Edith Blais and her Italian companion, captured in Burkina Faso in 2018, made a daring dash for freedom 450 days later. She tells sheilaflynn her story.
When approached by one man, “I wanted to shake his hand, but he offered me his elbow instead,” Ms Blais writes in her new book about her incredible escape,“Some African handshake, perhaps? In any case, it confused me so much that I burst out laughing,” she writes.
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