I, Eric Ngalle

Written & narrated by Eric Ngalle

Length

8h 11m

"I, Eric Ngalle is the memoir of a migrant. Ngalle left Cameron as a 17 year old full of hope, with a scholarship to study economics at a university in Belgium. Scammed by the agent who was supposed to help him, he ended up in Moscow, without visa, money or friends, where he spent two terrifying years before arriving – miraculously, through a series of extraordinary chances and knife edge choices – in the UK and settling in Cardiff. I, Eric Ngalle weaves together an account – all the most devastating to read for the seeming simplicity of its telling – of the time in Moscow with memories of Ngalle’s childhood and teenage years in a village in Cameroon – more poetic, lyrical, infused with longing and nostalgia, but suggestive of the many different kinds of exile that we can experience."