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Migrant Story: From Death to Love or How the War in Sierra Leone Led Mariama Konté to Her Senegalese Husband
From 1991 to 2002, the civil war that broke out in Sierra Leone left at least 120,000 dead (200,000 dead according to the CIA), thousands of people maimed (amputation of hands to prevent them from working and especially from voting) and more than 2.5 million displaced people. It has destroyed families, destabilized an entire country, …
Ankaa: An album in the works for Cupidon
Migration is not only in the Africa-Europe direction. There are also those who choose the opposite path like the Franco-Congolese artist-musician Ankaa. Dialogue Migration takes you to discover this exceptional artist who talks about the reasons for her move to Benin, her musical projects and her prospects six years after leaving France, the country where …
Lionel Mandeix, Senegal and its President in the “Objective”
His name recalls his French origins, but for nearly fifteen years, this French national has been “Senegalized”. Lionel Mandeix, on whom Dialogue Migrant focuses his camera in this portrait-article, is the official photographer of the President of the Republic, Macky Sall, since 2017. The man admits to having sailed 10 years in France and 5 …
The spark of Alain Folly, the young Beninese entrepreneur
A graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Management (FASEG) of the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin, Serges Alain Folly aka Alino, in his thirties, is now a young business owner. After a stint in the education sector of his country teaching in secondary schools, he has been working in the catering sector for more …
Focus on “Mboroxé” the Guinean dish that has migrated into many West and Central African kitchen
For various reasons, men move from one point of the globe to another. And often, when they leave their homeland, they take with them more intangible goods than physical luggages. Dialogue Migration focused on a “migrant dish” with origins in Guinea that has fully been embedded in the national menus of many countries in the …
What you need to know before visiting Goma
Each one of us probably has a city they prefer the most. I love to travel the world, but I dream of living in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a city located 1,500 meters above the sea level. Goma is the capital city of the North Kivu Province. It is the tourist …
