uganda

A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat. Based on a true story about the work of Project Heifer.

In Uganda in 1972, fifteen-year-old Sabine and her family, wealthy citizens of Indian descent, try to preserve their normal life during the ninety days allowed by President Idi Amin for all foreign Indians to leave the country, while soldiers and others terrorize them and people disappear.

Explores genocide and persecution in Uganda, including the historical/cultural background of events from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century. Issues surrounding events such as the despotic rule of Idi Amin, Milton Obote, and Yoweri Museveni and genocidal acts committed by government and rebel forces.

A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about a group of boys in Uganda who are kidnapped and forced to join the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, and their desperate escape, only to return home to discover that their friends and family are afraid of them.

The author, a Ugandan human rights advocate, tells how he and his American wife used their modest resources and contributions from friends and churches to open a school for children in Uganda who had lost one or both parents to AIDS.

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the largest living primate, the gentle and shy mountain gorilla, now threatened with extinction because of the systematic destruction of its habitat.