Agya Wusu’s Journey – Surviving the Mediterranean Crossing
Agya Wusu, a Ghanaian now living in Belgium, shared his harrowing journey from Ghana to Europe in an interview with DJ Nyaami on SVTV Africa’s Daily Hustle Worldwide Show.
In 2023, he left Ghana on a direct flight to Morocco through the help of an agent. “When we arrived, the police arrested us, but the agent paid them off, and we continued,” he recalled. At the Moroccan embassy, he and hundreds of others pretended to be footballers seeking visas.
From Morocco, the plan was to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Spain. He described how 65 of them were taken through the desert to the seashore under military guard. “At the beach, we were kept overnight by four soldiers until morning. Then we were put in a rubber boat to cross,” he narrated.
But tragedy struck when their boat hit a rock. “Eight people, including Ghanaians, fell into the sea and drowned. One man told me he saw a young girl dead in the water. My brother-in-law’s brother was among those who died. To this day, his family doesn’t know because my brother-in-law can’t bring himself to tell them,” he revealed.
Many others never made it, and about 600 migrants are still stranded in Morocco. Wusu himself spent two and a half days at sea before reaching Spain, where he sought asylum. Later, he moved to Belgium.
“In total, I spent about €8,000 on the journey. Many people died, but I survived. Life in Europe is better than Ghana, but crossing the sea is a destroyed path,” he said.
Today, while some of his companions remain stuck or working on farms in Spain, Wusu counts himself fortunate to be alive.
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