To The Bronx via The Silk Road

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As a child in his native Ghana Ali Ibrahim Karim dreamed of living in the USA. But it took thousands of miles and four decades to get there.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Having decided to take the long way as a young adult he became waylaid in Egypt Syria Turkey Iran China and Japan (and had to unblock the old silk road along the way to let a bus go past).</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But eventually he made it with the help of many of his native countrymen plenty of kind strangers and always with the love of his family at his back.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This fascinating story takes in one man's lifetime his relationships both perfect and broken and the difficulty of sustaining family ties over unimaginable distances.</span></p>