In her autobiography, Patricia Bamurangirwa candidly tells the story of how she fought back after she was torn between her culture, her family, her pride and her rights at a very young age.
Like many African girls in the 1950s, discover why Patricia missed out on higher education among other opportunities. But even when she was no longer able to stay in Rwanda and she grew up with anger and many questions, she never stopped fighting for what she believed in.
Find out how Patricia escaped becoming a prostitute, even though she was in their hands for four years. Discover how she managed to take care of seven children as a single mother. Later in life find out what Europe, the continent some think to be ‘heaven on Earth’, was like when she travelled there. And finally, read the statement of a survivor of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda; the sad story of a mother who saw her children tortured to death.
“I had to write this book to show my grandchildren where I come from and who I am,” Patricia explains. “I want to show them that women can achieve anything. We are mothers and fighters, too, with kind hearts. We love our children and we love our world.”
Some parts of this book will make you laugh, while others will make you cry; but it is important that you will learn a lot from this book.

Patricia Bamurangirwa has had an interesting life in many ways. She moved to four different countries while she was very young, first as a refugee to Congo DRC where she lost her mother, then to Uganda and later to Tanzanie and Kenya. Due to her circumstances, she missed out on higher education – something she always wanted to have.