Eyo, an illiterate 10-year-old girl is trafficked to the UK with promises of a better life. The novel follows her five year journey as a domestic servant and eventual sex slave in the UK, her attempts to escape and her journey around the UK as she’s passed from one human trafficker to another. Eventually, she is rescued, only to realise that in even in freedom society demands an exacting price from those it should protect.

The novel starts with Eyo's life in one of Nigeria’s most notorious slums and follows her journey from Lagos, Nigeria to the UK. She's put to work immediately by her abductors who beat and threaten her daily to keep her pliable. She is an illiterate, illegal immigrant with no family, friends nor means of escape. How does she escape? Who can she turn to for help and how does she endure?

Find out in Eyo, shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa's Best Book).

"One of the remarkable aspects of the entries was the high number that concentrated on human trafficking and migration. The most striking of such novels [was] Eyo by Abidemi Sanusi (Nigeria)... the panel of judges was struck by the way slavery, in new guises, has come to speak powerfully of the plight of a generation of Africans who have come of age at a time of destitution, political repression and out-migration—a time when home is all too often quite unhomely."

Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Africa Region judges' statement.

Eyo is published in Kenya by WordAlive. It is not yet available in the UK, however, limited copies are available for sale, from the Shop. Eyo, the ebook, is available from Amazon and all major etailers.