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When young guys like Mamadou don’t succeed in their dangerous adventure from West Africa to Europe, they’re often not welcome back home. Why is there such pressure for men to succeed and how does this affect women? And how does climate change and global issues such as COVID-19 affect migration and the road to success for the immigrants? What can governments do to make things better? In this episode, Khopotso Bodibe continues his conversation with the South African lawyer and rights activist Sharon Ekambaram and Julie Kleinman, a US anthropologist and author of the book “Adventure Capita...

Last updated: 4 hours ago Since 1966, being homosexual in Senegal is considered a crime and punishable by law. But a few decades ago, some Senegalese men openly identified themselves as neither male nor female, but as an alternative gender - the “Góor-jigéen” or “men-women”. These terms are aimed at belittling the masculinity of homosexual men. Why do you think this is the case? Why do you think societies or communities do that? However, in some countries such as France, where this is not legally punishable, homosexuals live an...

What are the challenges Black migrants face? Listen to a conversation Khopotso Bodibe has with South African rights activist Sharon Ekambaram and US anthropologist Julie Kleinman. #CryLikeABoy #podcast

  •  Updated: 07/05/2021 - 13:17 “The Tuaregs came to say that we had to spend the night in that yard so that we could continue our journey in the morning. They wanted to come at night to pick up girls to rape them,” says Fatoumata, 21, describing her journey from Conakry, Guinea, to Algeria where she was planning to take a boat to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. She is one of few women from West Africa to brave these irregular migration routes. The routes are dangerous for migrants, but especially women, who can face sexual exploitation and rape on the journ...

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.