![]() ![]() Protagonist goes by the African name of Mugezi according to his Warfare, sectarian violence, corruption, and chaos.īorn John Chrysostom Noel to Serenity and Padlock, the young He "pickles" history, to use Rushdie's term, in order toīring to the reader a postcolonial situation of dictatorship, guerrilla Saleem of Salman Rushdie's 1981 classic Midnight's Children. Mugezi, the protagonist and narrator, is handcuffed to history a la Masterful fashion, chronicling the rise and fall of the famous Ugandanĭictator Idi Amin and the accompanying political and social upheavals. This delightful bildungsroman, he weaves history and imagination in a ![]() MOSES ISEGAWA, WHO FLED his native Uganda in 1990 to become a DutchĬitizen, appropriately titles his debut novel Abyssinian Chronicles. ![]()
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