Tale of daring Cameroonian woman who risks her life in Panamanian jungle where Colombian thugs call the shots to reach America
Hundreds of thousands of migrants to the United States of America have made the dangerous trip since 2010. According to a March 2021 report from Duke University, three-quarters of these migrants are from Cuba and Haiti, with increasing numbers coming from the Indian subcontinent and African countries, notably Eritrea, the...
A woman’s odyssey of justice: Essengue was told to leave Cameroon, if not, the military would take her to Yaoundé…and kill her
Sometime during that week, an official in the detention camp in Cameroon accosted Julliana Essengue and ordered her to have sex with him. “I said no,” she told me. “When I refused, he forced me, and he slept with me. And later, his colleagues came and did the same thing....
From Africa to the Americas: The odyssey of a black migrant running away from war in Cameroon
Julliana Essengue arrived in Tapachula, Mexico, from São Paulo, Brazil, in March 2020. She was broke but determined to reach the United States. After nearly two months traversing rain forests, borders and rivers by bus, car, boat, and foot, she needed money. At first, Essengue and her travel companions squatted....
