Blogs in September 2020

Child of Dandelions 22nd September 2020

A breathtaking account of one girl’s determination to triumph over a devastating historical event. In Uganda in 1972, President Idi Amin, also known as the Last King of Scotland, announces that foreign Indians must be “weeded” out of Uganda...

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Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda 22nd September 2020

In October 1996, thirty Ugandan schoolgirls were abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army and disappeared into the bush of Northern Uganda. The girls were raped and tortured before being forced to become child soldiers and sex slaves. This was...

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Abyssinian Chronicles 22nd September 2020

Like Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moses Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope. At the center of this...

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Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe 22nd September 2020

In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life...

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Nightmare Along the River Nile: A Story of Twentieth Century Slavery 22nd September 2020

As recently reported on various news media, sub-Saharan immigrants are being sold at auction in Libya. Such is the fate that befalls Edgar when on his way home from school, his bus is ambushed by rebels of the Lord’s...

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