Follow the first of his adventures as one morning his saddles his mule Assissa and rides, very fast, through the gate and over the bridge, singing as he goes - 'I'm going to the city; I'm going to the c-i-t-y ' He reaches the high crossroads, the cityscape spread out before him, and realises he is lost . . .

Told in the author's distinctive style, and based on the tales and legends of her childhood in Rwanda, find out how Kadogo's life is changed forever as he sits, close to tears, wondering if his parents will come for him, who the two strange men are in the distance, and who a third man is - the hero who will change his life.