A Perilous Escape from Africa

By Bright Destiny Osaiyuwu

Following a recession, many African Countries were plunged into chaos, confusion and disarray which led to death, corruption and poverty. This tumoil caused a large exodus of immigrants who risked everything to escape through the Sahara desert and over the Mediterranean sea. The journey to freedom was not an easy one. Thousands died along the ro

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bright Destiny Osaiyuwu
• Release date: May 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781999106430

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Copyright © 2019 by Bright Destiny Osaiyuwu

ISBN: 978-1-9991064-1-6

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This book is dedicated to my late father Mr. Eng, Moses O. Osaiyuwu and all our African brothers and sisters who lost their lives in a kidnapper’s den, the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean sea.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Introduction

This short novel is about three friends who decided to leave Nigeria to travel to Europe for a better life.

This book will also give you an understanding of what African people are facing (kidnapping, human smuggling, fear, chaos) and what they go through to get to a better life.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to Almighty God for making the writing of this book a success.

Thanks to my precious immediate family members; Kate, Solomon, Sophia and Bernice for the significant roles they played throughout the journey in the writing of this book.

Thanks to my editor, Alyssa Rowley, for her role in making this book a success.

This is a non-fiction book that is based on a true story. The actual events are all real, however, some of the names, places and characters are a figment of the author’s imagination. 18+

CHAPTER ONE

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Just as the clock ticked past six o’clock in the morning, the bright light of the dawn peeped through the holes in the transparent curtains in Eseosa’s room windows, waking him. Eseosa lived in a little village called Udo, Nigeria. It was a small village of approximately 5,900 people and about a fifty-minute drive from the main city.

Eseosa gasped and hurriedly put on his old clothes, grabbed his machete and hat and headed towards his family farm. The major source of income in Eseosa’s village was farming. Every morning men and boys could be seen heading to the various farms in the village to put in their long days’ work.

Subsistence agriculture was part of the lifestyle of all the indigenes of Udo village, and Eseosa’s family was no exception. Eseosa managed to graduate from secondary school but dropped out when