Ledio Cakaj

When The Walking Defeats You (eBook, ePUB)

One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Deep in the Congo's Garamba National Park in the dead of night, Joseph Kony - the notorious warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court - made a shocking admission. Loosened by home-made wine, exposing a vulnerability he could never show the world, Kony looked George Omona in the eye, 'You need to know that if I had a choice I would not be doing this ... I wish I could be a man of books, like you.'

Three years earlier George was expelled from one of Uganda's best schools, just weeks before he was due to graduate with exemplary grades, destroying his dreams of becoming a teacher. In desperation, his uncle found him a role in Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). George's education and fluent command of English allowed him to rapidly rise through the ranks, eventually becoming one of Kony's bodyguards, before he finally made his escape.

George's story - based on many hours of interviews with acknowledged LRA expert Ledio Cakaj - provides a vivid, personal and fascinating insight into the inner workings of the LRA, and the mind of Kony, its self-appointed prophet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783608157
• Artikelnr.: 46910750

Autorenporträt

Ledio Cakaj is a researcher and writer focused on armed groups, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, both adults and children. He has worked for close to two decades in the Balkans and Central Africa. Cakaj spent eight years studying the Lord's Resistance Army, initially during a master's degree at Princeton University, and later working as a consultant for the World Bank, the Enough Project, Small Arms Survey and Resolve, among others.
Cakaj is a native Albanian, born in 1978. He left home at 16 years old, as Albania was plagued by violence and struggling to shed its communist past. He walked along with other unaccompanied minors to Greece where he worked odd jobs to survive. After four years without a legal status in Greece, Cakaj managed to migrate to England where he was able to return to school. Several years later, he completed high school and graduated with a degree in ancient and modern history from St. John's College, Oxford University, in 2005.
He now he lives in Washington DC with his wife and three young children.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Roméo Dallaire Introduction Part I: 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 the Spirits 8. War Is Coming 9. Kicking the Hornets' Nest 10. A
Real Rebel Part II: 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