From a Senegalese Village to Europe: Mamadou Sow’s Patera Survival Story
The 2007 Atlantic Crossing Aboard an Overloaded Patera In the summer of 2007, Mamadou Sow stepped ashore in El Hierro in the Canary Islands after surviving a perilous Atlantic crossing aboard a wooden patera carrying 124 people. Born in Tambacounda, Senegal, in 1991, Sow had undertaken the journey from Dakar with the assistance of an … Read more