The first - and long overdue - book on Joseph Kony is out. It is titled The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted.
Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel-leader: he is said to take his orders direct from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalised child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country.
The Wizard of the Nile is Matthew Green's account of his search for Africa's most wanted war criminal, General Joseph Kony.
The Wizard of the Nile is the first book to peel back the layers of mysticism and murky politics surrounding Kony, to shine a searching light onto this conflict, and to tell the gripping human story behind an inhumane war and a humanitarian crisis.
'Matthew Green has penetrated the heart of one of Africa's darkest wars in which thousands of children were abducted and trained to attack villages in Northern Uganda for over two decades. This a penetrating insight into one of the worst conflicts in the world' ~ Jon Snow
Hosted by the Royal African Society and the Centre of African Studies, in association with Portobello Books
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