I Am Justice: A Journey Out of Africa - Hardcover

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Paul Kenyon is an award-winning journalist who has worked for almost twenty years across BBC News and Current Affairs. In 2005 he was the first reporter to film Iran's secret nuclear sites, making an hour-long documentary which was shown around the world. For four years Paul had his own series on BBC One, Kenyon Confronts which used secret filming to expose corruption in areas as diverse as horse-racing, the Catholic Church and immigration. At its peak it was the most watched current affairs programme on the BBC. Paul currently works on Panorama and he became friends with Justice Amin while researching a two-part story on African migrants for the programme in 2007.

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It was Friday evening after Maghreb prayer when it finally happened.

'This night it should be possible ... The weather is good, the ship is available. You should prepare to travel.'

Suddenly there was a white pick-up truck. They were instructed to climb aboard and lie down. A blue tarpaulin sheet was drawn over them, and tied at each corner.

'Like chickens,' thought Justice.

Every year thousands of Africans risk their lives on one of the world's most preilous migration routes. Paul kenyon tells the true story of just one of them, Justice Amin.

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Eighty miles off the North African coast, a tiny fibreglass boat is sinking. There are twenty-seven men crammed on-board are desperately trying to bail it out, but the weather is closing in. Then one of them spots a ship on the horizon. They change course and head for their only hope of survival. But when they arrive, there's an unexpected reception.

The men end up stranded on the the floats of a giant fishing net as their boat finally rolls over and disappears beneath the Mediterranean Sea.

Justice Amin, is exhausted, cold and soaked, but at least he has something to cling onto.

As night comes, all hopes of rescue fade and he is left drifting in a hazy place between Africa and Europe, darkness and light, innocence and experience.

Justice's journey began in Ghana, at the hands of his uncle, an abusive medicine man. Determined to make something of his life, he fled across the Sahara Desert, before being captured, jailed and tortured. He managed to escape and headed for the people smugglers of Libya, who he hoped would sail him to freedom and prosperity across the sea to Britain, the 'home country'.