This is a highly accessible anthropological study of Northern Uganda and the LRA. It is useful in part because it establishes the colonial legacies though which the Acholi came to be marginalized in Uganda and stereotyped by the international community. Rather than basing his account on simplistic explanations like 鈥渁ncient ethnic hatreds鈥� between the Acholi and other Ugandans, Finnstr枚m provides a rich array of interviews with Northern Ugandans that touch on cultural, historical, and political aspects of the war. In particular, he highlights the voices of young people, whom he says 鈥渄id not passively wait for outside solutions; rather, in everyday life they built for a future despite displacement and social unrest.鈥�
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