Uganda
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Uganda, The Bradt Travel Guide by Philip Briggs (Bradt Travel Guides, 2007)
Bradt's Uganda has been thoroughly revised and updated to keep up with
the country's fast pace of development. This fifth edition includes a
more in-depth look at the booming tourism activities aimed at the more
active visitor, including whitewater rafting, an aerial runway, bungee
jumping, quad biking, and horse riding.
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Uganda in Pictures (Visual Geography) by Eric Braun (Lerner Publications Co ,U.S., 2006)
This new, completely revised and redesigned second edition of the
highly acclaimed "Visual Geography Series" reveals the history and
government, economy, geography and cultural life of the country and its
people.
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Uganda Since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes by Phares Mutibwa (Trenton, N.J. Africa World Press, 1992.)
A former history professor at Makerere University in Kampala, Mutibwa
says that Uganda has suffered more than its fair share of problems over
the last quarter-century. With rich natural resources and talented
citizens, Uganda might have been one of Africa's success stories but
instead became a tragic failure. Why?
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The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden (Vintage Reissue edition 1999)
The ‘Last King of Scotland’, is none other than Idi Amin, the former
dictator of Uganda. Told from the viewpoint of Nicholas Garrigan,
Amin's personal physician, the novel chronicles the hell that was
Uganda in the 1970s
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Uganda's Revolution 1979-1986: How I Saw It
by Pecos Kutesa (Fountain Publishers 2006)
The story of the guerrilla National Resistance Army in Uganda and its
struggle to overthrow the Amin government in the 1980s. The story is
told from the perspectives of the combatants, the intellectuals and the
largely uneducated people who rallied to change the social and
political landscape of their country. The author is a former
guerrilla-combatant who became a member of the Uganda Constituent
Assembly in 1995.
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Sowing the Mustard Seed by Yoweni Kaguta Museveni
The
autobiography of Yoweni Kaguta Museveni tells how he led a guerilla war
to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda,
established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African
leaders of his generation
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Singing for Life by Gregory Barz (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Books Ltd 2006)
Shows how music, dance, drama, and the visual arts have been enlisted
in the fight against AIDS in East Africa - from education to prevention
and treatment.
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