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 Anne-Metta Kobes "I was sitting at the table with my back to the sun and the newspaper in my hand. My eye fell on a small message at the top right of the page. It was in the section that the editors called 'First', but in the section 'Short'. More boat people than ever in Lampedusa', I read. In my head, Diggy automatically started singing Dex, the song for which he had translated the French original by Christophe Maé. The song was named after an island in the Mediterranean: Lampedusa. I remembered how Diggy Dex had once sung the lyrics on TV. And how he then talked about the boy who had been visiting him for a few years. That boy had fled Eritrea when he was 15. Away from the division, war, and oppression, because a new horizon beckoned. The horizon, which, viewed from such a gray base, will of course soon shine more beautifully than it does now. His journey in the hope of blessing became a turbulent flight. But what do you tell about that to the people at hom...