A Jewish British expatriate in an African social world, Posnansky struggled to establish his racial identity in the British colonial world where Jewish communities were rare. He crossed racial and religious boundaries by marrying a Christian woman from Uganda, a highly unusual step at that time. Written in a refreshing, candid style, these memoirs provide a fascinating glimpse into the changes taking place in modern Africa. 288pp, UK. RADCLIFFE PRESS.

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.

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.

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, SOUTH AFRICA, JACANA

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. JANYEKO PUBLISHING CENTRE.

2000 9970510020 Paperback

The traumatised woman who dies of grief, the girl whose dream to become a doctor is thwarted, the little girl who raises a vulnerable family of little children because her parents and all her relatives have been killed by LRA rebels, and many other harrowing tales comprise this collection. These are real life experiences, told by women of Northern Uganda about the atrocities that they have endured for over two decades at the hands of the notorious rebel leader, Joseph Kony and his vicious lieutenants. 118pp, UGANDA. FEMRITE.

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.

Janet Kataaha Museveni has been the First Lady of Uganda since May 1986. She is married to Yoweri Museveni, with whom she has four children. She is the current Minister for Karamoja Affairs in Uganda's Cabinet. She is also the elected Member of Parliament representing Ruhaama County, Ntungamo District. This is her story. 314pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

New in paperback. Exploration of the author's East African Indian roots through the shared experience of cooking. In 1972, they were one of the many families expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin who moved to the UK, where Yasmin has made her home with an Englishman. The food she cooks now, in one of the world's most ethnically-diverse cities, combines the traditions and tastes of her family's hybrid history. 352pp, UK. PORTOBELLO BOOKS.

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.

Personal story of a Spanish priest who was working in northern Uganda when The Lord's Resistance Army declared war on the government. He was so pained by the horrific situation that he decided to try and do something about it. He had to try and understand the nature and causes of the conflict, and he needed to find allies to work with in the search for a solution. He worked with Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative and the Justice and Peace Commission of Gulu Archdiocese. He was part of the efforts of northern Uganda's civil society, to mobilise assistance for the abducted children and their families as well as for the hundreds of peasants who were driven into displaced peoples camps by the conflict. 286pp, 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