Bishop Ochei Innocent

Hundred Dangerous Days on African Roads Bishop Ochei Innocent

ABOUT THE BOOKTRAVELLING IN SUCH PERILIOUS TIMES AS THESEThis is a tale about travelling in perilous times. This is about risks that missionaries face every day. This is a tale of what travelers experience as they explore. This is fact. Not fiction. A cross country across some killing fields!It can be difficult traveling with an American anywhere these days. He is like a gold fish without a hiding place. Except in the Lord! Talk about wars, terrorism and kidnappings here and there. Talk about a world in which there is ISIS, Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, bandits and other criminals of different shades. In some countries, crime has become the norm and foreigners are among the prime targets. If in doubt of the dangers, consult the uncountable travel warnings and advices mushrooming these days from American embassies in other nations. Indeed, these days, missionaries travel generally on edge. If your belongings are not stolen, you could be as a person. However, there is a proverb in my place that says though River Niger drowns even accomplished swimmers regularly, we will continue to swim and fish in the river! Not because we have no fear but because fish has no life out of water!Otherwise, I too would neither be traveling nor hosting any other missionary be they foreign or indigenous to Africa! Why? I am sure you will not be asking me why soon because in further chapters, I tell how our guest was diverted from us for twenty-four hours and if not for high intelligence gathering and prayers, we would have been in a mess!Roland Stone, forty-five, tall, brown almost red, from Minnesota, USA is one of the fish that decided to brave the odds. He came at a time when most persons prefer to stay at home and eat the bread of safety!However, when you talk about missionaries, Roland is a special case. Travelling with this particular man became something else on many fronts. To start with; as a diabetic patient, Roland needed special food we could not afford. Normally, a missionary expects to eat what people in the mission field are eating unless it is out rightly poisonous. Roland was ordering like a prince at a five-star restaurant. But that is neither here nor there.