Before I went to Uganda, four years ago, I tried to read every book available on the country. I don't know if I was just a bad researcher - but I found very little material - and much of it was outdated. I wish that this book had been available - I never learned so much about Uganda and its history. I really appreciated being able to read a detailed history of Ugandan politics with an accompanying understanding of each regime's effects on the Ugandan people. All of this was told in the context of a politically motivated murder perpetrated by the infamous Idi Amin and the trial that occurred in the early 2000's. I really, really enjoyed this book - especially for the author's keen discussion on rule of law, justice, truth and reconcilitation, etc. It really shed a whole new light on my four months living there in 2007.