Abstract
Mankind who has been looking forward finding back his <i>Lost Paradise</i>, has defined his life into an endless quest. A quest which has given ground to a topic of reflection among many African writers such as Fatou Diome, who in <i>The Belly of the Atlantic</i>, brings on surface the different aspects of African emigration in European countries. Thus, in this article, we drive, on the one hand, at exposing the misleading and <i>impaired</i> hope that attracts and motivates African young people to run away from their “miserable lives” to cross the Mediterranean and Atlantic oceans and, on the other hand, at highlighting the local solutions that do exist to stop such a social and topical phenomenon.
Highlights
In his perpetual quest for an outstanding There-ness, mankind, in various socio-political and economic contexts, moves in time and space
From the time of the logographers of ancient Greece to that of our day, human beings have been observing a high interest attachment to the conception and the meaning of the notion of There-ness. Such a mind-set finds ground on the impossibility of being satisfied with a day-to-day life and the desire to escape from oneself, from a society that carries the burden of pathological myseries. African thinkers such as Aminata Sow Fall, Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Fatou Diome, have realistically, in their literary productions, examined the issue of migration in a continent gangrened by evils of chronic unemployment, absence of effective health systems, and erosion of endogenous moral values
With the aim of caressing and achieving the dream of a social success, African young people find solutions to economic and social constraints, which are theirs, in canoes of fortunes that defy the deadly waves of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean with a heart cry: to paddle into Europe or die trying
Summary
In his perpetual quest for an outstanding There-ness, mankind, in various socio-political and economic contexts, moves in time and space. In The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome, in a thick handwriting, exposes the dream of young Senegaleses who move towards a There-ness they cannot reach without undergoing the logic of social trials This quest for a "Promised land" is often accompanied by psychological transformations that put on surfurce a universe of itineraries in conjunction with the choice of those who dream of the gated entryway, . It will be useful to study, through the aforementioned novel, the congenital relations between migrations, societies and cultures It will, as well, be appropriate to establish a link between the local and the global to get the feel for life of what determines the social and cultural mind-set, along with the imaginary structures that shape candidates’mentalities for emigration. Be grateful to focus on the socio-economic aspects that underpin migration projects among young Senegalese; and to ponder over possibilities that offer significant growth opportunities to the African descent youth to overcome the tricks of Sioux that they put forward before embarking on a highly dangerous adventure
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