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Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
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Abyssinian Chronicles
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Kintu
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Nightmare Along the River Nile: A Story of Twentieth Century Slavery
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S.E. Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Wait for God to Notice
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Sari Fordham (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Kisses from Katie
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Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
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The Last King of Scotland
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First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
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Peter Eichstaedt (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 245 ratings
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A Girl Is a Body of Water
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Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda
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4.12 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Child of Dandelions
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Shenaaz Nanji (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 499 ratings
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The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village
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3.96 avg rating — 636 ratings
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Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War
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3.66 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Aboke Girls. Children Abducted in Northern Uganda
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3.92 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Canal House (Harvest Book)
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Mark Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda
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My Cleaner
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3.66 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Secrets No More
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3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda, 1868–1928: 1868-1928
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Smrtící byznys
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Hana Hindráková (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror
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Helen C. Epstein (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Father's Heart: His Delight, Your Destiny
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival
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Hilda Twongyeirwe (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
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White Teeth
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3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Crossroads: Women Coming of Age in Today's Uganda
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4.26 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Gravity of Sunlight
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3.26 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster
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3.77 avg rating — 3,137 ratings
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Snakepit
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3.30 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Lion's Eye: Seeing in the Wild
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3.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Beatrice's Goat
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Page McBrier (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 734 ratings
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
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3.98 avg rating — 15,748 ratings
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Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children
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3.65 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Unknown Soldier, Vol. 1: Haunted House
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Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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The Ghosts of Eden
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3.83 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Piercing the Night: A Life on the Edge in Post-Amin Uganda
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Child Soldier
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3.86 avg rating — 224 ratings
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My Driver
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3.48 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Kosiya Kifefe
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda, Revised Edition
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Thor Hanson (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Mzungu: A Notre Dame Student in Uganda
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2.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Tears of Hope: A Collection of Short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women
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Ayeta Anne Wangusa (Editor)
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Tears on the Equator - Muzungu
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Gerasimos I. Kambites (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
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Sharon E. McKay (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony
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4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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I, Charles, from the Camps
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Joel D. Hirst (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Where The Air Is Sweet
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Tasneem Jamal (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 498 ratings
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When The Walking Defeats You: One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard
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4.29 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Manchester Happened
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3.95 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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Keepers of the Cattle (Signal Books)
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I love Idi Amin: The story of triumph under fire in the midst of suffering and persecution in Uganda
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3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Fong and the Indians
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3.24 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Orange for the Sunsets
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Tina Athaide (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 939 ratings
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Inferno (Galactic Comedy, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 167 ratings
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The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
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3.89 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The White Nile
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4.12 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
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4.23 avg rating — 1,548 ratings
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Revolutionary Love
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3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings
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How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
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4.20 avg rating — 4,824 ratings
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Assassins in the Cathedral: Festo Kivengere (Trailblazer Books #28)
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3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
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4.15 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Army of God: Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa
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2.99 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Designed by Father God by Dave Carroll (2014-08-06)
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The Man with the Key Has Gone!
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3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Song for the Sun in Us (Vitabu Vya Nyota Series, 8)
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Boda Boda Anthem and Other Poems: a Kampala Poetry Anthology
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Mildred K Barya (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Headline That Morning
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3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Elizabeth of Toro: The Odyssey of an African Princess: An Autobiography
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami
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The First Daughter
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3.64 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Bunyoro: An African Kingdom
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Uganda's poorly kept secrets
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First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
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Eve Brown-Waite (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
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The Night of Knives
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Jon Evans (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Upon This Mountain (African Writers Series)
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The Forgotten Children: Hungry, Hopeless, Running for Their Lives
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The Ares Decision (Covert-One, #8)
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Kyle Mills (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 5,511 ratings
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Warrior Herdsmen
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The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
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Thirty Girls
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Susan Minot (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 2,541 ratings
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In a Free State
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A Visit from the Leopard: Memories of a Ugandan Childhood
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James Roberts (Illustrator)
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Dream of Darkness
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Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
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Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from HIV/AIDS Killed Millions
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Pale Souls Abroad And Other Tales
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Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators
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Teens in South Africa
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African Adventure
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Elephant Adventure
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War Brothers
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Sharon E. McKay (Goodreads Author)
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The Invisible Weevil
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Fate of the Banished
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The Bush
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The Hailstorm Feather
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Of Saints and Scarecrows
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Footprints of the Outsider
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Gifts of Harvest
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Hare and Hornbill
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The Kind Gang
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I tutor primary four students in Uganda, and I want to find an age appropriate book to teach them about the history of their country. Do you have any recommendations?
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Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
