Meet Nora & Noreen, and hear about the lives and dreams of young adults in West Africa. This video portrait is produced as part of the 'Future Migration as Present Fact' ERC-funded research project.
The videos provide glimpses of the lives and dreams of young adults in São Vicente, Serrekunda, and Tema. The video portraits present individuals who are not research participants, but who are also young adults in the same locations. They seek to convey the richness of encounters with unique individuals. Personal encounters were also the backbone of our ethnographic fieldwork, but there are limits to how they can be shared, partly because of our ethical obligation to preserve confidentiality and anonymity.
The research takes place in three West African cities: São Vicente (Cape Verde), Serrekunda (The Gambia) and Tema (Ghana). All are urban centres with a mix of people who have grown up locally and people who have come from elsewhere, often from the countryside. And all three are centres of local commerce as well as connection points to the outside world, through shipping, tourism, and migration.
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