“We must travel because travel is a source of inspiration. It is undoubtedly this saying that animates many young Nigeriens and leads them to embrace adventure. Illo Tanko was one of them. Now in his fifties, he had left his village to go to Algeria with the aim of doing business there. But, once there, […]
“If my mother had not gone to ‘hustle’ in the Congo herself, I certainly would have not been born.” Through her mother, she is a descendant of the Yoruba of Porto-Novo, known for their business and migration acumen. Nathalie Karim was born to a Congolese father from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a […]
In Niger, one finds them in the various maintenance or metal carpentry workshops. They are young boys in or out of school, from the countries of the sub-region, whose parents sent them to learn a trade, with the hope that they acquire a skill to enter the working life and help support the family back […]
To escape the lust of her mother’s husband, 18-year-old Mirabelle decides to leave the family unit in Nigeria for Burkina Faso, abandoning her mother and five youngest children. But in the host country, the illusion turns short for the girl. Coming with the promise of a well-documented job in stores in Burkina Faso, Mirabelle realizes […]
Our guest of the day has a rich and winding background. From his first posts in 2000, Makaila Nguebla, a Chadian journalist and blogger, incurred the wrath of the regime of Idriss Déby senior, who ruled Chad from 1990 to 2021. He then went into exile in Senegal, in the country of Teranga; he became […]
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 […]
