The Night Wanderers: Uganda's Children and the Lord's
Resistance Army by Wojciech Jagielski, tells a story of such utter horror that
it is hard to believe that people committed such acts. And I say this fully knowing the atrocities
humanity has committed in our long and often violent, ugly history.
In Uganda, children were (and are?) used as instruments of
terror. What this author shows us is a
society whose very foundations are corroding. This book is also fascinating in showing the
role of spirit possession in African culture; it can explain nearly every
event, no matter how horrifying.
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