Table of Contents1. Village Life2. Kill the Cockroaches3. Searching for Sanctuary4. The Sound of Machetes5. By the Light of the Bonfire6. Taken into Slavery7. The Refugee Camp8. Returning to Gasharu9. Starting School10. Given Permission to tell my Story11. High School12. Deciding to become a Killer13. The Congolese Doctor14. The Gacaca Courts15. Falling in Love16. University Life17. Tears in Geneva18. Meeting the Professor19. A Master's at Bristol20. Talking at Harvard21. Reconciling with the PastA memoir of a boy who survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.This is the shocking and inspirational memoir of a boy who survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. When he was seven years old Hyppolite lost many members of his extended family and witnessed the murder of his beloved father. Born in a mud hut without shoes, water or power and often hungry, he struggled after the genocide to gain an education and to learn to forgive the killers. By the age of thirty he had graduated from university in Rwanda and worked as a journalist and radio presenter, a playwright and a theatre director. He raised enough money to travel to England and achieved a Masters Degree in Sociology from Bristol University. He started a Foundation for Peace in Rwanda and travelled to America to deliver a series of lectures at universities along the East Coast of America, including Harvard, using theatre to address issues of hatred and racism being transmitted from one generation to the next, looking from the perspective of a genocide survivor, who was also a sociologist and an artist, at how we influence people’s attitudes to change. In 2019, Hyppolite became an international news item when he performed a hundred-day walk across 1,500 kilometres of Rwanda to mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide, inviting people to join him and to share their stories of peace and forgiveness.This is the shocking and inspirational memoir of a boy who survived the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. When he was seven years old Hyppolite lost many members of his extended family and witnessed the murder of his beloved father. Born in a mud hut without shoes, water or power and often hungry, he struggled after the genocide to gain an education and to learn to forgive the killers. By the age of thirty he had graduated from university in Rwanda and worked as a journalist and radio presenter, a playwright and a theatre director. He raised enough money to travel to England and achieved a Masters Degree in Sociology from Bristol University. He started a Foundation for Peace in Rwanda and travelled to America to deliver a series of lectures at universities along the East Coast of America, including Harvard, using theatre to address issues of hatred and racism being transmitted from one generation to the next, looking from the perspective of a genocide survivor, who was also a sociologist and an artist, at how we influence people’s attitudes to change. In 2019, Hyppolite became an international news item when he performed a hundred-day walk across 1,500 kilometres of Rwanda to mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide, inviting people to join him and to share their stories of peace and forgiveness.