Traces the history of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa, providing information on the region's first human settlement, the formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nine, and the impact colonizers had on the area.
A 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.
Recounts the experiences of Grace Akallo, who was forced to enter into the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda when she was only fifteen year old and endured savagery, starvation, and abuse with only her faith to help her.
When Paulo falls off of a ladder and into the back of a moving lorry in his village in Uganda, he has no idea that he will soon be in the hands of dangerous thieves.