´Nobody goes out of Nigeria to return to Nigeria´.
From Nollywood to Bollywood, dreaming about Hollywood. Uche Mbadiegwu was just ready to start a new life. But ended up strained in Mumbai, victim of human trafficking, without a valid residence permit and at the mercy of dubious locals.
What it really surprised me in the case of The Nigerian Mafia: Mumbai by Nigerian filmmaker, author and academic Onyeka Nwelue is the main character voice: naive and trusting people, nurturing that kind of hope that has to do with the lack of knowledge about how far humans can go. It is naive yet genuine and one can just envy such a worldview. But it is how sometimes victims do feel, particularly victims of human trafficking sharks.
Reader, get ready to face a world of ambivalences, where humour and irony are hiding violence, aggressivity, sex and drugs. It can be cruel sometimes, candid, naive and even stupid. But for sure it makes you think over and over again about the condition of the victim in a world of dreams. Dreams of success suffocated by the weight of slums.
This book is the first in a 10-book series inspired by the author´s travels around the world and would be really curious to follow-up with the rest of the adventures.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
Thanks for the blog tour support x
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