![]() ![]() ![]() And lots of striking incidents and some strong (though not generally very likeable) characters.ĭespite which, after reading a hundred pages, I checked to see how long the book was and had a sinking feeling when I saw there were still 400 pages to go. The central character is initially brought up in a village before moving to Kampala, is from a Catholic background and is educated in a rather brutal seminary his grandmother is a midwife he ends up leaving Uganda to move to Holland. The good stuff first: it’s a story that traces a couple of generations through the history of modern Uganda, with the arrival of Idi Amin and the collapse of his regime, the sequence of messy guerilla wars, the rise of AIDS and so on. Which is a bit of a relief, because I found it quite hard work. ![]() I’ve just finished Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa. ![]()
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