ROAD OF AGONY: BASED ON TRUE ACCOUNT

Non-fiction adventurous book


In many parts of Africa, the passport doesn't mean anything to the immigration officer. They are looking for travellers without a passport to generate some money, thus, holding a passport provokes them.


Like the scene of a movie, Babatunde is kidnapped by thieves in army uniform. They were looking for money since he has a bag they thought there was money in it. Over three decades the marks he received from the beatings he had from corrupt army officials can be traced to his body.

Road of Agony", is a marvel of humane, sorrowful and lucid account, in a sharper clearer image of understanding, of how corruption is within the police, border control officers and the army in Africa. The writer has given the truest account of what happened to him, written in a startling manner as an African writer.


THE AUTHOR

Joel Savage was born in Cape Coast, in the central region of Ghana, on January 19,1957. He had his secondary school at both Ebenezer Secondary School and Accra High School in Accra, Ghana. In 1985, while living in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he became a naturalized citizen, therefore losing his nationality as a Ghanaian.

In his lifetime, he was much influenced by his father, who was a veteran journalist. His father's influence propelled his flair for writing at a very tender age. At school, he wrote numerous articles for publication. After secondary school, he followed a course at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, in Accra, to acquire more experience and writing skills.

As a freelance writer, Joel wrote feature articles for the Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times and Weekly Spectator, in Accra, Ghana, for a certain period. He became a Belgium naturalized citizen in 2008. 

He is now a prolific writer and accredited card-holding member of the "Vlaamse Journalisten Vereniging" Flemish Journalist Association, in Belgium. 

He lives in Antwerp, Belgium, with wife and three children, where he freelances for newspapers, magazines, and television.

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THE WRITER DIED : A NOVEL BY JOEL SAVAGE

A true account based on the life of a journalist

Child Neglect relates to the failure to provide a child’s basic needs. In Europe and America, there are organizations that assist in solving such problems or taking care of neglected children. In many parts of Africa, the story is entirely different. 


This is an emotional, touching and inspirational story of a young boy who finds himself in a similar situation.

Kumbe finds himself in a hostile environment, as a victim of divorce and neglect. An environment he witnesses the suffering and hustling his mother goes through to feed him. 

He was unhappy because his father was neglecting his family, spending his fortune on other women. He sees his adolescence as a struggle to win the support of his father.

At school, he was among the best students. This gives him the inspiration to fight to educate himself. In a confused society, Kumbe spends a better part of his life visiting the library, reading and studying. 

Despite daily horrendous life he passes through, Kumbe excels to be an outstanding journalist and writer. 

He was attached to the president of his native country, Ghana, with enormous enthusiasm and optimism. However, in his life as a famous journalist, his fame gives him nothing but hatred, jealousy, and blackmail from an empire of deceitful enemies.

He stands strong and firm, destined to fight the cruel charismatic power of those forces haunting him. But they are stronger than him. Despite his wife’s moral and material support, Kumbe surrenders and dies mysteriously. 

Who and what killed him? “The Writer Died” is a truly remarkable book of hard life experience of child neglect, an indispensable and inspiring book for anyone that may find himself in a similar situation.

The writer tries to define, measure, classify and understand what child neglect is like in Africa.

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BEWARE: DORRANCE AND ROSEDOG, PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

Dorrance and RoseDog are some of the criminals in the book publishing industry

PLEASE LET'S FIGHT TO MAKE THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY FREE FROM FRAUD. IT'S A SHAME THAT THIS PUBLISHER CALLED DORRANCE AND ANOTHER SISTER PUBLISHER CALLED ROSEDOG PUBLISHERS ARE SOILING OR DEGRADING THE GOOD NAME OF THOSE GOOD PUBLISHERS OUT THERE.

THEY STOLE OVER THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM ME AND FAILED TO PUBLISH MY TWO BOOKS. LET'S FIGHT AGAINST CRIME. PLEASE KEEP AWAY FROM THESE PUBLISHERS. THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS IN THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY.

Instead of handing your manuscript to these publishing criminals, I will advise you either to do self-publishing at Amazon.com, Barnes, and Noble or Createspace.

Read this:

DORRANCE AND ROSEDOG PUBLISHERS EXPOSED - Never be tempted to go into their net

'CURSE', IF YOU DESERVE IT, YOU CAN'T ESCAPE IT

One can't escape a curse if you deserve it

"Curse," the call for evil to come on person or thing but does it really work? Wickedness and violence, now rule this world. Therefore, can a victim of a painful incidences’ curse take effect on the one who was responsible for his or her misery? Yes, it can.

The Holy Bible speaks about the curse, and truly if one deserves it,  you can never escape the wrath of a curse pronounced on you. The disastrous effect of curse on people is not commonly seen in advanced countries. 

