"When I look around at these major projects which are being set up in Senegal right now, they are all being run by young graduates who have come back after having studied at international institutes in the US and France. For some of them this is their first job. They want to come back and my problem is finding good enough jobs for all of them. The young people who are migrating in boats to the Canary Islands are not graduates. Our objective is to give them a chance to earn money quickly. I met up with some of them who had been brought back from Spain. I asked them what it was all about. They said, 'Mr. President, we have no work here. We have to do something. If you give us jobs we will stay. The other thing is that there are prejudices against the traditional peasant life which our grandfathers lived.' But modern farms are different. I know graduates in Senegal, who have banana farms, and have come back with new ideas and use modern materials."
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