Barcelona Or Death: Mothers Watch And Wait As Senegals Men Risk All To Reach Europe

For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the countrys new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay? The view from the plastic chair in which Fatou Samba sits, looking out to sea, takes in many of the elements of the sorry tale of Senegals lost men. She can see the distant shapes of the big industrial foreign fishing ships and tankers, from Europe and China, strung across the horizon. Closer to shore are dozens of empty pirogues, Senegalese wooden fishing boats, rocking idle on a sea mostly denuded of fish.