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|title= The Gurugu Pledge

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|date= August 2017

|isbn= 978-1908276940

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Juan-Tomas Avila Laurel, one of Equatorial Guinea's best-known dissident writers, is an author who deserves to be read the world over. With The Gurugu Pledge, he's captured an angry and incredibly urgent slice of the migrant experience – a snapshot of the dangers faced by those crossing the African continent in search of the barbed wire fences at Melilla- the Spanish enclave on the North Eastern tip of Morocco.

The last part of the book is amongst the most disturbing passages of literature I've read in a long time. And it will never be read by as many people as it should be. The final scenes, almost biblical in their imagery, should echo around the world. But they won't. As the author says in his post-script, ''the story of a continent emptying itself in order to go to another one has to be told, and it has to be told where it's happening''. For this reason, amongst so many others, this is a book that needs to be read.

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