But in countries where poverty is very strong, you can’t just steal your neighbor's goat, sheep, cat or property, with impunity from a curse.

There are hundreds of mad people in many Third World countries. If you investigate the circumstances leading most of those people to be in that condition, you will be amazed. The Bible writes, after the cure of Naaman from leprosy, Elisha refused to take any gift from him.

Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, secretly followed Naaman and collected the gifts, saying his master was too easy. God revealed to Elisha what his servant had done. 

When Gehazi returned to his master, he said to him “Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and your descendants forever.

Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and he was leprous as white as snow. That is the effect of a curse. Gehazi deserves it for the wrong he did, that was the reason he couldn’t escape it. 

One mustn’t think this was just a Biblical story, in this case, it doesn’t mean anything.

If you don’t believe in a ‘curse’ just keep it in your mind, but please don’t try it by causing harm or stealing someone’s property, to test if a curse could affect you. 

If the victim pronounces his or her curse on you, there wouldn’t be any room to escape. 

A curse is like a fit of spiritual anger that cannot be seen. No matter where you are if you deserve it, you can never escape it.

DORRANCE AND ROSEDOG PUBLISHERS EXPOSED - Never be tempted to go into their net

Dorrance publishing is a criminal organization



Thanks to the media and the effectiveness of the internet, as a medium, to convey messages and warnings to people. As an amateur writer, with an ambition to publish my work, I made a grave mistake, which cost me over $3000, without the books. 


After finding the right publisher, through experienced writers and those associated with publishing, I am now happy and would like to publish my story, so that no one would ever make the mistake I did.

I saw a publisher called 'Dorrance' soliciting for manuscripts on the internet. Without much knowledge about their background as 'vanity or subsidy publisher' or 'Ghoul publisher' that is they don't feed on the dead, but the living, I gave them two manuscripts. 

There is no package on the website. They will tell you to make an initial payment of $500. After that comes the original package of $8.100, to be paid within a period of twenty-three months.

I wasn't happy about this. I, therefore, contacted a well known female expert in book publishing and she asked me to cancel the contract. She has a reason. According to her, what is stated in the Dorrance contract is never done. 

They only used it as a bait to lure or encourage the submission of manuscripts. Moreover, they don't even have shops to sell their books as vanity publishers.

I believed her. An associate of Dorrance called Mr. Andrew Rouce, whom I made the payment to, asked me to make an appointment online to speak to me. I followed his instructions and made the appointment, but no one called me. 

This is evidence number one of what kind of publisher Dorrance is, which the book expert was talking about.

My two manuscripts are already with Dorrance. After the cancellation of the contract of $8.100, Mr. Rouce introduced another publisher called 'RoseDog', to me. 

Both my two manuscripts were transferred to RoseDog publishers. After making a full payment of $2.155, plus $40 additional cost for the postage of three copies of books, the six months period the book supposed to come out, as said by Mr. Rouce had expired, yet I have paid $1.133 for the second manuscript.

They asked me to finish up the payment of the second manuscript and I said to them that it's not going to be possible since the first book which I have finished the payment hasn't come out, therefore there is no way I will continue paying for the second script. 

They were infuriated by my decision and they thought the best punishment for me was to take the book that I have finished its payment hostage.

They refused every communication with me. I was compelled to find another publisher and make another payment on print on demand (POD) contract. 

Dorrance received my cancellation of the contract letter and referred part of their contract to me as a breach and forfeited all the amount I have invested in my books.

I am not worried at all for losing this amount because I wouldn't have got anything as royalty from such a publisher. They are simply criminals within the publishing industry. Just imagine a publisher, requesting me to provide names of two hundred friends to buy my books. 

They wanted to make money again at my expense. The most important message, I want to convey to the public is "Dorrance and RoseDog publishers' are birds of the same feathers, flocking together, "PLEASE NEVER BE TEMPTED TO GO INTO THEIR NET".

You can read hundreds of negative comments about 'Dorrance' on the internet. If you, I and others will join hands together and campaign against such publishers, the publishing industry would be somehow better from frauds like that of Dorrance and RoseDog. 

Don't say that you don't care, because it didn't happen to you. It may happen to your brother, sister, neighbour or friend.

Just keep away from them. The comments of previous writers they had published their books and posted at their websites are all false. They use them to counter-attack the war against them as bad publishers.

I don't have anything to lose, therefore, the campaign against Dorrance and RoseDog, as criminals within the publishing industry will continue unabated.

AFTER FACEBOOK, COMES FUCBOOK. WHAT'S NEXT?

Love comes naturally



The weakness of Adam, to resist the temptation from eating the forbidden fruit, after being lured by Eve, according to the Bible, is now what dating sites dwell on, using women as bait, to make thousands of money from men worldwide.


