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Guest, a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters, concentrates on the neglected and perhaps most helpless and vulnerable victims of the AIDS epidemic...the millions of street orphans from all over Africa, especially in such sub-Saharan countries as South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda. Buy

Labels: Children, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Politics, Tanzania, Uganda

Agu, the precocious, gentle son of a village schoolteacher father and a Bible-reading mother, is dragooned into an unnamed West African nation's mad civil war - a boy forced, almost overnight, to shoulder a soldier's bloody burden. The pre-teen protagonist is moulded into a fighting man by his demented guerrilla leader and, after witnessing his father's savage slaying, by an inchoate need to belong to some kind of family, no matter how depraved. Buy

Labels: Children, Literature, Uganda

This Oxfam Country Profile is the most up-to-date overview of contemporary Uganda that is currently available. Leggett has written an objective narrative that covers the major issues facing Ugandans today - education, health, politics, regional conflict, and the economy. Also included are a brief history, current statistics, and additional references. Buy

Labels: History, Uganda

Whether you choose to visit mountain gorillas in Rwanda, trek Tanzania's Kilimanjaro or join the beach parties at Lamu and Zanzibar, you'll have a wild time in East Africa. Buy

Labels: Rwanda, Travel Guide, Uganda

The unusual and innovative data collected in this book comes from material written by children directly after the coup of July 27th, 1985, in Kampala. Four hundred children wrote essays on "The Events of War and Violence in My Life". Twenty-four of the essays are presented here, along with articles concerning the effects of war on Ugandan children, and the dilemma of parents during wartime. Buy

Labels: Children, History, Uganda

Mamdani writes a brief but extremely insightful analysis of the foreign influences which shaped Uganda from the perspective of dependency theory. He argues that Amin was a social, political, and economic phenomenon constructed not just by Uganda, but with the help of the British, the US, and the Soviet Union. Buy

Labels: History, Politics, Uganda

The value of Meredith's towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis, or its original insights; it is the sheer readability of the project, combined with a notable lack of pedantry, which makes it one of the decade's most important works on Africa. Spanning the entire continent, and covering the major upheavals more or less chronologically...from the promising era of independence to the most recent spate of infamies...Meredith brings us on a journey that is as illuminating as it is gruelling. Buy

Labels: Ghana, History, Kenya, Politics, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

Nolen puts a very human face on HIV/AIDS in Africa, verbally and visually. A photograph accompanies each of the book's 28 personal histories (one subject stands for one million infected people in sub-Saharan Africa). The faces in the photos appear no different than faces of everyday Americans, but that appearance belies the horrific reality of lives shredded by devastating disease.

Labels: Biography, Ghana, Health, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

"After reading the first paragraph and faced with the statement, 'Three million people die each year from AIDS, a death toll that has been compared to twenty fully loaded 747s crashing every single day for a year', it seemed evident that there was more to this disease than I first thought. I remembered how many stories I saw on the news about airplanes crashing and the news coverage that followed. I can't remember the last news story I watched about AIDS" - Amazon Review. Buy

Labels: Development, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

Over six million child combatants were killed or injured in the past decade. In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, Singer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and former adviser to the U.S. military, explores the rise and expansion of child soldiery. Buy

Labels: Children, History, Politics, Uganda

With more than 200 scintillating full-color photos, "Spectrum Guide to Uganda" is an in-depth guide to this land of abundant wildlife, flowers and plants as well as cascading waterfalls and rushing rivers such as the Nile. Buy

Labels: Environment, Travel Guide, Uganda

The abduction of over 40 girls from the Catholic School at Aboke, and the nun who followed the rebels on foot to get them back is an amazingly heart wrenching and well told tale. Els De Temmerman also offers fascinating insights into the twisted mind of rebel leader Joseph Kony, and his spiritual quest to purify the Acholi race. If at all you are interested in the Northern Ugandan crisis, then this is an absolute must read. Buy

Labels: Children, History, Uganda, Women

In this book Africa specialist Philip Briggs provides fully updated information on every aspect of the country's tourist infrastructure, from national parks and gorilla reserves to Lake Victoria and the Ssese Islands. Uganda's attractions for the natural history enthusiasts are almost legendary. Buy

Labels: Travel Guide, Uganda

Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army have abducted thousands, many of them children, and have systematically tortured, raped, maimed and killed their victims. Nevertheless, the ICC has confronted outright hostility from a wide range of groups. Even the Ugandan government, which invited the ICC to become involved in 2003, has expressed serious reservations. While recognizing the difficulties involved, the author shows that much of the antipathy towards the ICC's intervention is misplaced. Buy

Labels: Politics, Uganda