From Rwanda's last three kings - Yuhi V Musinga, Mutara III Rudahigwa and Kigeli V Ndahindurwa - through to each of the presidencies of Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Gregoire Kayibanda, Juvenal Habyarimana, Theodore Sindikubwabo, Pasteur Bizimungu and Paul Kagame, 101-year-old Epimaque Nyagashotsi has seen it all.
Born in 1920 in Gahini, currently in Kayonza District, Nyagashotsi spent a good part of his youthful life on the battlefield, first as a World War II combatant in Kenya and later, in 1960s, as a member of the Inyenzi warriors.
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