole of June figure come from? Nice to see BBC verify doing their job.

[alunevans]

Britain needs to close the doors on immigration if it is to survive, the amount of immigration over the last 25 years has changed Britain beyond recognition eroding everything British in it's path. Adding over 10 million people to the British population in the last 25 to 30 years is insane.

[fabianabongo]

Did you say we africans have a resoinsibility to follow UK elections?😂

[Luke-yv]

STOP TALKING ABOUT US WE ARE OUR OWN COUNTRY LIKE WERE JUST A COUNTRY😧

[Amukalalu]

How does it concern me as an African who has never left my country.

[joshuadala]

I don’t know why the Indian government was talking about immigration when he’s an immigrant from India and he wants to make it hard for Indians to come

[Buddhavibez]

I think the only thing I don’t understand is why do countries such as Nigeria have or at least want to have the same educational institutions there so that people feel less likely to travel abroad to be educated.

[robertjohn]

I think we in the UK should definitely improve our trade relationship with arfrican nations but it must be with fair and equal trade deals that benefit both sides equally, this is the only way we as a nation can show them that we have left the days of Empire behind us and want to prosper together as equals and not exploit them like China and russia do.

We have much to be gained from working together, the past can never be changed and what we did to the African continent in the days of the British Empire was evil but we have the power to create a fairer and brighter future through mutual cooperation and i hope both the UK and the African nations grab that opportunity with both hands.

[redpillras]

1.5 million in a year 👀

That is wild

[donnajazz]

OMG, 141, 000 Nigerians japa'ed to the UK in 2023

[BatsiraiMusuka]

We are very much westernized down here in Afrika… we fought it in the beginning. But through the generations we have now come to accept it as being normal really.

My advice to anyone panicking… fret not. The world has a way of balancing out in time.

[ahmedakram]

That is your sick mentality, for me I do not care whatever happens in UK

[alunevans]

The indigenous British people are mainly Celtic people (Welsh, Irish, Scottish) there ancestry going back many thousands of years on these islands but now with between 10 to 40% of Anglo Saxon(English) mixed in depending where you are in the country, indigenous English people are still mainly Celts, The region with the highest percentage of Anglo-Saxon ancestry in the UK is Yorkshire, where approximately 41.17% of the population has this heritage. This surpasses the national average of 36.94%. Additionally, in Eastern England, which is closest to where the Anglo-Saxon migrants settled, the fraction of Saxon ancestry is also notably higher. These findings shed light on the genetic impact of the migration from continental Europe (Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark who were all Germanic tribes, The Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians that came over to Britain over one thousand six hundred years ago) during the early Medieval Period, as revealed by recent genetic and archaeological studies.