The night wanderers : Uganda's children and the Lord's Resistance Army / Wojciech Jagielski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jagielski, Wojciech, 1960-

Contributor:

Lloyd-Jones, Antonia

Standardized Title:

Nocni wędrowcy. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Children and war--Uganda.

Children and war.

Child soldiers--Uganda.

Child soldiers.

Lord's Resistance Army.

Social conditions.

Uganda--Social conditions--21st century.

Uganda.

Physical Description:

vii, 275 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm

Edition:

A Seven Stories Press first edition . first English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, c2012.

Summary:

On an average night in northern Uganda, tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies or in the streets. In recent years, the civil society was almost completely destroyed by the LRA, itself made up almost entirely of kidnapped children. Piecing together what has been broken is proving to be a nearly impossible task. Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski inserts himself into this hellish landscape and finds a way to speak of these children and their wounded world.

Notes:

Originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo W. A. B. under the title Nocni wędrowcy, 2009.

ISBN:

9781609803506

1609803507

OCLC:

729341632