Monique Ilboudo is a Burkinabe writer, activist and academic whose work focuses on the promotion of women's rights and citizenship. She is a regular newspaper contributor, known in particular for her column Féminin pluriel (1992-1995) which addressed the situation of women in her country. Her first novel, Le Mal de Peau (1992) won a national prize in Burkina Faso. She has also held political office as both a minister and ambassador.
Jeanphi, a young man from the fictional West African city Ouabany, has one obsession that will determine the fate of his life – migration. He scrapes together money to take the illegal route across the Sahara, making it as far as Morocco before being repatriated. Increasingly desperate,...
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