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

Will Ferguson
4.23
869 ratings 142 reviews
From the Giller Prize-winning author of 419 comes the season's much-anticipated travel memoir     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 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.
Genres: NonfictionTravelAfricaMemoirCanadaHistoryRwandaBook ClubBiographyAdventure
368 Pages

Community Reviews:

5 star
380 (44%)
4 star
338 (39%)
3 star
121 (14%)
2 star
27 (3%)
1 star
3 (0%)

Readers also enjoyed

Other books by Will Ferguson

Lists with this book

Fifteen Dogs
The Scorpion Rules
The Heart Goes Last
CanLit 2015
109 books36 voters
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Shake Hands with the Devil
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Books on Rwanda genocide
89 books101 voters
Things Fall Apart
The Poisonwood Bible
Half of a Yellow Sun
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1741 books1603 voters
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
The Poisonwood Bible
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Central Africa
109 books71 voters