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1	Beatrice's Goat more books like this by Page McBrier, Lori Lohstoeter (Illustrator) add to wishlist In this story set in Uganda, a girl named Beatrice wants to go to school but family circumstances force her to stay home and care for her younger siblings while their mother works in the fields. When the family is given a goat by a charitable organization, their lives begin to improve and, eventually, Beatrice is even able to go to school. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.87! \| signed copies \| SVS
2	Man-Eaters of Tsavo more books like this by John Patterson add to wishlist Tells the story of two man-eating lions who terrorized East Africa and brought to a halt the construction of a new railway line. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children more books like this by Faith J H McDonnell, Grace Akallo add to wishlist For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and forced to commit unspeakable crimes. Grace Akallo was one of these. Her story, which is the story of many ... see all copies from $6.45! new only from $7.30! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African adventures more books like this by J. H. Patterson add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII THE DISTRICT OFFICER'S NARROW ESCAPE Some little time before the flight of the workmen, I had written to Mr. Whitehead, the District Officer, asking him ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The last king of Scotland more books like this by Giles Foden add to wishlist Combining elements of the thriller noir with comedy, this novel is based on the macabre events of Idi Amin's regime, "The Last King of Scotland" being one of the many titles which the tyrant bestowed on himself. It is also about a young Scottish doctor who becomes involved in Amin's administration. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
6	First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army more books like this by Peter H Eichstaedt add to wishlist Told through the voices of those who have suffered, this illuminating expose examines how a forgotten region of one of Africa's most promising nations - Uganda, dubbed 'the pearl' of Africa by Winston Churchill - has been systematically destroyed by a bloody, senseless, and seemingly endless war that has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the ... see all copies from $14.08! new only from $14.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third-World Adventure Changed My Life more books like this by Eve Brown-Waite add to wishlist In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him--literally-to the ends of the earth and finds love and purpose in the last place she expected. see all copies from $12.01! new only from $12.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A distant grief more books like this by F. Kefa Sempangi, Barbara R. Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $2.45! new only from $99.00!
9	Kahawa more books like this by Donald E Westlake add to wishlist In Uganda in 1977, a particular trainload of coffee, mostly belonging to dictator Idi Amin, is worth six million dollars. As a group of scoundrels and international financiers hijack the train, the double and triple crosses pile up and the comic tension escalates in a brawling brew of buffoons, bumblers, beans and boxcars. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Mountain People more books like this by Colin Turnbull add to wishlist In "The Mountain People," Colin The Forest People" - describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to scattered bands of hostile, starving people whose only goal is individual survival. Forbidden by the Ugandan government to hunt game in the Kidepo ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.13! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Roots of Ethnicity: The Origins of the Acholi of Uganda Before 1800 more books like this by Ronald R Atkinson add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Lugbara of Uganda more books like this by John Middleton add to wishlist Written by one of the most distinguished ethnographers of African cultures, this edition updates 30 years of research and writing. Middleton's sensitive account dramatizes how this complex sociopolitical society, once reliant on feud or warfare to control competition, became refugees of harassment and victims of famine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $81.52! \| first editions \| SVS
13	A State of Blood more books like this by Henry Kyemba add to wishlist see all copies from $10.75! first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Child Soldier: Fighting for My Life more books like this by China Keitetsi add to wishlist This is the heartrending account of the author's terrifying journey out of her family home and into the world of bloody warfare. Set in Uganda in the 1970s, China runs away from abuse at home at the tender age of 8 and gets drafted into Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA), fighting to depose Dr Milton Obote's regime. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $22.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	90 minutes at Entebbe more books like this by William Stevenson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! SVS
16 view cover	Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda more books like this by Sverker Finnstrom add to wishlist Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord's Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and forced into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced into fighting. Many observers have perceived ... see all copies from $22.95! new only from $22.95! \| SVS
17 view cover	Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa more books like this by Robert J Thornton add to wishlist This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa and in so doing, reframes current debates about the disease. Robert J. Thornton explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1990s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, ... see all copies from $15.50! new only from $22.08! \| SVS
18 view cover	Among the Cannibals: Adventures on the Trail of Man's Darkest Ritual more books like this by Paul Raffaele add to wishlist "Among the Cannibals" began when Paul Raffaele, Australian travel writer, made his first trip up an obscure New Guinea river in search of one of the last practicing cannibal cultures on Earth. What he found were a people who conflate disease with sorcery, and who exact vengeance for their loved ones' deaths by hunting, and eating, the "sorcerers" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development more books like this by Kristen E Cheney add to wishlist How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In this innovative ethnography of Ugandan children - the pillars of tomorrow's Uganda, according to the national youth anthem - Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their places ... see all copies from $15.54! new only from $15.54!
20 view cover	The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted more books like this by Matthew Green add to wishlist The civil war in Uganda has bled on for over two decades, spilling over into Sudan and the Congo and drawing only occasional interest from the West. The rebel insurgency in the north is led by "the wizard of the Nile," Joseph Kony, whose Lord's Resistance Army is infamous both for its wish to rule Uganda according to the Ten Commandments and its ... see all copies from $15.21! new only from $15.21! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Combing of History more books like this by Professor David W Cohen add to wishlist How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions and paradigms that govern historical knowledge ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Gravity of Sunlight more books like this by Rosa Shand add to wishlist Agnes, an American teacher in Uganda, is unhappily married. Her eventual affair with one of her husband's colleagues mirrors the political unrest in Uganda in the early 1970s that culminated in Idi Amin's 1971 takeover of the country. This thoughtful exploration of a woman's psyche is a poetically written look at a troubled American in Africa at a ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Year of the Gorilla more books like this by Mr. George B Schaller add to wishlist This seminal work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Zaire-Rwanda-Uganda border. There, he learned that these majestic animals, far from being the aggressive apes of film and fiction, form close-knit societies of caring ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	IDI Amin more books like this by John Allen add to wishlist The course of world history has often been set by powerful individuals who had an insatiable hunger for power, wealth, fame, and glory. In many cases, these villains have ruled countries and empires with violence and oppression--inflicting their ideals on innocent people. History's Villains takes a two-sided look at some of history's most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97!
25	Yoni, hero of Entebbe more books like this by Max Hastings add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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