Quelle: The Guardian | 09.01.2017
Life is lonely and humiliating for Goundo Wandianga, 21, whose friends and twin brother have all gone to seek their fortunes
Goundo Wandianga is the only young man left in his village. Or at least, that’s what it feels like.
He spends his days lounging under mango trees in his family’s small village in Casamance, the southern region of Senegal, playing on his phone, doing odd jobs for his mother, and dreaming about Europe.
Everyone else carries on as normal in Sare Bakary, his village. Old men sit on benches cracking peanuts and chatting about cattle, the old days, and past attempts to get to Europe. Their wives and daughters work constantly, watering the garden, cooking lunch, and sweeping up the peanut shells, while children dart in and out between the huts.
But in Sare Bakary, there is no group of surly male adolescents, or strapping young men in their 20s. There is just Goundo.
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