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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Dying to Live

A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across the Congo

by (author) Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga

translated by Casey Roberts

preface by Phil Taylor

Publisher
Baraka Books
Initial publish date
Jun 2013
Category
Personal Memoirs, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781926824789
    Publish Date
    Jun 2013
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926824833
    Publish Date
    Jun 2013
    List Price
    $15.99

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Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was teaching history in Kigali, Rwanda, when he was forced to flee to the neighboring Congo with his wife and three children. Thus began a harrowing five-year voyage of survival during which they travelled thousands of miles on foot from one refugee camp to another. Lacking food and water, they were often robbed, sometimes raped, and constantly pursued and bombed by shadowy armed soldiers with sophisticated weapons and aerial surveillance information. This brilliant and touching book is the story of one family among the more than 300,000 refugees—many of whom did not survive. For those wishing to understand the war in the Congo, this must-read will restore the humanity and the right to mourn for hundreds of thousands of Rwandans dispersed throughout the world.

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Phil Taylor hosts CIUT’s flagship program the Taylor Report broadcast weekly on Mondays at 5 p.m. in the Toronto area or online at www.taylor-report.com. Originally from California, he is particularly interested in the American Civil War and its links to Canada. Phil Taylor lives in Toronto.

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