Word: ugandan
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Number of Ugandan peacekeepers the African Union has deployed in Somalia so far. On April 3, Western diplomats said Ethiopian forces should not leave until a robust A.U. force is in place...
...judges. “Of course it’s a risk—he has published only one short book—but we thought it worth taking,” Jack wrote. Iweala’s novel was inspired in part by China Keitetsi, a Ugandan child soldier who addressed the Harvard African Students Association in Iweala’s junior year, according to a Crimson article. The book began as Iweala’s creative thesis and has since been translated into 11 languages and won numerous awards, including the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award...
...relationship turns parasitic and British talent gets sucked into the Hollywood machine, never to return home. But most of the time, there's give and take. The U.S. system gives some funding or a distribution deal, and, in return, it gets a good story. Kevin Macdonald's portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin The Last King of Scotland was made with mostly British funding, giving him the freedom to make his movie his way. "If I tried to do The Last King of Scotland through the U.S. studio system, it would be a very different film, if it had ever...
...only film this year to fully realize the aesthetic potential of violence is “The Last King of Scotland,” a movie in which the depicted killings serve as a metaphor for the Ugandan genocide and thus magnify the atrociousness of Forest Whitaker’s magnetic and terrifying Idi Amin. But even when you forget that the film is about a historical tragedy, you still anxiously feel that everyone in the film is a piece of meat waiting to be hacked to pieces; when the butcher comes, it feels disturbingly right...
...began her presentation on the situation in Uganda by screening a short documentary that captured the horrific conditions of concentration camps in Norther Uganda. The film provided alarming statistics on the lack of access to water and basic health care. “Unlike the situation in Darfur, the Ugandan crisis has gone on for twenty years,” Boston said. “Nine percent of the population is trapped in these camps, where 95 percent of the residents live in abject poverty, where thousands die every month of disease and malnutrition, where the children are forced...