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1. Uganda's Recovery: The Role of
 
2. The Economic Development of Uganda:
 
3. Democratic Decentralisation in
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4. Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope
 
5. The Political Development of Uganda:
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6. The Teeth May Smile but the Heart
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7. Social Torture: The Case of Northern
 
8. Politics and Class Formation in
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9. Regime Hegemony in Museveni's
 
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10. Party and Locality in Uganda (Commonwealth
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11. Uganda Foreign Policy and Government
 
12. Local government and politics
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13. Uganda's Revolution 1979-1986:
 
14. Prospects for sustainable peace
 
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15. Improving the flow for Ugandans:
 
16. Report of an inquiry into African
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17. Government of Uganda: Human Rights
 
18. War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi
19. Uganda (Oxfam Country Profiles
 
20. Oded Uganda (Studies in Islamic

1. Uganda's Recovery: The Role of Farms, Firms, and Government (World Bank Regional and Sectoral Studies)
Paperback: 512 Pages (2001-06-01)
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2. The Economic Development of Uganda: Report of a Mission Organized by the IBRD at the Request of the Government of Uganda
by Professor World Bank
 Hardcover: 515 Pages (1962-04-01)
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Isbn: 0801803004
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3. Democratic Decentralisation in Uganda: A New Approach to Local Government
 Paperback: 159 Pages (1997-07)

Isbn: 9970021141
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4. Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children
by Faith J. H. McDonnell, Grace Akallo
Paperback: 240 Pages (2007-06-01)
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Asin: 0800794214
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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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

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5-0 out of 5 stars 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.

5-0 out of 5 stars 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!

1-0 out of 5 stars 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.

5-0 out of 5 stars 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.

5-0 out of 5 stars 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.

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5. The Political Development of Uganda: 1900-1986
by T. V. Sathyamurthy
 Hardcover: 781 Pages (1987-01)
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6. The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda
by Andrew Rice
Hardcover: 384 Pages (2009-05-26)
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From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today’s Africa

From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. Uganda chose the path of forgetting: after Idi Amin’s reign was overthrown, the new government opted for amnesty for his henchmen rather than prolonged conflict.

Ugandans tried to bury their history, but reminders of the truth were never far from view. A stray clue to the 1972 disappearance of Eliphaz Laki led his son to a shallow grave—and then to three executioners, among them Amin’s chief of staff. Laki’s discovery resulted in a trial that gave voice to a nation’s past: as lawyers argued, tribes clashed, and Laki pressed for justice, the trial offered Ugandans a promise of the reckoning they had been so long denied.

For four years, Andrew Rice followed the trial, crossing Uganda to investigate Amin’s legacy and the limits of reconciliation. At once a mystery, a historical accounting, and a portrait of modern Africa, The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget is above all an exploration of how—and whether—the past can be laid to rest.

Andrew Rice has written about Africa for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and The Economist, among other publications. His article "The Book of Wilson," published in The Paris Review, received a Pushcart Prize. He spent several years in Uganda as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs and currently lives in Brooklyn.

From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. Uganda chose the path of forgetting: after Idi Amin’s reign was overthrown, the new government opted for amnesty for his henchmen rather than prolonged conflict.

Ugandans tried to bury their history, but reminders of the truth were never far from view. A stray clue to the 1972 disappearance of Eliphaz Laki led his son to a shallow grave—and then to three executioners, among them Amin’s chief of staff. Laki’s discovery resulted in a trial that gave voice to a nation’s past: as lawyers argued, tribes clashed, and Laki pressed for justice, the trial offered Ugandans a promise of the reckoning they had been so long denied.

For four years, Andrew Rice followed the trial, crossing Uganda to investigate Amin’s legacy and the limits of reconciliation. At once a mystery, a historical accounting, and a portrait of modern Africa, The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget explores how—and whether—the past can be laid to rest.

