Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy – Physician, Politician and Instructor – is out to confirm his reputation also as an Author come April end when his second book, The Drug Invasion of West Africa leaves the publishers and goes on sale.
The 204-page fictional work but based largely on a lot of historical truths, is Arthur Kennedy’s attempt at sounding the alarm bell on the narcotics trade and its debilitating implications particularly for Africa.
While it focuses on the sub-region and delves deeply into why pushers of European and American-bound narcotics find accommodating transit points in West African frontiers – The Drug Invasion of West Africa does not shy away from the global picture and paints vividly the destructive effects of the menace and leaves no doubts why 250 million of the world’s population abuse the ‘illegal’ substances and 25 million are addicted.
Published by Outskirtspress, Colorado, USA, [ISBN: 978-1-4327-8669-4] the 29 chapters of the book each deals with real life cases from one drug-famed hotspot to another in a manner so tempting for one to forget or even reject Dr. Kennedy’s labeling of his work as fictional – except some of the interesting names he coins for the chapters such as Cape Dedamia and Republic of Segura where Ghanaian readers may want to dwell for insights into some of the evil deeds the beloved country stomachs under the cover of darkness.
From Matamoros to Mexico to The Hague, Netherlands, (some of the chapters in the book), the many perspectives, including real life stories such as encounters with patients in hospitals are, in the words of the author, aimed at informing and provoking readers as well as entertaining them. And hopefully, distant watchers of this canker of our times can do with the many lessons.
The Drug Invasion of West Africa should be available soon at major bookshops and through amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.
