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For most young people growing up in Africa, Europe and the Western World in general holds the promise of a happy life - a paradise on earth. And when an opportunity to travel to Europe offers itself, resisting is impossible. Human traffickers understand this fact, and use it to exploit people as much as they can.

This scenario is the backdrop for A Gamble With Death: a cautionary story of one young man who, like thousands of other Africans, ignorantly embarked on a dangerous journey from Africa to Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, on a journey that left thousands dead. A journey he was told would last less than 2 weeks became a difficult, horrifying and dehumanizing journey that covered a span of years. His ignorance became a crime and for many, a death sentence as they all gambled with death.

This is a true life story about what he lived through and what he saw: hell.