The year 2018 ended with the adoption of the Global Compact on Migration symbolically on the African continent and precisely in Marrakech. It must be said that Africa has been very present in the collective imagination of the thousands of actors who came to celebrate the new good word on migrants. Nonetheless, our continent was the silent backbone (godfather) of this important moment in human history that crystallize all the fears and challenges that would push us today to the absolute necessity of a better «migration management».