I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299304949 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Evelyn Amony provides penetrating insights into one of the most notorious yet least understood armed groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army. This is an invaluable account of what a woman experienced during years in captivity and, after escaping, her struggle to regain her humanity and agency. Essential reading for anyone studying armed opposition groups, women and war, transitional justice, and recovery.”—Dyan Mazurana, Tufts University
Judith Dushku said And I am so happy I did. Since I have an ngo in Gulu, Uganda that supports women who share similar life experiences with Evelyn, I was eager to read this book. And I am so happy I did. It is such an honest and rich account of what her life was like, both during her time in the bush and since. I thought I knew a lot about what the thousands of women and men went through in captivity, but I learned new things about that experience on every page of Evelyn's book. The detail helps explain so many things that are often seen as contradictions, such as her tightly-held faith i. Remarkable and Heartwrenching. Suzanne K. Having read First Kill Your Family, The Lost Boys of Sudan, and many other first person accounts of atrocities committed against children, I know and respect this genre and the young authors who courageously tell their story. Evelyn's is unique. The eventual prominence of her place in the Lord's Resistance Army makes her a memorable eye witness. As she tells how she eventually came to be chosen to be Joseph Kony's "wife" and have three of his children, you are drawn into the everyday misery and drama of her life on the run. Her harrowing near de. "A brave and important book" according to J. D. Williams. History is not a one-sided story. Even evil is not always so. This is a brave and important book, and I am grateful to Evelyn Amony for her courage in sharing her experiences with the LRA. For readers interested only in Hollywood notions of right and wrong, look elsewhere. This book is about the real experiences of people who have lived through unimaginable things, and reality is always, always more complicated--and more human--than we are led to believe.
Her account unflinchingly conveys the moral difficulties of choosing survival in a situation fraught with violence, threat, and death. She takes the reader into the inner circles of LRA commanders and reveals unprecedented personal and domestic details about Joseph Kony. She recounts those experiences, as well as the stigma she and her children faced when she returned home as an adult. Best books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association. Abducted at the age of eleven, Evelyn Amony spent nearly eleven years inside the Lord’s Resistance Army, becoming a forced wife to Joseph Kony and mother to his children. This extraordinary testimony shatters stereotypes of war-affected women, revealing the complex ways that Amony navigated life inside the LRA and her current work as a human rights advocate to make a better life for her children and other women affected by war. Despite the trauma she endured with the LRA, Amony joined a Ugandan pe