North to Paradise: A Memoir Umar Ousman
North to Paradise: A Memoir Umar Ousman The inspiring true story of one man's treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona--and the path that led him…
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North to Paradise: A Memoir Umar Ousman
The inspiring true story of one man's treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona--and the path that led him home.Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in Ghana. Still, as strange and wondrous flying machines crisscrossed the skies overhead, Ousman dreamed of a different life. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields, setting traps in the jungle, and living off the land.
And so, when he was only twelve years old, he left his village and began what would be a five-year journey to Europe.Every step of the way, as he traveled across the Sahara Desert, through the daunting metropolises of Accra, Tripoli, Benghazi, and Casablanca, and over the Mediterranean Sea aboard a packed migrant dinghy, Ousman was handed off like merchandise by a loose network of smugglers and
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To Paradise
To Paradise
To Paradise