"Tyrant, killer, buffoon: Idi Amin was unforgettable. But his victims have largely been forgotten. Andrew Rice rescues one man’s memory, gives him a face and a voice and lets him speak for a multitude of the dead. This is reporting at its best—as gripping as any murder mystery, but far more important, because every painful word is true."—Robert Guest, former Africa editor of The Economist and author of The Shackled Continent
"Tyrant, killer, buffoon: Idi Amin was unforgettable. But his victims have largely been forgotten. Andrew Rice rescues one man’s memory, gives him a face and a voice and lets him speak for a multitude of the dead. This is reporting at its best—as gripping as any murder mystery, but far more important, because every painful word is true."—Robert Guest, former Africa editor of The Economist and author of The Shackled Continent
 
"Andrew Rice has done something remarkable: he has written a passionate, sophisticated, elegant book about modern African history. Even more extraordinary, he has used Uganda to explore fundamental truths about memory and justice, and thus turned an African story into a universal one."—Peter Beinart, author of The Good Fight 
 
"Few journalists succeed in peering as deeply into a nation’s soul as Andrew Rice has done with this remarkable exploration of memory, war and love in Uganda. This is more than a book about Africa, it is a book that holds up a mirror to the human soul."—Matthew Green, author of The Wizard of the Nile
 
"A deeply moving book, telling a whole nation’s story through one man’s struggle for justice."—Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland

"On Sept. 22, 1972, a dusty car carrying three soldiers skidded to a stop outside a county headquarters in western Uganda. They apprehended the county chief, Eliphaz Laki, and told him he was wanted at the local army barracks for questioning. Then they drove him out of town, stopped at a cattle ranch, walked him into the bush, shot him in the back of the neck and left. Nearly three decades later, Eliphaz Laki's son Duncan pushed a shovel into the ground under a short oruyenje bush. The metal met something hard—a badly decomposed clump of human bones. Duncan had found his father. Pushcart Prize-winning journalist Andrew Rice, who lived in Uganda, tells the story of the son's search for his father—and for justice—in the compelling <The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget. This book is much larger than a family tragedy. Through the experiences of the Lakis under the murderous dictatorship of Idi Amin, Rice takes on the age-old dilemmas of hatred, divisiveness, revenge, reconciliation and the corruption of power . . . During the trial of Laki's killers, conducted from Nov. 20, 2002, until Sept. 25 the following year, some decried opening up old wounds, while others welcomed the opportunity to drill for the truth. More than a few argued that the three soldiers were simply following orders, that because Eliphaz Laki had ties to an anti-Amin faction, his killing was justified. The trial stirred up repressed, but still very much alive, enmities—between Muslim and Christian, between northern Ugandans and southern Ugandans, between those who still held Idi Amin in esteem and those who despised him. 'Justice,' writes Rice, 'entered the courtroom as a pristine ideal; it would leave scuffed, muddled, and altogether Ugandan.' Like Francisco Goldman's engaging 2007 book, The Art of Political Murder, which explored the assassination of Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi, the verdict mattered less than the process. In all its churning messiness, the trial of Laki's killers forced people not to turn their eyes away."—Donna Marchetti, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"From longtime African affairs journalist Rice, a provocative story of war, death and the quest for justice in the wake of Idi Amin's ruinous reign in Uganda. . . . As a ruler, having engineered a coup against his left-leaning predecessor and passed muster as a Cold War ally of the Western powers, he was seen as someone who could be reasoned with. Not so. Amin's lieutenants busily eliminated servants of the former administration and others suspected of being disloyal to the regime, which would become internationally infamous for its role in the hijacking of an Israeli airliner. One victim of the bloodletting was a county chief named Eliphaz Laki, who disappeared in 1972. In 1979, Amin's army, a haphazard lot of brigands, disintegrated after an ill-advised invasion of neighboring Tanzania. Amin fled into Saudi Arabian exile, after which many Ugandans took the view that it might be just as well to forget the past. Yet in 1986 a new leader came to power, Yoweri Museveni, and one of his first official acts was to establish a commission of inquiry about the crimes of the Amin regime, telling Ugandans that 'they could begin to mend their nation just by speaking the truth.' Helped by Laki's son, investigators determined that the murderers included Amin's chief of staff, as well as two soldiers, all of whom were brought to trial. Rice observes that, whereas most murder trials in Uganda's legal system took only a week or so to be settled, that of the senior official took more than a year, complicated by both the quality of the evidence and, it seems, a persistent refusal to fully engage the past. Reconciliation is an increasingly important process in nations once torn by fratricide. Rice's important book serves as an urgent case study, complete with a surprising outcome."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Journalist Rice . . . spent five years writing this account of a son's efforts to discover the truth about and seek justice for the 1972 murder of his father . . . His son eventually discovered his grave and tracked down his three executioners, who were brought to trial. Rice, who attended the trial, here considers the limits of reconciliation—an important question in today's world. The book reads as easily as mystery fiction, but Rice manages to weave in the complex history and even more serpentine politics of Amin's Uganda. He conducted more than 100 interviews and supports his text with 40 pages of notes."—Joel Neuberg, Library Journal

