Acholi for Beginners
Author: Festo Okidi
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
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Acholi Dictionary -English
Author: Taban Ongee
Publisher:
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780648242239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForeword This dictionary is published without any funding or assistance from any source. I published this dictionary through the Ongee Foundation, Gang kwan me Acholi. It is money I earned personally from work as an interpreter which has enabled me to write this book under the name of my business. As a language Acholi is used in business, culture, telecommunications and travel. Acholi is spoken in Uganda and South Sudan. Small numbers of Acholi people migrated to Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Europe and Scandinavia and some of the older people who settled in those countries still practise the language. Because of the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, who, for some time, have terrorised the Ugandan civilian population, the Acholi language has been used in the International Tribunal Court to try those who have committed human rights abuses against civilians in Northern Uganda. This dictionary is intended for those who are already fluent in speaking and writing Acholi. If you do not feel you are advanced in speaking and writing the Acholi language then you should use an Acholi beginner dictionary rather than this one. English words are rich in figurative language and I have attempted to provide the equivalent phrase in Acholi (as well as supplying the literal meaning). Due to funding restrictions I have not been able to employ a peer editor and so have decided not to use phonetic characters and accents. Unfortunately, this includes those words which have the same spelling but can only be distinguished by the accents. With increased funding I hope to rectify this is in future editions. I finished High school in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya and from therew migrated to Australia in 2006. In Kakuma, I worked as a Deputy Head Master in a primary school and a volunteer editor for the Kakuma News Bulletin. In Australia I graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2010 with a Bachelor of Media degree with Honours. I have worked with several companies in Australia as an interpreter working on-site, over the telephone and also in the detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru employed by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Please enjoy your reading or studying.
Acholi Intellectuals
Author: Patrick William Otim
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2024-02-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0821442376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrick William Otim argues that the Acholi people of northern Uganda, who helped Europeans spread colonial rule and Christianity, were far more politically savvy than previously understood.
Lango and Acholi Alphabet and Vocabulary
Author: Filda Abelkec-Lukonyomoi
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-10-22
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guide on the Lango and Acholi written and spoken language of the Northern Ugandan Region. This book contains an introduction and guide to the Lango and Acholi alphabet and vocabulary. A language spoken by the Langi and Acholi of the Northern Ugandan region through a series of exercises, puzzles and tales told around fire pits passed on through generations.
Genocide: The Basics
Author: Paul R. Bartrop
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-19
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1317644573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenocide: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the study of a controversial and widely debated topic. This concise and comprehensive book explores key questions such as; how successful have efforts been in the prevention of genocide? How prevalent has genocide been throughout history? and how has the concept been defined? Real world case studies address significant issues including: The killing of indigenous peoples by colonial powers The Holocaust and the question of "uniqueness" Peacekeeping efforts in the 1990s Legal attempts to create a genocide-free world With suggestions for further reading, discussion questions at the end of each chapter and a glossary of key terms, Genocide: The Basics is the ideal starting point for students approaching the topic for the first time.
Youth at the crossroads
Author: Julia Vorhölter
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 3863951697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on eleven months of field work (2009-2011), this book analyzes the situation of youth in urban Gulu, Northern Uganda, in the aftermath of the war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government (1986-2006). Specifically, it focuses on the generation that was born and grew up during the 20-year war: How do members of this generation perceive and evaluate socio-cultural changes which occurred in Acholi society throughout the war years? How do they imagine their future society? And how do they react to the expectations directed at them by their elders? In order to answer these questions, the book draws on rich ethnographic material. It provides an in-depth analysis of how imaginations of the post-war society are contested and negotiated between different groups of social actors – youth and elders, men and women as well as local, national and international actors. While some try to re-establish former cultural practices and conventions and call for a ‘retraditionalization’ of Acholi society, others lobby for ‘modernization’ and attempt to establish ‘new’ social structures, values and norms which are strongly influenced by local understandings of ‘the Western culture’. The book presents numerous examples of the multiple and complex ways young people strategically position themselves in these debates and make use of the various discourses on culture, tradition and modernity in their negotiations of generational, gender, family, and peer-to-peer relations.
Living with Bad Surroundings
Author: Sverker Finnström
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-02-20
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0822388790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight. Many observers have perceived Acholiland and northern Uganda to be an exception in contemporary Uganda, which has been celebrated by the international community for its increased political stability and particularly for its fight against AIDS. These observers tend to portray the Acholi as war-prone, whether because of religious fanaticism or intractable ethnic hatreds. In Living with Bad Surroundings, Sverker Finnström rejects these characterizations and challenges other simplistic explanations for the violence in northern Uganda. Foregrounding the narratives of individual Acholi, Finnström enables those most affected by the ongoing “dirty war” to explain how they participate in, comprehend, survive, and even resist it. Finnström draws on fieldwork conducted in northern Uganda between 1997 and 2006 to describe how the Acholi—especially the younger generation, those born into the era of civil strife—understand and attempt to control their moral universe and material circumstances. Structuring his argument around indigenous metaphors and images, notably the Acholi concepts of good and bad surroundings, he vividly renders struggles in war and the related ills of impoverishment, sickness, and marginalization. In this rich ethnography, Finnström provides a clear-eyed assessment of the historical, cultural, and political underpinnings of the civil war while maintaining his focus on Acholi efforts to achieve “good surroundings,” viable futures for themselves and their families.
Uganda
Author: Philip Briggs
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781841621821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thoroughly revised and updated guide to East Africa's center of adventure.
Imitating Christ in Magwi
Author: Todd D. Whitmore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0567684199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImitating Christ in Magwi: An Anthropological Theology achieves two things. First, focusing on indigenous Roman Catholics in northern Uganda and South Sudan, it is a detailed ethnography of how a community sustains hope in the midst of one of the most brutal wars in recent memory, that between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. Whitmore finds that the belief that the spirit of Jesus Christ can enter into a person through such devotions as the Adoration of the Eucharist gave people the wherewithal to carry out striking works of mercy during the conflict, and, like Jesus of Nazareth, to risk their lives in the process. Traditional devotion leveraged radical witness. Second, Gospel Mimesis is a call for theology itself to be a practice of imitating Christ. Such practice requires both living among people on the far margins of society – Whitmore carried out his fieldwork in Internally Displaced Persons camps – and articulating a theology that foregrounds the daily, if extraordinary, lives of people. Here, ethnography is not an add-on to theological concepts; rather, ethnography is a way of doing theology, and includes what anthropologists call “thick description” of lives of faith. Unlike theology that draws only upon abstract concepts, what Whitmore calls “anthropological theology” is consonant with the fact that God did indeed become human. It may well involve risk to one's own life – Whitmore had to leave Uganda for three years after writing an article critical of the President – but that is what imitatio Christi sometimes requires.
What Is War?
Author: Mary Ellen O'Connell
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9047425812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational law has lacked a widely-accepted definition of armed conflict despite the essential human rights and other rules that depend on such a definition. During armed conflict, government forces have “combatant immunity” to kill without warning. They may detain enemy forces until the end of the conflict without the requirement to provide a speedy and fair trial. Governments may have asylum obligations or neutrality obligations based on the existence of armed conflict. To fill this gap in our knowledge of the law, the International Law Association's Committee on the Use of Force produced a report on the meaning of armed conflict. This book contains the report and papers delivered at an inter-disciplinary conference designed to inform the committee from a variety of perspectives.
