repeatedly penetrate the television pictures in our living room of Africans who end up in fishing boats in the Canary Islands - to realize their dream of Europe. They run from Senegal, the small West African country from Mali and Guinea-Bissau. A radio broadcast from February 2007.
"It is 15 clock 10 in the Studio of your favorite radio station Oxyjeunes': On the jingle begins with sounds of the sea, a special programs about the so-called" clandestine immigration ", in the past year on Radio Oxyjeunes every day program. In the last year reached over 20 000 Africans in simple fishing boats, the beaches of the Canary Islands, as had many reverse or drowned one has counted. In this year already more than 500 of Spain sent back to Senegal.
The transmitter of Radio Oxyjeunes might Pikine, a half million inhabitants, suburbs of the Senegalese capital Dakar. Especially in the fishing district Thiaroye have many families have a son, brother or husband to complain that in attempting to emigrate, with a pirogue to Europe was killed. For corporate guests Secant is clear:...
"They are not tired of life you are looking for a better life I myself have also tried, but when we were in the middle of the sea, broke out a storm We did not want us. risking life and we managed to turn back, so I am today still here. To put my life on the line, but I would not spend 500 000 CFA francs! Not to speak of "suicide" - that is too simple. The people here in Thiaroye know the sea very well. "
young people, mothers, emigrants and seniors. All come to Radio Oxyjeunes to speak There are no taboos" explains the director of the transmitter, Oumar Seck:
"We also ask What are governments doing? Why do the young men gone? What did the politicians to enrich themselves out? The West bears the blame! It appears ungrateful! Lastly, France would be without our African sniper still occupied by Germany! But you can not push anything on the others. What did our governments so that young people stay here in their home? The newspapers are full of reports of scandals, embezzlement, fraud, this is not a good role model and young people are fed up with it, "
On Radio Oxyjeunes is a debate about whether the money for the Tug -. The equivalent of 450-750 Euro per capita per crossing -. would not be better invested in Senegal "If your family know you have money saved up, everyone comes and wants you to help him, complains Secant, who plans his emigration then was the money away. . Senegal would be in five years from the Schneider, one would start with the money business, claims the president of a club which wants to discourage young people from emigration. In Senegal, not to die of hunger, he argues. Moderator Lamine Gueye.
"It is the dream of a young African to make his fortune in Europe, the only question is how to get there There are already many have emigrated to Europe and have something to do you have here.. built a house in Senegal, have a car, her family can send money every month to dream of the young people. to do the same to earn many dollars and then to help their parents to build a house and marry a beautiful woman .
In the main street in the Medina district of Dakar is a lot going on. A colorfully painted collective taxi breaks down and blocking traffic. "Alhamdullilah", thank God, is above the windshield, but today Allah has not helped: the driver is under the vehicle and tried to repair it.
on the sidewalks sold everything imaginable, a man you lemons and oranges from his wheelbarrow, another carpets that hang over his shoulder.
are on the market at each corner of electricity generators in the event that the power fails again. What happen at any time. It There is poverty, but not a mass misery as elsewhere. In other West African countries raging civil wars, not in Senegal. Nevertheless, last year was the largest exodus in the history of the country instead, in 1960 became independent from France. But at least in Dakar has increased the awareness that this "secret emigration" does not pay. Mor Gueye, technicians at Radio Oxyjeunes:
"I myself was tempted to leave, but officially with valid papers and in an airplane, but I've changed my mind I think, has something changed since we discuss the... awareness of the risks have increased since it is known how many dead there is. "
The" Little Coast "of Senegal is located 80 kilometers from the capital Dakar. It is a tourist paradise with coconut palms and sandy beaches. Senegalese from the hinterland and Africans from neighboring countries come to Saly to here thanks to tourism and a better . to find a living, the tourists are on the beaches of Saly in the sun and live in front of hotels European luxury, the 26 year old Ibrahim worked in a rental car five months ago was his younger brother away from Senegal..
"He did not all said, but he has confided his secret to me, I should tell no one. He said he was going to travel. But I did not know that he a wooden boat to the Canaries wanted. For a week I heard nothing from him, because I was afraid. I prayed for him. Then my phone rang one day and I saw a English number on the display. I thought, who calls me at this time? It was my brother. He said Ibrahim, I have arrived. Because me a load fell from the heart. "
Ibrahim sits well after working in the hotel where a group of dancers, tourists maintains. The tip of the tourists is sometimes higher than his hourly wage. The swimming pool there are two elderly Europeans with very young Senegalese women Saly also a destination for sex tourists was, Ibrahim said disapprovingly. He comes from a village in the interior, where his parents and wait for his two sisters on the money that he sends every month..
"We work 24 hours a day We start at eight and come home by 21 clock clock at six in the morning we get up again to return to work to go. Our reward is really miserable. I would have to earn save a lot of money and, but here you can not save a lot. The electricity is expensive, the water, the room that I rented. Then the ride home from Saly to Mbour where .. I live Sometimes it is not enough for dinner, we eat something for breakfast and lunch -. and that's it-you do not know whether your parents are hungry, so you give them what little you have and hope someday to earn more .
