The night wanderers
Subtitle: Uganda's children and the Lord's Resistance Army
By: Wojciech Jagielski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Contributors: Lloyd-Jones, Antonia
Edition: A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781609803506
Subjects: Children and war; Child soldiers; Social conditions; Lord's Resistance Army
Work titles: Nocni wędrowcy
Description: 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.