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When the Walking Defeats You: One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard de Ledio Cakaj

When the Walking Defeats You: One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard

Autor Ledio Cakaj
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2016
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a cultish Christian rebel group operating in Uganda and in other parts of Eastern and Central Africa, has been accused of widespread human rights violations for decades. It has been reviled for its use of child soldiers and sexual slavery, as well as for waging a long campaign of violence and terror across a large swathe of the region. Educated and harboring humanitarian dreams of becoming a teacher, George Omona would thus seem an unlikely recruit for the LRA. And yet, after he was expelled from high school, Omona was caught by the charismatic pull of the LRA’s messianic leader, Joseph Kony, and he came to think that joining the group might be his best chance for rebuilding his life. When the Walking Defeats You is his unlikely and powerful story.
 
Drawing on hours of interviews with Omona, Ledio Cakaj here offers a rare and fascinating insider account of one of the world’s most notorious terrorist groups. As Cakaj describes, Omona’s education and fluent command of English allowed him to rapidly rise through the ranks and eventually become a personal bodyguard to Kony himself. At Kony’s side, Omona spent almost three years with the group before finally making his escape, and his personal account of those years provides unique, unsettling, and often brutal insight into the inner workings of the LRA as well as the mind of its self-appointed prophet.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781783608126
ISBN-10: 1783608129
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: Halftones, black and white 10 ; Maps 3
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: ZED BOOKS
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Ledio Cakaj is an independent researcher who has worked for more than a decade in the Balkans and East and Central Africa and has spent many years studying the Lord’s Resistance Army for organizations including the World Bank, the Enough Project, Small Arms Survey, and Resolve.
 

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Selected Key Dates
Maps
 
Foreword by Roméo Dallaire
Introduction
 
Part One: Holding the Lion’s Tail
1.  The Blessed Land of Peace and Rest: Part One
2. The Savior of Acholiland
3. Killing Rambo
4. Kony’s Jungle Home
5. Yankee
6. A General Who Kills
7. A Prisoner of Spirits
8. War Is Coming
9. Kicking the Hornets’ Nest
10. A Real Rebel
 
Part Two: Waiting for the Whistle
11. The Blessed Land of Peace and Rest: Part Two
12. The Devil’s Children
13. Disco
14. When the Walking Defeats You
15. No Joy in the World
16. Dwog Paco
 
Epilogue: Far From Home
Author Note
Selected Bibliography
Index
 

Recenzii

“When the Walking Defeats You is that rare achievement: an account of a rebel movement as seen from the inside. Cakaj’s meticulously researched account takes the reader into the heart of one of Africa’s most feared organizations, capturing the mundane brutality of life in the LRA.”
 

“Cakaj renders interview subject George Omona’s story of joining the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda with a somber and assured tone. . . . The book captures the fierceness of infighting within the group and the powerful hold exerted on it by founder Joseph Kony.”

“What makes this book exceptional are the sections voiced by ‘George’ (names are changed). Cakaj’s real-life protagonist spent three years in the bush with the LRA, much of it serving as Kony’s own bodyguard. He is a doubly useful informant, at once an insider and an outsider, unlike his fellow fighters, he was an educated young townie who joined voluntarily, not a peasant-child from a rural Acholi village, abducted at gunpoint and then forced to kill. . . . George’s unflinching narrative of his experiences—including the murder of unarmed civilians—reads like a particularly dark crime procedural: an account of how to say alive, and even find a measure of belonging, at the heart of a paranoid self-propelled death cult.”

“A heartbreaking story, unmasking the everyday complexities of a most gruesome and sorrowing war. Absolutely remarkable!”

“A remarkable first-hand account of life in the LRA, providing a compelling and convincing perspective on what it was like to be a combatant.”

“As I read this book, I read my own experiences and what I went through. It is a story that all people should know about: how men, women, and children suffer and survive conflict.”

“This is a unique and compelling account that effectively intertwines the biographical account of George Omona (fictional name)—a young man who voluntarily joined and fought for the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Eastern Congo between 2007 and 2010 before escaping—with the wider narrative of an ongoing conflict. . . . An important addition to the literature on the LRA and rebel groups more broadly.”

“Cakaj skillfully takes the reader inside the harrowing world of the LRA. Interspersed with stunning photography and reflections of persons who survived LRA attacks, a multi-layered story comes to life, further unfolding the complexities of such a devastating war.”

“A deep and intimate portrait of the daily life of a child soldier. His book deserves to take its place next to books like Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone and Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation in the sad catalog of stories about children at war.”

“Gripping and gleaming with insight. Cakaj leads the reader into the very heart of one of Africa’s least-understood but most enduring rebel movements.”

“A gripping portrayal of a rebel fighter’s harrowing journey in central Africa. Without pulling punches, Cakaj provides a human face to the notorious but often caricatured Lord’s Resistance Army.  An insightful tour-de-force by an author whose deep knowledge about this group shines through on almost every page.”

“Of all the books written about the LRA, this is the one that the politicians and diplomats should be reading. Cakaj puts us in the boots of the kids, pawns that nobody on the world stage can be bothered to save, left walking to this day.”

“Brilliantly weaves the dramatic and often horrifying experience of one man into a gripping story of two decades of the LRA war. A product of vast knowledge of the conflict, When the Walking Defeats You is sure to become a classic in the literature on conflict in Africa.”