Twelve years after politically-instigated ethnic violence destroys his family and ‘ends’ his life at the age of 12, I (the entire book is written in the rare but effective first person singular perspective) graduates at the top of his class at New York City’s Ivy League Columbia University. But that hasn’t stopped people from visiting violence on one another in places such as Kenya, Burundi, eastern Congo-Kinshasa, Ivory Coast and even Tanzania,” Ondego says, revealing that the book had been crafted from his experience as a journalist who witnessed the suffering of Kenyans in 1991, 1997 and 2007.