Banna Ba Mamaenara in Lesotho: No man's land
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There's an impoverished mountainous district of Lesotho where many illegal mineworkers live with their families. Women often wait there for their husbands for months and sometimes years. Some men never return. In this episode, we talk about the fate of the people left behind by those men tasked by their families to provide, tasked to be breadwinners.
In this episode, we used music by Lesotho artist Selimo Thabane. You can check out his work at selimothabane.org.
With original reporting and editing by Pascalinah Kabi in Maseru, Lesotho; Lillo Montalto Monella, Marta Rodriguez Martinez, Naira Davlashyan, Peya Mame Diaw & Arwa Barkallah in Lyon, Lory Martinez in Paris, France, and Clizia Sala in London, UK. Production Design by Studio Ochenta.Theme by Gabriel Dalmasso. Special thanks to our producer Natalia Oelsner for collecting the music for this episode. Our editor-in-chief is Yasir Khan.
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