Dear listeners of dialogue migration, welcome! Today we welcome Fatoumata Coulibaly. Born in 1970 in Nioro, Mali, she settled in Mauritania in 1988 with her husband. Currently divorced, she is the mother of 6 children. This fifty-year-old black woman lives in the commune of Sebkha in the suburbs of Nouakchott. Fatoumata is president of the […]
To get away from the living conditions in their countries, many young Africans opt for the adventure to the Western world in search of a better life by legal or “illegal” means. Some leave for further education in order to return and serve their respective countries. Young Guineans are therefore not on the sidelines of […]
In Africa, as in many other countries, socio-political actors are forced into exile, taking refuge in another country – whether on the continent or in the Western world. This is because of their civic engagement activities. Guinean activist Abdoulaye Oumou Sow shares the twists and turns of his experience with Dialogue Migration. In Guinea Conakry, […]
“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 […]
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