Article: Hot sauce a recipe for freedom

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By Camille Bains

VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia man's fiery brand of award-winning hot sauce is spicing up North American palates and revealing an intriguing tale of his road to freedom.

Edmond Segbeaya landed in Nelson, B.C., five years ago after a decade-long diversion in Germany.

Segbeaya, now 41, fled to Germany without his wife and twin daughters after taking part in student demonstrations against a military dictatorship in his homeland of Togo, Africa.

Segbeaya's wife Clementine eventually joined him in Germany, where they found themselves holed up in a church and later a monastery in the town of Fuessen as they sought asylum.

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