Nelson is a young man from bamenda in the north west region of Cameroon who was kidnapped by the military secret service of cameroon. During the anglophone war which started in 2016. sengla was force to relocate to the francophone town of nkongsamba in the litoral region due to the intensity anglophone .
The anglophone war that recorded a death toll of 50,000 civilian and up to 5,00 combatants, was the highest war that have been fought since Cameroon gain her independent as a 2 state federation from Britain and france in 1960 and 1961 respectively. Nelson exclaim, "it was teriffying the day i saw a direct confrontation between the seperatist fighters and the government forces in a small town call ndop. It was on Christmas eve at about 11pm at night when the seperatist fighters attacked a military vehèicle patroling in a quater call long street. The attakers came in thier numbers. That night, he was out with some of his quarter friends, because his family live in ndop so h came to spend sometime with them. It was really fun that night till the seperetist fighters attack , he had to slept on the floor with my brother drake and my girlfriend tina . The sounds of the guns makes me feels like the world was coming to an end, i was scared to dead . And the battle lasted for 5hours and both sides witnesses enormous casualties".
The next day which was the 25th December nelson spend the day at home with his mother; kinyuy his step silings ; kilo, nani ange drake and his girl friend tina. The memory of the bloody night couldn't go off my head as i keep on imagining how copses were lying on the road and blood spilled everywhere in the street. That Christmas was the worse chrismas i have ever celebrated in my life.
After the the chrismas feast, nelson travel back to bamenda where he live with his grandmother. Her grandmother sells food in a motel call sam soya. In bamenda the war was not more intensify as in other parts of the region, but the seperatist fighters usually come and attack in town ocationally. I can remember one day at the bamenda main market , i went to buy some food stuffs and the seperatist fighters attacked and kill 4 police men who were guiding a bank call ccc bank.
That day i came back home and my mind couldn't rest, because everyday either civilians are kill or seperatist fighters are kill or the military are killed. I couldn't bare the trauma anymore. I talk to my self "Nelson if you remain in this war zone with all this rampant killing , you may be the next to go, so you need a plan B .
Nelson decided to travel but he never know where to go. He called two of his uncles Franklin and Kingsley to ask if they can accommodate him and they accept.