Author Andrew Donkin talks to Year 12 Students
Published 24/01/19, by Lisa Bottomley
On the 24th January, guest lecturer Andrew Donkin visited to talk about his excellent graphic novel “Illegal”. It is a timely, fiction book that displays the real stories behind migration in hope for a better life through the tale of Ebo, a vivacious, motherless 12-year-old boy from Niger who follows his older brother from his inadequate village to the city of Agadez, where traffickers take them across the Sahara Desert to a coastal city in northern Libya. Here, the vulnerable boys again put their lives in the hands of iniquitous men, who give them a cramped space on a compact boat heading for Italy, where they believed would be the start of their new, superior life.