Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War (Women Writing Africa Ser.)

By: Goretti Kyomuhendo

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Synopsis: A Ugandan author&’s &“unsettling and richly atmospheric&” novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin&’s dictatorship (Publishers Weekly). Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen-year-old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self-proclaimed &“Last King of Scotland&” when troops of his use the local highway to escape anti-Amin Ugandan and Tanzanian allied forces. With her pregnant mother on the verge of labor, her brother anxious to join the Liberators, and a house full of hungry siblings, neighbors, and refugees, Alinda learns what it takes to endure terrible hardship, and to hope for a better tomorrow . . . Set in the seventies during Idi Amin&’s last year of rule, Waiting evokes the fear and courage of a close-knit society in a novel &“full of human interplay and pungent smaller events, told with a verbal chastity reflecting both tension and dawning adult consciousness&” (Booklist).