Ibrahim also had thought about emigrating. The fact that he speaks several languages, would benefit him in Europe. From his cousin, who has left he has heard to this day. Ibrahim knows everything.
"He came up to Mauritania, then went out of petrol, the captain said, waiting for me, I will get petrol, the captain came back though, but did not with gasoline, the canoe was just before.. capsizing, so they would not anyway progressed. The captain came up with a small boat up to 15 or 20 feet and said I can not rankommen detail. Those who manage this far to swim across, come,. The rest I do not care. - Would He went there to the dugout, would all be jumping on his boat and it would have sunk, you know? Those who could swim the fastest came next. Those who could not swim. People say they are dead, we have not heard from for six months, our cousin. He was with a friend in the dugout. Swimming He could, but my cousin does not. "
now wants Ibrahim no longer the adventure dare. He lives in Mbour, a few miles south of Saly. The city has over 150 000 inhabitants and is the second fishing port in the country. The" port 'but really just a beach, where the leak pirogues.
mothers, their babies on their backs bound, have to wait at the water on the return of the fishermen. The women sell squid and shellfish. Leydou Diop cleans marine snails of sand. She is a widow and has to care for their children alone, and a small piece of dried animals are 12 kilos of rice a little taste!
"People want to go to Europe because they have no work. Here you can earn is not enough. A boy has to earn money in Germany! ... His father is old, his mother is old, what to do?" The other women clap their words applause.
Next door, the men haggle over the price for their fish. Abdoulaye is from Saint Louis in the north. In early December, like many other works of Fischer Here in Mbour, because the water is warmer. Much he has still not caught. The European fishing fleets have fished the coastal waters of empty, Abdoulaye scolds. He demanded
4000 CFA for the whole basket, he explains in the local language Woloff. That is about six euros, but nobody wants to buy the small fish.
"If this continues, we all go to Spain!"
Ibrahim explains:
"For us there is a saying. Barcelona or Barzakh This means that either I create it to Barcelona, create, or I die, death is Barzakh Paradise after death..."
Louligang The village is only few kilometers away from Mbour, but is in the middle in the savannah. The school is a square concrete building. Tourists have financed the toilet, said the teacher Maimouna Diop.
"There is a lack of school material. We were given as a single small pot of paint to remove the two large panels. But who paid the painter? You also have to mix the paint specially to write on the board to better can. We have to pay.
There are tourists who go out of their hotel out. Sometimes they give us books, sometimes they visit us just to give anything. But if we get books, we keep them until the next school year and distribute them to students. " The teacher deserves
90 000 CFA francs a month, about 140 €. She comes to make ends meet, she says, nothing more. But she is better than the 29 year old taxi driver Modou, who earns only half as much.
"With 40 000 a month you can feed a family. Since it is better that you will cut off. Even if you die, that's fine. You have gone even if you die on the way. Then at least you have your peace. ... This is not madness 3'35. Heading to die is better than to stay in Senegal. "
"Barcelona or Barzakh!" also agrees with the nephew of the village chiefs. Sech Mbenge has already tried to make the dream of Europe. He paid 300 000 CFA for the trip in a canoe, 450 Euro, three years, he has saved it.
"We had an engine failure and had to drive to Senegal. If you're going with another boat on, you have to pay again. But I had no more money. When I play 000 300 together, I try again .
"This is not good," says the village chief. He does not agree.
"I listen to him, but he does not understand this," said the nephew. "It is hard to earn money here. In Spain, can you earn each day 150 000. I heard from friends who work there in agriculture. Either I win or I lose. I will take a spell. Do you know the Gri gri? The village chief I will give to the magic. If I pay him, he will work a miracle for me. "
Of the more than eleven million Senegalese, many living abroad, 50 000 alone in the Paris area, but they also work in the United States or South Africa. The money making them transfer back home for about twelve percent of Senegal's gross national product, almost as much as development aid, many wish to emulate them, first they try to get it legally for a visa -. but that's almost impossible to Europe is the borders sealed.. The journalist Abdou Latif Coulibaly, director of the Institute of Communication Sciences:
"Africa's share of world trade is one percent, 80 percent of the people are illiterate and have no access to medical care! How it looks. And if the West lends us a billion euros, he can pay back four billion. That's the problem, not the desperation of the young people on which to point the finger. The problem is how the international economy is organized. And which regime we are in power! The first think to themselves, their clans and their families. ...
It's about millions of lives. And if the European Commission subsidies to European farmers, the Europeans must understand that they kill so that our African farmers (because of an EU-cheaper chicken is considered a native!) You must understand that they can not always enforce the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle. "
Senegal is working closely with the European Union to the problem of illegal immigration under control. agreements with France and Spain to the legal emigration to, and prevent the illegal.. The coasts will be better monitored to be built also with millions of Euros roads and creating jobs to keep the Senegalese in the country, the fight against poverty is also a central point of the program of President Wade, who in these days on his re-election hopes headmaster Moussa Ndiaye.
"Before recently increased the price of bread. For those who can afford nice cars and houses, does not do a lot. But for us. What will the future of our children here, if this continues? We hope that what does "
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