The Day of the Orphan

Like many eighteen-year-old boys, Saga’s prime concerns are: listening to music his mum calls “hop-hip”, learning about girls from his suave best mate Ibrahim, and making sure his considerable tummy is well-fed. In his affluent, liberal and relatively protected suburb life is pretty good, especially when his mum’s special peanut soup is on the table. However, in Africa, childhoods can be snatched in an instant, especially when you live in a dictatorship. When his friends and family are dragged i