Dying to Live: A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across by Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga,Phil Taylor,Casey Roberts

By Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga,Phil Taylor,Casey Roberts

Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga used to be a historical past instructor in Kigali while he was once compelled to escape to the neighbouring Congo (Zaïre) together with his spouse and 3 little ones. hence begun a harrowing five-year voyage of 9781926824789 low ressurvival within which they travelled millions of kilometers strolling from one refugee camp to a different. missing nutrients and water, they have been usually robbed, occasionally raped yet have been always pursued and bombed by means of shadowy Rwandan-backed armed infantrymen with refined guns and aerial surveillance details. He and his relatives have been one of the greater than 300 thousand refugees who, for the main half, didn't live on to inform their story.

Dying To reside is an ode to the human potential to outlive opposed to all odds. Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga brilliantly and touchingly tells a narrative that has been silenced for too lengthy. it's going to support fix the humanity and the proper to mourn to thousands of Rwandans dispersed during the world.

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