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Boy soldier : a memoir of innocence lost and humanity regained in northern Uganda

Title: Boy soldier : a memoir of innocence lost and humanity regained in northern Uganda / Norman Okello and Theo Hollander.
Author: Okello, Norman
Publication: London : Unbound, 2021.

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Additional Authors

Hollander, Theo

Description

xvi, 432 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Uganda's civil war with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has raged since the early 1990s, claiming over 100,000 lives and displacing around 1.5 million people. The LRA are a rebel force who combine religious mysticism with extreme brutality, infamous for abducting tens of thousands of children for use as soldiers and forcing them to commit unspeakable violence. Their insurgency continues to this day, though most of us know little about it. Boy Soldier tells the story of one of the children who fell victim to this forgotten war. After an idyllic childhood, Norman Okello was abducted by the LRA at the age of twelve. In captivity, he was subjected to a ruthless training regime aimed at turning him into a killing machine free from conscience and fear. Norman's struggled constantly to stay alive while maintaining his humanity, and he eventually managed to escape his ordeal. But having fled the clutches of the LRA, he was faced with the task of trying to reintegrate into a society that feared and despised him. Harrowing, inspiring and enlightening in equal measure, Boy Soldier is above all a story of survival and redemption against unbelievable odds." --

Subject

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I A First Encounter -- A Bitter Start -- The End of Happiness -- Writing My Name -- pt. II Becoming a Soldier -- Death March -- Palutaka -- My Life as a Soldier -- pt. III Losing My Humanity -- The Person I Feared Becoming -- The Attack on Palutaka -- The Deserts of Sudan -- pt. IV The Birth of a Monster -- Exorcism of the Civilian Mind -- The Birth of a Monster -- Invoking the Spirit of Vengeance -- The Girls of Aboke -- The Kitgum Massacres -- pt. V The Life After -- Escape -- A Prisoner Again -- Still Trapped in the War -- The Return of Happiness -- On the Fates of the People in this Book -- Uganda: A History of Cyclical Violence -- War in Northern Uganda and the Genesis of the Lord's Resistance Army -- On Peace and Unending War.

Call Number

Sc E 21-946

ISBN

9781783528110
1783528117

OCLC

1222803624

Author

Okello, Norman, author.

Title

Boy soldier : a memoir of innocence lost and humanity regained in northern Uganda / Norman Okello and Theo Hollander.

Publisher

London : Unbound, 2021.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

Since 1979

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Hollander, Theo, author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-946

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