16 published books after, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa achieves definitive fame as a writer with this novel, a story set in Africa, a continent that he knows very well and to which he transports us in an incomparable way with all its beauty and wildness.

Ashanti tells the story of a young couple, a European photographer and a beautiful African woman educated at the Sorbonne, who is brutally kidnapped in Chad on their honeymoon and sold as a slave. Her husband then undertakes a desperate search throughout the African continent in a race against time.

Under the dramatic light of Africa, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa lays bare the cruelest and noblest inclinations of the human being in a shocking story that will penetrate under the skin of the reader, leaving an indelible mark.

This novel is a tribute to the members of the extinct "White Squad" and is based on authentic data released by members of the United Nations Commission for the Abolition of Slavery and the Anti-Slavery Society in London, investigations carried out by the own author in Central Africa.