This book is 90% travelogue and at most 10% historical eyewitness account Nevertheless it is a fascinating portrait of a developing country at a pivotal point in its history Bert Adams
When Bert and Diane Adams moved to Uganda in 1970 they had no idea that a few months later General Idi Amin would overthrow the government in a coup and rule Uganda with brutal force in the coming years In this book Bert Adams a sociology professor from the United States tells his family s story of their time in Uganda at the beginning of the Amin era Bert s assignment was to teach sociology at the prestigious Makerere University With a down to earth writing style and a keen eye for observation Bert has captured Uganda as it was in the early 1970s as they met and fell in love with the Ugandan people and then traveled around the country in their old Volkswagen bus An American Family in Amin s Uganda gives an inside view of one family s attempt to live a normal life teaching singing making friends putting on dramatic productions sight seeing in a country that was beginning to unravel under Amin s increasingly erratic and brutal rule of terror An American Family in Amin s Uganda
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