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I am Evelyn Amony
Evelyn Amony
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Description for I am Evelyn Amony
Paperback. More than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army and its notorious commander Joseph Kony. Evelyn Amony was one of them. I Am Evelyn Amony tells a harrowing story of heartbreaking loss, unrelenting horror, and courageous survival. Editor(s): Baines, Erin; Kachaluba, A. Buck. Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGU; 3JJPR; 3JM; BTP; HBJH; JFSJ1; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
More than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army and its notorious commander Joseph Kony. Evelyn Amony was one of them.
I Am Evelyn Amony tells a harrowing story of heartbreaking loss, unrelenting horror, and courageous survival. Abducted in 1994 at the age of eleven, Amony spent nearly eleven years inside the Lord’s Resistance Army, becoming a forced wife to Joseph Kony and mother to his children. She takes the reader into the inner circles of LRA commanders and reveals unprecedented personal and domestic details ... Read more
More than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army and its notorious commander Joseph Kony. Evelyn Amony was one of them.
I Am Evelyn Amony tells a harrowing story of heartbreaking loss, unrelenting horror, and courageous survival. Abducted in 1994 at the age of eleven, Amony spent nearly eleven years inside the Lord’s Resistance Army, becoming a forced wife to Joseph Kony and mother to his children. She takes the reader into the inner circles of LRA commanders and reveals unprecedented personal and domestic details ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299304942
SKU
V9780299304942
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About Evelyn Amony
Evelyn Amony is a human rights advocate for waraffected women in northern Uganda, working as chair of the Women’s Advocacy Network and with the Justice and Reconciliation Project in Gulu, Uganda. Erin Baines is an associate professor in the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia and the cofounder of the Justice and Reconciliation ... Read more
Reviews for I am Evelyn Amony
'I am Evelyn Amony may be the ultimate example of a determined woman using her own powerful voice.'-African Arguments “In addition to the inherent drama of Amony’s voyage, the book uses the immediacy of oral storytelling that transitions well into written form, conveying her observations interspersed with barbed, often poetic analysis.”—International Journal of African Historical Studies