Podcast : La route de l enfer : fuir son pays au péril de sa vie, le choix de nombreux Africains euronews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euronews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the city of Briançon in eastern France, a group of people is searching for the heroes lost on their adventures. The migrants attempt to cross the Alps in below zero temperatures, without warm clothes and often without enough food.
Fana is only 18 but he feels he became a man at the age of 12 when he decided to go on an adventure and leave his home in Guinea, seeking a better life in Europe. Unlike our previous hero Mamadou, he made it to France. In this episode, we explore what happens to the “tounkan namo”, or “the adventurers”, who succeed. And the price of their success.
Many boys dream of dangerous adventures, of becoming a hero - the strongest, smartest, bravest man of all.
As did the young Guinean man Mamadou Alpha. After the death of his father, all he ever wanted was to get his mother out of poverty and become the perfect son, the family hero. At just 18, he embarked on an illegal migration route to Europe Guineans call “the adventure”, or “tounkan” in the local Malinké language.
Thousands of African adventurers or “tounkan namo” die on these routes trying to cross the Mediterranean in search of a better life in Italy, Germany or France.
De héros à paria : le triste sort des migrants de retour en Guinée euronews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euronews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Across Southern Africa, thousands of men are abandoning stable education and employment and are instead seeking a fantasy fortune in South Africa s abandoned mines.
Often run by criminal gangs, the illegal miners risk their lives and travel as far as four kilometers underground, where they live for several days.
The illegal miners, known as the zama zamas, not only put their lives at risk but also leave their families behind in countries like Lesotho and Zimbabwe for weeks at a time.
In this podcast, we explore how men s desire for status can be destructive for families and how future generations are impacted by growing up with absent fathers.