The trip and the cheating among Africans looking for new horizons out of Africa

Authors

  • Jonathan Echeverri University of Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.v31n51a08

Keywords:

tricks, West and Central Africa, aspirations, uncertainty, adventure

Abstract

This article examines travels and cheating as ways of achieving aspirations that have gained visibility in West and Central African societies starting in the 21st century. It derives from a research project conducted in Dakar, Senegal between 2009 and 2012. It also builds on particular aspects of another project conducted in Quito, Ecuador, between 2014 and 2015. Both places are stops in which the itineraries of Africans looking for better horizons out of the African continent arrive. In the stories of these Africans tricks and travels are interconnected. This article describes the ways in which these two elements shape realities of my interlocutors. It also inquires about the relation that tricks and travels have with uncertainty, emergent models of social success and a rooted sense of adventure.
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Author Biography

Jonathan Echeverri, University of Antioquia

Doctor in Anthropology. Professor of the Department of Anthropology, University of Antioquia.

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Published

2016-07-11

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Echeverri, J. (2016). The trip and the cheating among Africans looking for new horizons out of Africa. Boletín De Antropología, 31(51), 153–170. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.v31n51a08

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Vol. 31 No. 51 (2016)

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Misceláneo

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