Mbour, Senegal ¨C Fallou softly whispers that since his mother¡¯s death he has chosen to remain quiet, while young Sokhna recounts the many nightmares she has had following her father¡¯s disappearance: for the children of Senegalese migrants lost at sea, the torment of grief is long-lasting.
Known as ¡°those who remain,¡°?the young bereaved are forced to live with the unbearable suspense or impossible pain of knowing a parent has either died or gone missing after their boat disappeared.
The number of such dead, missing and their children is at least in the thousands in Senegal in?recent years, said Saliou Diouf, founder of the Boza Fii association which fights to maintain the migrants¡¯ memory.
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