Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda

by Kathy Cook

In October 1996, thirty Ugandan schoolgirls were abducted by the Lord�s Resistance Army and disappeared into the bush of Northern Uganda. The girls were raped and tortured before being forced to become child soldiers and sex slaves.

This was only one out of thousands of child kidnappings by merciless madman and rebel leader Joseph Kony. But for the battered civilians terrorized by rebel warfare and neglected by corrupt government, this was the breaking point. Something had to be done�the world needed to know and their girls needed to be brought home.

Kathy Cook�s one-on-one interviews with the surviving girls and their mothers make their fear, frustration, and suffering overwhelmingly real. With exceptional insight gained from on-location research, Cook gives us an authoritative account of how concerned parents, interfaith groups, politicians from Canada and the United States, and NGOs banded together in a struggle to rescue the girls and to mobilize a people, their country, and a global community.

An emotionally charged retelling of a heartbreaking true story, Stolen Angels reminds us of the importance of faith, strength, and determination in the face of adversity.

Genres: Nonfiction, Africa, Uganda, History

312 pages, Paperback

First published October 2, 2007

Reviews

[Lori McLellan]

Everyone should read this book, if for nothing else then to become more aware of what is happening outside of our borders. The book is about 30 girls kidnapped from St. Mary's College School for Girls in Northern Uganda's Aboke village in 1996 by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which was estimated to be made up of 90% abducted youth between ages 8 and 17. The world's largest army of children. After years of civilians being terrorized by rebel warfare and neglected by a corrupt government, the abduction of these 30 girls was the breaking point. The book is more than a story of the abducted girls and the terror and trauma that they endured, it also describes the origins of the LRA and the numerous heroic events of many people in attempting to bring peace to this nation and awareness to the world.

Kathy Cook has painstakingly done her research with 115 endnotes and three pages of bibliography. She has done an excellent job of bringing the atrocities of rebel warfare to light and reflecting the players involved, good and bad.

[HadiDee]

Interesting and horrific - a story that needs to be told but is so hard to read about.

[Dorothy Young]

This is a very well researched book on the kidnapped girls of Uganda and what happened to them. The reader gains a better understanding of what went on in Uganda and Sudan. This book is not for everyone because the author has not left out the gory details of the kidnapping and the warfare in these countries.

[Kathleen]

Very interesting. I learned a lot about the northern Uganda/Sudan conflict that I'm sad to say I was previously very ignorant about.

[cumulonimbus99]

3.75

[Marie]

Great book. Very moving and inspirational, although quite sad. Horrible what Joseph Kony has put Uganda through.

[Venous Salehi]

Very boring. Couldn't wait to finish it

[Bina Rai]

Everyone should read this book. If anything to get a deeper understanding of what's going on in Uganda. I couldn't put down the book once I started. This book will haunt me for a long time.

[Nakubulwa]

Amust read story if your intrested in knowing what happens out side you but at the some time sad and touching that horrible man did alot of evil things but God will judge him

[Mrs. Gallagher]

reading in preparation for our Uganda unit- very difficult subject matter.