Every year, hundreds if not thousands of West African migrants disappear trying to reach the Canary Islands. Soulayman Sangaré tried to make the journey once, then twice, but was thwarted. He remains committed to getting out.
The boats, boats from the Atlantic coastal nation of Mauritania and other African nations, believed to have been used by migrants, weren’t making it to the Canaries. They were emerging on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Caribbean and even as far as Brazil. All carried a sad cargo — the bodies of young men and women who dreamt of a new life in Europe. Few were ever identified.
These photos, by AP photographer Felipe Dana, chronicle the journey of these young men, of the places they left and were trying to reach. Taken together, the images show determination and desperation of the sort that many humans never experience — and that far too many humans do. And, in an emotional collage, they show the clothes that the men on that unfortunate pirogue were wearing when they died — clothes tracked down by the AP and removed from plastic bags, under watchful eyes, to gather evidence about who they were.
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