Vice | The Ivory Coast's Government Has Forced Thousands Into Homelessness

© Isabel Bonnet

Côte d'Ivoire is one of Africa's fastest growing economies.

Much of the country’s success has been credited to President Ouattara, whose curriculum of new infrastructure seems to inspire dreams of a modern, emergent and growing economy. It is, realistically, only the wealthy who have benefited from this.

I went to six different districts in the country's economic capital, Abidjan, and wrote about the human cost of such emergence.

Medium Magazine | Hidden Stories: a barber from Abidjan

Charly Parker, also known as “Chal,” is a barber living in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan. Whether you go in the morning or in the evening, you will always find him with a client, accompanied by a dozen of children outside the barber shop.