Desperate Journeys

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After a violent clash between farmers and herders leaves her homeland in ruins Kila loses everything. With nothing left but hope and a counterfeit promise of a better life in Amerika she joins a group of desperate migrants led by the smooth-talking Kaba-only to realize too late that they've been duped. Their passage is a brutal gauntlet: across searing deserts through storm-wracked seas and into the hands of traffickers who trade in flesh and fear. As companions vanish into the sea enslaved or subjected to unthinkable violence Kila presses on-only to be trapped once again this time by the COVID-19 pandemic that turns their stopover into a prison. With her body violated and her dreams shattered Kila clings to a new painful purpose: survive for the child growing inside her. But what awaits her back home? Can she find redemption in a world that blames her for her scars? Will her husband Jeff and a patriarchal culture accept the child born of horror? Nkamanyang Lola's Desperate Journeys is a harrowing story of survival betrayal and the unbreakable desire to reclaim a stolen future.</span></p><p></p>