content: For these Gambian men, migration has become a duty. One of the main talking points about the European migration is the vast numbers of men relative to women. Of course they're not all fleeing war zones and leaving their wives behind to dodge the bombs, they're mostly risking their lives to provide for current and prospective wives and children. This article tells the tales of some of the men and their village, and supports some of the common knowledge of the manosphere too! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/gambia/11979547/Inside-the-west-African-village-where-every-young-man-is-trying-to-migrate-to-Europe.html Here in our community, if you do not go, you may not be able to even get a woman to marry. Some succeed, some get deported, and some die en route. Yet no matter what the odds, today the expectation is that any young man worth his salt will give it a go. Where was once a hamlet of thatched huts with spartan furnishings now boasts numerous homes with concrete walls, running water and tin roofs, some sporting satellite TV dishes. Nearly all of it is paid for by remittances sent from locals now in Europe It is destroying our social fabric.