Rat roads One man's incredible journey

'My whole life I had to travel on these panya roads,' Kennedy says. 'It's a Swahili word that means rat roads, and it is those little paths that you take in order not to be seen and to stay alive. That's how I've survived.'

In this extraordinary book, celebrated journalist Jacques Pauw gives a human face to some of the most tumultuous events in recent African history. Rat Roads chronicles the remarkable journey of Kennedy Gihana, a young Tutsi man who survived the genocide in Rwanda, committed horrifying atrocities in Africa's bloodiest civil war and walked thousands of kilometers to South Africa, where he slept in parks, lived as a street child and worked as a low-paid security guard until he had saved enough money to enroll for a law degree. In 2011 he took the podium at the University of Pretoria to receive a master's degree in law.