The Forgotten Gorillas of DRC: my story of faith, hope and conservation

Forty years on from the story of Dian Fossey and the Gorillas in the Mist, the man who guided those visitors around his native land tells his life story.

This book shares John Kahekwa’s life story, one of the world’s leading conservationaists, from growing up in a small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and walking barefoot to school to starting work with the gorillas, learning their behaviours, habituating them to be comfortable in the presence of people, and then the incred...