Clandestino
The travel to Europe is long, expensive and lethal. Nevertheless every year thousands of Africans fleeing poverty strive to come out on the Atlantic in small fishing boats to cross the 800 kilometer stretch from north-west Africa into the rich Europe through The Canary Islands. While the hopeful migrants from all over Africa are saving up for the expensive trip to The Canary Islands, they exist in the shadows of the Mauritanian port Nouadhibou. A small city located close to the Moroccan border in the northwest part of Africa. This lifestyle has given the migrants the byname “Clandestinos”, which in Spanish means “the Secret Ones”.