Stories and voices of people directly concerned by migration in Africa.
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 …
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 …
“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 …