You enter as you are, carrying your habits, your trust, and your shortcuts. The path looks ordinary. Free Wi-Fi hums. Messages arrive. Links ask to be opened. Then the ground shifts. Access slows. Conversations stall. Eyes you cannot see begin to follow your steps. In this walk, you move through the same digital terrain many Africans cross each day, where the road is never straight and danger does not announce itself. Each choice you make opens a way forward or tightens the snare. Along the journey, you meet tools and allies shaped for these conditions, offering ways to pass without noise, to speak without exposure, and to remain present when networks harden against you. This is not a lesson spoken at you. It is an experience lived with your body and your judgment, showing how survival online is learned not by theory, but by walking, choosing, stumbling, and finding safe passage where it still exists.