"Treating the Lakis' story as a microcosm of Uganda's own, the author weaves together the family's search for truth and justice with Uganda's history. From its intimate portrait of Eliphaz's grieving family to the wide-angle perspectives of the tumultuous post-independence years as Ugandans struggled to knit together a nation from the ethnically, lin...

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5-0 out of 5 stars 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.

5-0 out of 5 stars 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.

5-0 out of 5 stars 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.

5-0 out of 5 stars 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.
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7. Social Torture: The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006 (Human Rights in Context)
by Chris Dolan
Hardcover: 338 Pages (2009-04-28)
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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


8. Politics and Class Formation in Uganda
by Mahmood Mamdani
 Hardcover: 337 Pages (1976-06-01)
list price: US$16.50
Isbn: 0853453780
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9. Regime Hegemony in Museveni's Uganda: Pax Musevenica
by Joshua B. Rubongoya
Hardcover: 300 Pages (2007-01-09)
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This is a study of the struggle for the restoration of legitimate power in Uganda following the 1986 National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) liberation battle led by President Yoweri Museveni.This book emphasizes the normative basis for the exercise of power in Uganda reconstruction efforts, tracing a philosophical thread through previous studies of democratization, human rights, and the role of women. Political Legitimacy in Uganda addresses the empirical consequences of legitimacy on power relations and how this affects democratization and economic progress.
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10. Party and Locality in Uganda (Commonwealth Papers, 16.)
by Cherry J. Gertzel
 Paperback: 100 Pages (2002-02)
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Asin: 0485176165
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11. Uganda Foreign Policy and Government Guide
by Ibp Usa, USA International Business Publications
Paperback: 300 Pages (2009-01-01)
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12. Local government and politics in Uganda
by Fred G Burke
 Unknown Binding: 274 Pages (1964)

Asin: B0006D7H7K
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13. Uganda's Revolution 1979-1986: How I Saw It
by Pecos Kutesa
Paperback: 287 Pages (2006-03)
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14. Prospects for sustainable peace in Uganda: Government response to the Committee's ninth report of session 2006-07: tenth special report of session 2006-07: House of Commons Papers 1063 2006-07
by International Development Committee
 Paperback: 5 Pages (2007-10-18)

Isbn: 0215036638
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15. 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 ... African Review of Business and Technology
by Geoffrey Muleme
 Digital: 4 Pages (2006-02-01)
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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)

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4-0 out of 5 stars 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


16. Report of an inquiry into African local government in the protectorate of Uganda
by C. A. G Wallis
 Unknown Binding: 82 Pages (1953)

Asin: B0006EEBM8
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17. Government of Uganda: Human Rights in Uganda, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, National Housing and Construction Company
Paperback: 82 Pages (2010-09-15)
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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


18. War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin
by Tony Avirgan, Martha Honey
 Hardcover: Pages (1983-01)
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Isbn: 0882081365
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19. Uganda (Oxfam Country Profiles Series)
by Ian Leggett
Paperback: 88 Pages (2001-10)
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Isbn: 0855984546
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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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

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5-0 out of 5 stars 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.

4-0 out of 5 stars 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.

5-0 out of 5 stars 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


20. Oded Uganda (Studies in Islamic culture and history)
by ODED
 Hardcover: 382 Pages (1974)
list price: US$23.50
Isbn: 0470652608
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