Will Ferguson has published 14 books ranging from travel adventure to literary fiction, and won the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 419.  He is a screenwriting and film production graduate from the York University Film School. As a teenager, he lived and worked in Ecuador as part of CWY (roughly equivalent to the Peace Corps). His travels have taken him from Indonesia to Argentina. In 2010, he was named the head writer on the Vancouver Olympics Closing Ceremonies, penning material for the likes of William Shatner, Martin Short and Michael J. Fox. He lives in Calgary with his wife Terumi and their two young sons.

Road Trip Rwanda

Twenty years after the genocide that left Rwanda in ruins, Will Ferguson travels deep into the once-mysterious “Land of a Thousand Hills” with his friend and cohort Jean-Claude Munyezamu, a man who escaped Rwanda just months before the killings began. From the legendary source of the Nile to Dian Fossey’s famed “gorillas in the mist,” from innovative refugee camps along the Congolese border to the world’s most escapable prison, from tragic genocide sites to open savannahs and a bridge to freedom, from schoolyard soccer pitches to a cunning plan to get rich on passion fruit.  In the travel monologue Road Trip Rwanda, Ferguson and Munyezamu discover a country reborn.

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