New Edition. European telecommunications workers describe their experiences of living in Uganda before and during Idi Amin's rule, and their part in government and civilian life. A personal view of a turbulent period. Map, 259pp, UK. OYSTER PRESS, 1899177108

New UK Edition. The true life story of a young Ugandan girl who runs away from her oppressive and abusive home and is drafted into Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army and is soon in the thick of a guerrilla war. Maps, b/w illus, 274pp, UK. SOUVENIR PRESS, 0285636901

The biography of Colonel Rwehururu whose first hand experience of the 1971 coup and the 1979 war make this an important contribution to the documentation of the period. Apps, b/w photos, maps, ix 189pp, UGANDA. MONITOR PUBLICATIONS LTD, 9970411657

2002 Paperback

Autobiography of a senior civil servant during the (mis)rule of Obote and Amin. Faced with a choice of remaining loyal and watching as his fellow citizens were slaughtered, he made a stand and was imprisoned before fleeing to exile in Kenya. B/w photos, 192pp, UGANDA. MISC PUBLISHERS IN UGANDA.

Places Kakungulu's life and work within the social context of Islam and religious politics in Uganda. The work demonstrates how Kakungulu handled discord within the community between 1920 and the 1960s. It outlines how he successfully established an alternative education system for Muslims that led to an educated Muslim elite, which was able to bring together western education and ideas with the teachings and ideals of Islam, fusing understand-ing about the two cultures to inform the political process. Argues that after the fall of Idi Amin, Kakungulu negotiated an honourable deal for Muslims, and averted a Muslim holocaust. 280pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

For a few people, Obote is a Ugandan hero: the founder of the nation, a nationalist, pan-Africanist and socialist. To others, he was a tribalist, a regionalist and megalomaniac who ruled by the army and terrorised his opponents. This book comprises a collection of newspaper articles and commentaries by politicians, journalists and his family, relating to the man Ugandans love to hate. It includes contributions from Obote’s nemesis, Museveni. Some fifty articles aim to portray the many conflicting and complementary readings of Obote, and draw conclusions as to his genuine nature and political record. 225pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN.

Born in 1934, as an orphan, Tereza Mbire was a head teacher by the age of nineteen, a district councillor and commissioner. She became an entrepreneur, setting up the first modern bakery in the country in the post-Idi Amin period. 127pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

The story of the guerrilla National Resistance Army in Uganda and its struggle to overthrow the Idi Amin government in the 1980s, a war which has been characterised by the historian Mahmood Mamdani as a historic defeat in Africa for a professional army at the hands of civilians. The story is told from the perspectives of the combatants the intellectuals and the uneducated masses 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. Maps, illus, 287pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

A record of the author's experience of Uganda's political, social and economic development in the years leading to independence in 1962. Illustrated with colour photographs. Bib, gloss, 170pp, UK. POYNTINGTON PUBLICATIONS CO., 095366970X