Road Trip Rwanda
CBC Books | Posted: April 19, 2017 12:31 PM | Last Updated: June 26, 2018
Will Ferguson
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 Fossey's famed "gorillas in the mist," from innovative refugee camps along the Congolese border to the world's 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 Penguin Canada)
From the book
As trucks roll by, the bridge bounces with a disconcerting sproinginess.
"I remember that!" Jean-Claude says with a sudden smile. "I remember it bouncing. I thought it was just my imagination!"
He has never seen this bridge before, though he remembers it well. When he crossed twenty years ago, he was hiding under coffee sacks in the back of a transport truck.
"What would they have done?" I ask. "If they had caught you?"
"Oh," he says. "They would have killed me."
From Road Trip Rwanda by Will Ferguson ©2015. Published by Penguin Canada.