ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My sincere thanks to: Thomas Edward Otto, LL.B., a Ugandan Canadian currently enrolled to be licensed as a barrister and solicitor by the Law Society of Upper Canada; Opiyo Oloya, a school principal and Ph.D. student originally from Gulu, Uganda; Akullo Evelyn Otwili, a translator and university student in Gulu; Okello Moses Rubangangeyo, a former lieutenant and brigade administrator officer (rank while in captivity in the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA); and to those in the NGO offices in Gulu who helped in many ways. Thank you.

If this book has any merit, if it resonates at all, it is because of Catherine Marjoribanks’ careful and dedicated editing. With all my heart, thank you Catherine.

Thanks to Ann Ball, Donna Patton, Shelley Grieve, and Linda Bronfman, great friends who said what they thought and damn the torpedoes.

And thanks to Hannah Grieve, Holly and Jack Caldwell, John McNally, Kimberleigh and William Sparrow, Jeremy Hlusko, and Melissa Bellm. Then there is Mary Askwith, who put up with her mom gabbing on the phone for hours. (Mary, she was talking to me.)

Thanks to Julia Bell, intrepid and fearless traveler to Uganda.

Thanks to Adrian Bradbury, founder and director of GuluWalk and darn fine travel agent.

Thanks to Ian Elliot, Different Drummer, Burlington, Ontario, who searched the world for reference books; Katie Hearn at Annick; and copy editor Laurel Sparrow, a late comer to the project but very welcome.

And finally thanks to Laurel, Kai, Sam, Joe, and David.