Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa

About this book

Hope lives in Africa. Twenty years after the genocide that left Rwanda in ruins Giller Prize-winning author Will Ferguson travels deep into the once-mysterious "Land of a Thousand Hills" with his friend and cohort Jean-Claude Munyezamu a man who escaped Rwanda just months before the killings began. From the legendary Source of the Nile to Dian Fosseys famed "gorillas in the mist " from innovative refugee camps along the Congolese border to the worlds most escapable prison from tragic genocide sites to open savannahs and a bridge to freedom from schoolyard soccer pitches to a cunning plan to get rich on passion fruit Ferguson and Munyezamu discover a country reborn. Funny engaging poignant and at times heartbreaking Road Trip Rwanda is the lively tale of two friends the open road and the hidden heart of a continent. From the Hardcover edition.