When the young people return to the village, in Africa
Audio 48:30
Neighborhood of the municipality of Abobo, Ivory Coast.
© RFI / Charlie Dupiot
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 min
Along with the massive exodus movements towards the cities, there is also a massive reverse movement, made up mainly of young people who have chosen to leave the city to return to the village, in the face of the rise of precariousness and a growing labor market. more competitive in town.
This is for example the case in Côte d'Ivoire.
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The return of these young people is not without consequences and upsets the established order.
How is the integration of these "returnees" going?
What are their relationships with the elders?
An ethnologist deciphers these new rural dynamics.
With:
Léo Montaz
, teacher-researcher at the University of Lille, author of
Return to the village: youth and powers in Côte d'Ivoire
(Karthala editions)
Francis Akindes
, sociologist.
Professor at Alassane Ouattara University in Bouaké.
Director of Programs of the Unesco Chair of Bioethics
Eric Joel Balega
, youth president of the village of Mahidio, near Gagnoa in Côte d'Ivoire.
Returned to his village in 2012.
Eloge Midi
, owner of a mobile phone business in the village of Zokrobouo in Ivory Coast.
Returned to his village in 2011.
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