Product Description
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 Ugandan children, recounts her terrifying experience. This unforgettable book--with historical background and insights from Faith McDonnell, one of the clearest voices in the church today calling for freedom and justice--will inspire readers around the world to take notice, pray, and work to end this tragedy. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (7)

Girl lSoldier.
I have not read the book yet, but it arrived in good shape and in a timely fashion.Thanks for the great service.

Girl Soldier - Great condition - Great reading!!!
Although it took little time to receive because I didnt pay for expedited service, when it finally arrived my daughter started to read it and she says it is great. The book was in very good condition (like new). Thank you so much!

should have read the review more closely
This is a preachy Christian missionary tract for the most part.If you're not interested in sermons skip it and read "A Long Way Gone", a much less biased account of child soldiers.

Riveting, Shocking and Inspiring
This book is a must for understanding what is going on in Africa with the horror of "child soldiers." I could not believe what I was reading, nor imagine how one could heal from such an experience. We must become more informed about what is happening around the world and do what we can to help. Since this book, I have read several others that confirm what this one said.

Voice for the Voiceless
What a fascinating collaboration. Grace Akallo, kidnapped as a child by Ugandan soldiers, teams with Faith J. H. McDonnell, one of the foremost advocates of justice for Ugandans. Together they tell not only Grace's story but a story of grace--God's grace in the midst of human atrocities.

For years rebel armies have been raiding Ugandan villages to kidnap children and force them into lives as soldiers or wives. More than 30,000 have been enslaved. This historically faithful account also is meant to inspire and inform: what can we do to stop such injustice?

Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction , Spiritual Friends, and Soul Physicians.

... Read more

Product Description

Customer Reviews (4)

Strong Story
I have read many books about Uganda, even liven for a long while in Kampala. Therefore now that I'm back in Europe- I read books about the place in the world I miss the most. That's the main reason why I bought it. I didn't know the whole story of the first attempt of getting rid of Amin in 1972. But I knew some parts of it and this book gave a reasonable adjustment of the already well known history. It also was a personal attempt to portray how the changes has given the society that exist in Uganda today. Especially the NRM government controlled base and how the tribes from the east have more power than in the Northern had while dictator Amin was ruling. So I knew a lot about it already and enjoyed reading it through this angle. Get it personal from families involved in the transitions between, Obote, Amin and Museveni. Giving the touch of how Tanzania was involved too, give a more understanding of why Amin attracted them and not only was on a stupid crusade as many European writers have told before hand. This book isn't giving the same story as you read in the Ugandan New Vision History packs or Daily Monitor Newspaper. But its a great experience and gives the reader for some new information about what happen in Mbarara at the first attempt to get Amin away from power and why it failed.

So sit down with some ginger tea and lean back, read and enjoy the moment even if it's a little painful to read about others misfortunes, but this is the world we live in. Please don't forget those who made it as we live today. That's maybe the main purpose of the writer. I don't know but it could been so.

Great Book
This book was wonderful. The author was able to weave a personal story through out the history of this war torn country. It is well written, informative and captivating. It is also a great history lesson of Uganda.

Remembering the slaughter in Uganda
Uganda featured prominently in the international news in the 1970s, during Idi Amin's reign of terror. Instability and civil war continued in the 1980s, and then for the ensuing 20 years rebels remained active in the north of the country. The story of one man's quest to bring the murderers of his father to justice is told in this book.

A Commission of Inquiry Into Violations of Human Rights was set up to create a record of past atrocities and recommend prosecutions, but the government ran out of enthusiasm before the Commission's task was complete, and the Commission's findings simply sit on shelves gathering dust. However, through his own investigations Duncan Laki discovered the truth behind the disappearance of his father Eliphaz Laki, and he attempted to bring to justice Idi Amin's henchmen who had murdered him.

The book provides an extremely interesting and readable account of Eliphaz Laki's activities, Duncan's investigations, and the trial. Should people who have committed atrocities in the past be brought to justice, or should sleeping dogs be allowed to lie?Most Ugandans would prefer to forgive and move on, but violent offenders seem to take advantage of that attitude to commit atrocities with impunity.

Utterly Africa and Yet Too Close to Home
I picked up this book assuming it an escapist murder mystery set half a world away, but the story haunts a failed memory that resides unnervingly close to home.

A beautiful country with decent people is emerging from a seven-year-fog during which its rulers claimed a mandate from God, wiretapped neighbors, tortured perceived enemies, suspended civil liberties, and invaded a non-threatening state. Later, reports sink in of how civilians and soldiers were killed on our behalf, but for reasons that remain obscure to this day. Some demand deposed leaders face justice. Others say accountability endangers the foundation of national security. Hmmm...Stop if this sounds familiar.

The Teeth May Smile is set in Uganda's past, a place and time few of us knew, much less forgot. It is palpably Africa, with its Maribou Storks perched on courthouses. Yet within that era and place Rice reconstructs an all-too-familiar state of fear and anxiety, revealing how easy and tempting it is for someone to let our voice go silent, point our finger at others, shrug at wrongdoing, or nod when instructed by opinion leaders that "you know, sometimes it's better to just keep walking."

Duncan Laki refused to keep walking. The story's protagonist stood fast in his quest for the truth and justice, however painful or destabilizing those words might prove. And Mr. Rice had the savvy journalistic instincts to stand behind him - never judging, but incessantly taking notes -- over seven years, from courtroom to banana farm to graveside.

