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From Frying Pan to Fire

Brains & Noble

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Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item number: 9256

Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:13 PM

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Category Brains & Noble

Condition new

SKU BN-39301

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This slim but essential book is emotionally wrenching and powerfully affecting. It beams light on a shameful dimension of Nigeria’s – nay Africa’s – current reality, exposing the harrowing adventures undertaken by hordes of hapless youth who risk everything, including enslavement, brutal sexual exploitation, and the loss of their lives, in search of an increasingly illusory bliss in Europe or North America. The book should be required reading for those who run or ruin Africa – and for the rest of us, victims, enablers, or abettors of misrule.

– Okey Ndibe

Author of Never Look an American in the Eye (a memoir), Foreign gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain

This timely book is a long meditation on the predicament of Africans caught in the net of irregular migration. It is a stern warning against betting on the mirage of chance and an eye-opener on the many subtle lures laid by human traffickers. I hope that policymakers, intellectuals and the public at large engage with the thoughts of the author within Africa and beyond.

– Tade Ipadeola

Author of The Sahara Testaments and winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature

This book adds a new and refreshing dimension to efforts by Africans to reflect on the scandalous crisis of young people risking their lives in pursuit of a better life through migration. Blending personal narratives and policy-based analyses, Adeniyi writes in an engaging style that his readers have come to expect.

–Akin Adesokan

Author of Roots in the Sky