Book Freak #171: North to Paradise

A Journey Along the World's Most Dangerous Migrant Trail

North to Paradise is Ousman Umar's extraordinary account of his journey from a small Ghanaian village to Europe, a five-year odyssey he began as a thirteen-year-old boy. After a childhood spent building toy cars from scraps and watching planes cross the African sky, Umar set out for what his people called "the Land of the Whites," believing it to be a p…