Book 2019
Les naufragés de la pirogue
- Publisher
- Editions Khoudia/CAEC
- Language
- French
- Published
- 2019
- Fiction
- Emigration and immigration
- Refugees
- Senegalese fiction (French)
"Le 14 septembre 2006, à minuit, cent quatre passagers et moi avions embarqué dans une pirogue de vingt-quatre mètres à destination de l'Espagne. Ce voyage qui dura vingt-trois jours a débuté dans l'embouchure du fleuve Diogué, en basse-casamance, au Sénégal."--Page 4 of cover
Based on the true life experience of Cheikh Salla Ndiaye, we read first hand the dangers of trying to immigrate clandestinely from Africa to Europe in a boat. With 400 other passengers, the author left Senegal expecting a short trip to Spain, but ended up spending 23 days on the journey, running out of food and clean water and never arriving to his true destination