Orbán: “The real threat is from the heart of Africa” — Maybe from Ghana?

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán often gives hard-hitting speeches on the threat to Hungary posed by multiculturalism and immigration. At Tusványos in 2015 Orbán argued that African immigration was an existential threat to European nationhood and civilization.

“Let us speak plainly: the intensification of modern-day mass migration is a consequence of political processes. The countries of North Africa once functioned as a defense zone protecting Europe, absorbing the masses of people coming from Africa’s interior. And the real threat is not from the war zones, Ladies and Gentlemen, but from the heart of Africa. . . . There are 1.1 billion people in Africa today, more than half of them under the age of twenty-five. . . . In other words, what is at stake today is Europe and the European way of life, the survival or extinction of European values and nations – or, to be more precise, their transformation beyond all recognition.”

According to Orbán something terrible might happen to Hungary if people come there from the “heart of Africa”, for example from Ghana.

Many describe Ghana’s foreign minister Ms. Hanna Tetteh as a Caucasian woman. When an interviewer asked Ms. Tetteh–who is biracial–about her background, she explained that she has a Hungarian mother and a Ghanaian father who hails from Awutu-Obrachire in the Central Region.

Yes, Ms. Tetteh was born in Szeged, Hungary, and she speaks Hungarian!

Hanna Tetteh, foreign minister of Ghana and Péter Szijjártó, foreign minister of Hungary.

Hanna Tetteh, foreign minister of Ghana and Péter Szijjártó, foreign minister of Hungary.

Her father, the late Emmanuel Ababio-Tetteh came the “heart of Africa” and studied at the Medical Faculty of the University of Szeged. He met his Hungarian wife Anna there. Tetteh’s parents were students when she was born in 1967; they later moved to the UK and returned to Ghana when Tetteh was 11.

Tetteh received a law degree in 1989 at Ghana School of Law in Accra. She is a Barrister-at-Law and has three sisters who also speak fluent Hungarian. Although her parents came from two different traditions and lifestyles, they always encouraged their children to learn both languages and cultures.

While Tetteh currently serves as Ghana’s foreign minister, there is no woman in the Hungarian government! Multiculturalism seems to work in Ghana, while misogyny is doing well in Orbán’s Hungary!

Hanna Tetteh gave a remarkable TED presentation about women in leadership, and to be honest, I wish she would be Hungary’s foreign minister! (Watch here.)

György Lázár

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