Dances with Devils

For more than a decade, Jacques Pauw has traversed his native continent in pursuit of warlords and drug traffickers, child soldiers and charlatans, adventure and anarchy. What he found was a rich array of personalities and stories, ranging from the profoundly tragic to the intensely personal. Pauw's accounts range from South Africa to Rwanda, from Sierra Leone and the Sudan to Nigeria and Mozambique. With compassion, humour and occasional cynicism, he takes readers behind the scenes of sensational news reports, and finds fresh ways to present time-honoured tales of love, life, misery and mortality, proving that something new always comes out of Africa.