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The other side of truth is a novel about Nigerian political refugees written by Beverley Naidoo and published in 2000.

Though the book is written in the first person singular , the reader is immersed in a deeply moving story through the character of a young 12 year old girl : Sade Solaja .

His courage and his gift to imagine a lot of things to keep a minimum of hope make it a character that it is impossible not to get attached .

She tells her story and the reader devours .

She begins by talking about a painful memory , a ... or two sounds : those issued by the shots that ended the life of his mother.

Throughout the work, the memory haunts her thoughts and in her dreams , like her mother's voice whose words continue to impart wisdom and comfort.

But it remains to Sade family including his father, a man whom we can blame the death of his wife.

Indeed, Folarin Solaja is a journalist who has not his tongue in his pocket.

It is that part of a non- censored newspaper, only the Nigerian government does not allow freedom of speech .

Therefore he received threats before which he unfortunately does not yielded, and causing the death of his wife and endangering his family.

The situation faced by Solaja pushes Uncle Tunde , a great lawyer in the country to infinite resources to intervene.

The latter managed to convince Folarin to her daughter and her son , a boy of 10 years of passionate football, safe in England.

The Solaja are thus forced to pack their belongings and leave suddenly and secretly .

For this, they need help because they can not leave without blankets.

Then comes Mrs. Bankole , a Nigerian suspect and a woman, I must admit , despicable.

Sade and her younger brother Femi pose children Yemi and Ade and fly to London.

Once there , while they wait for their Uncle Dele Solaja after suffering a search that will lead to the destruction of luggage Sade by his mother, Dele does not show because it fails to get to the airport to pick them up.

Ms. Bankole abandons to Victoria Station and they must fend for themselves.

They have no money and no contact apart from their uncle who can not be found .

So they start to roam the streets in search of art school where Dele works .

They eventually get help and take the bus to the workplace of their uncle .

They ask Dr. Solaja but it is not at school.

At nightfall , they find refuge in a video but vandals attacking , scary brother and sister.

The owner surprised the thugs but takes young immigrants to vandals also .

Calls on the authorities .

The eleventh chapter opens with a flashback in which a police officer is violent with Mr Solaja .

Quickly, the flashback ends and the story continues with Sade and Femi at the video store .

Two police arrive and question them but fear of endangering her father , the young remain silent in the face to the police before revealing the half-truth .

Children are taken to the police .

New flashback , students were slaughtered and Folarin has pictures of the massacre publish that which led to his arrest .

A Robert appeared , the children go to a foster family.

Ms. Graham , the woman is remarkable.

She is very understanding and caring with Sade and Femi .

His son, Kevin, is not very friendly to newcomers but still shows his room boy.

Ms. Graham meanwhile shows Sade her new room she shares with her brother and she offers him a t -shirt.

The new chapter begins with Sade that bears his school bag .

She hears a car and tires squealing .

Suddenly, she sees her mother on the ground with outstretched hand and bloodied body .

That's when the girl wakes up from his nightmare screaming , waking her adoptive mother hurries to calm her.

The next day, Sade meets a woman of color in her new home : Jenny , a relatively nice social worker who will try to help children.

Jenny raises many questions and Sade responds with a mixture of truth and lies (we later learned that the teenager also has promised not to tell anyone anything until his father would not be safe in London) .

Once the social worker part , the children try to reach them by phone their native country but in vain.

Children end up in a refugee center , they will go to school, but they will be separated .

Sade is worried because she knows she will meet again and again to questions and she is also concerned because his little brother is not happy and made some crises.

Thereafter, they meet the Kings , another family from Jamaica.

They get along well and the Kings continue to do anything for the kids to go well .

On his first day , Sade meets several people but is aware that most are not very nice , especially Marcia scares Sade.

She gives him so chilling that night the girl has trouble getting to sleep .

At school , the horrible Marcia blames Sade stealing homework and home, Femi refuses to talk to him, he claims to hate .