All over the internet, dating websites are springing up like mushrooms in the bush. They are extremely intelligent on how to let the men, those I will call the weak ones, succumbed to their knees, by displaying the most beautiful ladies at the sites as bait.

You will see on dating websites "Hundred percent free. Absolute free, register now". Before the end of the registration, you will be confronted by the request of methods of payments, ranging from visa to PayPal. Here, an intelligent man should know immediately that this is a money-making website, yet many ignore it.

For some time now I have been receiving e-mail messages from a dating website calling itself 'Fucbook.' Obviously, this site was built from a stolen idea of 'Facebook', the social network. The advert reads

"There are MILLIONS of horny woman (women) waiting to have sex. These woman(women) are easily searchable and available in your area. We can make it any easier to get laid every day of the week." Finally, they concluded with, "Join FUCBOOK Right now for free and tap into unlimited SEX, no matter where you live.

The question is, when is a man going to show to the world that he is not weak and stupid, as everyone thinks, to prevent the building of these scams and fraudulent dating sites? Surely, I know that I can 'face a book', because of my thirst for wisdom, unfortunately, I can't 'fuck a book', because I don't know how to do that.

GREAT BRITAIN. WHAT MAKES THIS COUNTRY TO BE GREAT?

Many British teenagers live on alcohol in Britain

Frankly speaking, during my primary school education in Africa, I became fascinated with the country called 'Great Britain." Because travelers who had visited that country and those ready to go to London, demonstrate certain things that make them elites. 

Truly, one is always given a special welcome, recognition, and attention in Africa, when he or she just returns from Britain.


When I arrived in Europe in 1986, what I used to read from their newspapers, pushed me to find out what events or historical facts made this country to be called 'Great Britain. 

Even though there is much crime in Africa, I believe in Europe, Britain leads to criminal activities. Forgery, scams, falsification of documents and letters with the intention to defraud, credit card frauds, embezzlement, stealing and rape are what make headlines in Britain.

Many people think the Dutch are stingy but Britain is number one when it comes to stinginess. The whole world knows about this. They can't even leave a cent or penny behind for a cleaner when they lodge at hotels. 

It was in Northampton, Britain, I saw two sisters quarreling over a can of Coca-Cola, what  I never witnessed in Africa, a Third World Country. Teenage pregnancy and alcoholism make headlines.

In fashion, Britain. comes last. Even though they are famous fashion shops, the British dress shabbily. They wore poor inferior shoes. Obesity is taking its toll on them. 

The police can't handle and cope up with the surging waves of crime in the country. Stealing vehicles is on the rise. The country still drives on the wrong side of the road. 

The salary scale for general workers is very low. People rush in and out from underground stations as if the devil is chasing them.

I read recently that Britain undercover police are allowed to sleep with women they spy on, as a source to gather information. Who is the police boss in that country? 

Is that the right way to gather information during an investigation?  To sleep with women as a source for information gathering, during an investigation is a crime.

Maybe I'm completely wrong. But I don't see anything great about this country. I believe it's one of the restless countries to live in the world. Wages are paid weekly and all bills are paid weekly. 

Many people are roaming roofless and drug addiction has taken its toll on many. Great Britain? Not at all, it's 'Hell Britain.'

WHO IS A RACIST? EVERY ONE IS A RACIST

An angry policeman shows anger to a Blackman 


The Blackman said to the Whiteman that "you are a racist," and the Whiteman also said to the Blackman that "you are a racist." This became more interesting than a common argument.

Nobody is prepared to be called a racist. The question is, who at all is a racist? Racism, the claim of superiority of skin against another person, is something that can't be eradicated but can be reduced.

 

When one talks about racism, every attention goes to the Whiteman, because the Whiteman is the one people point fingers at as being racist.

 

Frankly speaking, some Blacks are more racist than the Whiteman. Again racism is an act that is with everyone.

 

Why do some people hate others because of sexual preference? Why do people hate other people because of religious preference?

 

The Flemish don't like the Walloons in Belgium. "We don't want them to come and live in our society and ruin our culture."

 

What a racist comment made by a Flemish politician against the Walloons. The Italians hate the Albanians. I don't see this only as discrimination but also racism.

 

The African is accusing Whiteman of being racist but when you go to Africa, you will learn how they hate themselves over there.

 

The Yoruba man hates an Igbo man in Nigeria, a Fanti hates an Ashanti in Ghana, a Hutu hates Tutsi in Rwanda, and a Creole man hates the Temini man in Sierra Leone.

 

If the Africans hate themselves why then do they accuse the Whiteman of racism? Nobody is racist or in my opinion, everyone is a racist.

 

If people will understand, respect, and value other people regarding the color of their skin, religion, or sexual preference, the world will be a peaceful place to live. Let God judge, don't judge.