This book presents the challenging life story of an Eritrean academic. It mirrors the political developments in Eritrea, and it reflects the dire conditions that he and other Eritreans faced in the diaspora by vividly describing his journey through Egypt, Germany, and Libya, back to Eritrea. Due to political repression, he finally had to return to exile in Norway. The author portrays the violent clashes that occurred in the Eritrean highlands during the 1950s, and life in the western lowlands in the borderland to Sudan prior to the independence struggle. Abdulkader's life journey mirrors the tragic political developments, the challenges, but also the resilience of Eritreans over the past seven decades.