Title: Les naufragés de la pirogue
Description: "Le 14 septembre 2006, à minuit, cent quatre passagers et moi avions embarqué dans une pirogue de vingt-quatre mètres à destination de l'Espagne. Ce voyage qui dura vingt-trois jours a débuté dans l'embouchure du fleuve Diogué, en basse-casamance, au Sénégal."--Page 4 of cover

Based on the true life experience of Cheikh Salla Ndiaye, we read first hand the dangers of trying to immigrate clandestinely from Africa to Europe in a boat. With 400 other passengers, the author left Senegal expecting a short trip to Spain, but ended up spending 23 days on the journey, running out of food and clean water and never arriving to his true destination
Subjects: Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Refugees, Senegalese fiction (French)
Places: Senegal
People: Cheikh Salla Ndiaye
Time periods: 21st century