When the walking defeats you: one man's journey as Joseph Kony's bodyguard

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dc.date.accessioned 2018-01-04 en
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-08T01:23:45Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-08T01:23:45Z
dc.date.issued 2018-01-04 en
dc.identifier.uri http://www.bestred.co.za/when-the-walking-defeat-you-detail.html en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/11453
dc.description.abstract Educated and aspirational, with dreams of becoming a teacher, George Omona would seem an unlikely recruit for the Lord's Resistance Army; a group which for many has become the embodiment of evil, reviled for its use of child soldiers, sexual slavery, and for waging a decades long campaign of terror across a large swathe of Eastern and Central Africa. But drawn in by the charismatic pull of its messianic leader, and by the group's claims to speak for the long marginalised Acholi people, George came to regard the group as the best change for rebuilding his life after his explosion from high school. George's education and fluent command of English allowed him to rapidly rise through the ranks, eventually becoming a bodyguard to the group's now notorious leader, Joseph Kony. Having spent almost three years with the group before deserting, George's story - as told to acknowledge LRA expert Ledio Cakaj - provides a unique, unsettling and often astonishing insight into the inner workings of the LRA. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.publisher BestRed en
dc.subject AFRICA en
dc.subject KONY en
dc.subject JOSEPH en
dc.subject LORDS RESISTANCE ARMY en
dc.title When the walking defeats you: one man's journey as Joseph Kony's bodyguard en
dc.type HSRC Press Books - non-HSRC authors en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.BudgetYear 2017/18 en
dc.PlaceOfPublication Cape Town en
dc.ArchiveNumber 10147 en
dc.outputnumber 9077 en
dc.bibliographictitle Cakaj, L. (2017) When the walking defeats you: one man's journey as Joseph Kony's bodyguard. Cape Town: BestRed. en
dc.publicationyear 2017 en
dc.contributor.author1 Cakaj, L. en


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