Escape from Afronia

“A dead goat doesn’t fear the butcher’s knife” – Afronian proverb

In Crying for Afronia, the perfect storm of poverty, corruption, cronyism, nepotism, greed, and idealism culminated in what became known as the Lesotho Street attack. In the epoch-defining “The Truth Behind the Lies” report, President Altimus Solomon and General Hamza Leso were exposed as the masterminds behind the atrocity, and with such a deficiency in leadership, something had to break - a military coup ensued.

After the coup, and with hope for decent living standards for the majority seemingly further away than ever, a new saying becomes popular in the cafés of Umoja City: “Without hope there is no life – and in Afronia, there is no hope”.

Tigist and Jacob, two of the journalists who uncovered the truth behind the Lesotho Street attack, now follow the lives of ordinary citizens, who, reaching their breaking point, make the life-changing decision to become refugees.  They follow the migrants through the blistering Sahara Desert, cross the Mediterranean Sea in flimsy dinghies, and walk over mountain passes to northern Europe.

Escape from Afronia, is the story of desperate refugees who are searching for freedom, dignity, peace and, most importantly of all, hope.