It would be comforting to describe Rice as merely "a superb Africa-based foreign correspondent," or label this book as "casting a fascinating light on Uganda." He is, and it does. But both go deeper. Rice serves a gripping narrative nonfiction story that manages effortlessly to strip away the superficial gauze of tribe, race, party, nationality, and geography.

The Teeth May Smile holds a mirror up to the fragility of human nature, leaving the quiet courage of men like Laki, both son and father, to remind us where we might have buried our moral compass during our own national period of uncertainty, and what layers we might have to dig through to one day get it back.
... Read more

Product Description
As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government decisions and actions on the ground, consolidated by humanitarian interventions and silences, played a central role in creating a massive yet little recognized humanitarian crisis. Not only individuals, but society as a whole, came to exhibit symptoms typical of torture, and the perpetrator-victim dichotomy became blurred. It is such phenomena, and the complex of social, political, economic and cultural dynamics which underpin them, which the author describes as social torture. Building on political economy, social anthropology, discourse analysis, international relations and psychoanalytic approaches to violence, this book offers an important analytical instrument for all those seeking entry points through which to address entrenched conflicts. ... Read more

Product Description

Product Description
Uganda Foreign Policy and Government Guide ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from African Review of Business and Technology, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 971 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Improving the flow for Ugandans: the Uganda government is reducing water tariffs in an effort to attract more consumers. Geoffrey Muleme reports from Kampala.(Water Supply)
Author: Geoffrey Muleme
Publication: African Review of Business and Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42Issue: 1Page: 56(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Good Introduction To Ugandan Water Supply And Tariff Issues
This article by Geoffrey Muleme (originally published in the February 1, 2006 edition of "African Review of Business and Technology") explores the history of water tariffs in Uganda, and the coming of a more rational water policy within the government. Major General Kahinda Otafire has made it a prime governmental mission to reduce and equalize the water and sewer rates across Uganda, particularly in rural areas, which in the past have been frequently overcharged with deleterious health consequences.

In urban areas piped sewers serve eight percent of the population, though rural communities are still far behind that. Despite progress, most poor people still travel long distances for unsafe water, and sewer services are still relatively undeveloped, though the state-owned National Water and Sewerage Corporation is working on improvements.

In some areas rain water harvesting technology is being employed and funded by the government. Though the program initially only covers the Bukanga, Isingiro, Kooki, Kabula, Mayuge, Nakasongola, and Teso Lango regions, rural safe water coverage has improved to 60 percent by June 2005 (up from 57.9 percent a year earlier.)

This article deals with the progress Uganda is making in water policy. The government is making strides in sanitary water services for all citizens of Uganda, both rural and urban, and this article explains in appropriate detail how the reduction in water tariffs have played a key role in this progress.

The government of Uganda is to be commended for focusing on this important and basic task. This article is to be commended for explaining the important relationship of water tariffs and clean water availability. This is an interesting article for people interested in public utilities in the developing world, the sociology of water distribution, and Ugandan infrastructure development and economic policy. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Human Rights in Uganda, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, National Housing and Construction Company, Bank of Uganda, President of Uganda, Supreme Court of Uganda, Uganda National Rescue Front, Local Council, List of Governors of Uganda, Capital Markets Authority, Prime Minister of Uganda, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda Communications Commission, Uganda Investment Authority, Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda, National Enterprise Corporation, Ezra Suruma, Uganda National Cultural Centre, Uganda Export Promotion Board, Uganda Ministry of Health, Electricity Regulatory Authority, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Black Mamba, Constitution of Uganda, Uganda Revenue Authority, Parliament of Uganda, Uganda Insurance Commission, Presidential Commission of Uganda, Northern Ugandan Social Action Fund, Vice President of Uganda. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article is part of the series:Politics and government ofUganda Uganda continues to experience difficulty in advancing respect for human rights in matters concerning torture, child labor, and liberties. There are as many as thirteen 'security' organizations of the Museveni government, some directly answerable to the President and not constitutionally based and established by Act of Parliament. These organisations persecute opponents of the government, carry out abductions, disappearances, extrajudicial killings and torture and act both independently, interdependently with each other, and in cooperation with the Ugandan Police. These organisations also harass the free media and official parliamentary opposition. The conflict in the north of the country between the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has decimate...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1840141 ... Read more

Product Description
Once known as 'The Pearl of Africa', Uganda has, over the last 50 years, suffered the notoriety of rule by dictator Idi Amin, of economic collapse, and of systematic human rights abuses. Yet today, Uganda is widely viewed as an inspirational economic success story, and as a symbol of a more vibrant, successful Africa.
This Country Profile provides a concise account of Uganda's historical and political background, and traces the growth of modern Uganda, where pioneering and imaginative responses to poverty and political pluralism are contrasted with the devastating effects of continuing internal conflicts.
Throughout the book, Ugandan people speak for themselves on such issues as dealing with conflict; the effects of the universal primary education program; and innovative projects to combat HIV and AIDS. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Uganda (Oxfam)
Well written, organized, easy to read, brief, and engaging overview of Uganda: the geography, history, politics, people.Lots of photos.
I recommend it for those who want an overview of the country.

A Good Overview
This is a good Oxfam publication.It was fairly concise and informative.I was, however, let down by its short length.Another 100 pages would have been nice.

An Objective and Concise Overview of Uganda
This Oxfam Country Profile is the most up-to-date overview of contempory Uganda that is currently available.Mr. 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.Written with compassion but without sentimentality, the material is presented both from a general perspective and as seen through the eyes of individual Ugandans.The book is profusely illustrated with high-quality photographs.Affordable, essential reading for those planning to travel to Uganda, or for anyone with an interest in the country and its people. ... Read more