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Informationen zum Autor Opiyo Oloya is the Superintendent of Education for School Leadership with the York Catholic District School Board. He writes a weekly column on social issues for the Ugandan newspaper New Vision, which is read throughout Africa, and has spent the last three summers working in Somalia with the African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Klappentext Opiyo Oloya investigates how children are transformed into combatants by examining how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), become soldiers. Zusammenfassung Opiyo Oloya investigates how children are transformed into combatants by examining how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), become soldiers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Conceptual and practical challenges 3. Gwooko dog paco, defending the homestead, cultural devastation and the LRM/A 4. Culture, identity and control in the LRM/A 5. The autobiographical voices of becoming CI soldiers (I) 6. The autobiographical voices of becoming CI soldiers (II) 7. Dwoogo paco, returning home References Footnotes
