“If I had decided to leave my country, Côte d’Ivoire, for Europe it was because I was looking for a better tomorrow. I was desperate and youth-naïve. Yet what I was going to look for was there, right in front of my eyes. I just had to appreciate them, right here at home, in Africa.” […]
If we ask most Congolese women and specifically those of my city, why are they no longer in their homes? The answer of one of them will be that they don’t know. Not because they really don’t know, but because they don’t want to put up with all forms of stigma. My name is Georgette […]
In her book “De si longues nuits: La solitude des épouses d’émigrés en Afrique de l’Ouest” (So long nights: The loneliness of emigrants wives in West Africa), Aurélie Fontaine tries to deconstruct the narrative surrounding the migration phenomenon. The journalist starts from the observation that in West Africa, in Europe, we often talk about those […]
