Loop maar met haar mee. Ineke laat U meegenieten van de mooiste mensen van Den Haag met soms de vreemdste verentooi.

Vanuit de Rivierenbuurt-Spuikwartier waar ze tegenwoordig woont ontdekt ze opnieuw haar oude omgeving waarvan ze veertig jaar is weg geweest. U gaat haar Den Haag ontdekken en de mensen die ze ontmoet zien in een nieuw licht dat zacht maar ook hilarisch is. U zult geraakt worden.

Het is een feestje , dit boek!

Bridget is a young Ghanaian woman born with cerebral palsy, a physical disability.

She had the fortune to survive because of her exceptional mother and grandpa in a village that thought of her as a worthless if not dangerous being.

Bridget, now 25 years old, looks back and still wonders if she is worthy of living the life of a normal human person...

The story of Bridget is about hope and will as well as luck. How many girls called Bridget survive after all? It is about love, the love of a mother and grandfather in a hostile society. It is most of all about the capacity to fight. Fight for the survival of a twitching baby who can neither suck nor crawl nor later walk. Fight for a person to be called human even if all the odds seem against it because of a traditional belief system.

Those around her in her local society mumble: Isn t sh...

Truely amazing stories told by Ghanaian men who ventured over land or sea in search for a better future. They cross the Sahara desert to Libya where jobs are available if you accept the insults that go with them. Then on into shaky boats for Europe...

Stories by Ghanaian emigrants that you can feel in all their raw resiliance and beautiful sense of humor.