| #461905 in Books | 2000-05-30 | 2000-05-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.62 x6.51 x9.60l, | File type: PDF | 480 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Provocative postcolonial narrative|By Kigozi Peter|Isegawa's narrative of postcolonial Uganda teases out some of the most culturally pervasive themes in Ugandan social life without rendering them as caricatures. His critiques of Amin and Obote, of Indians and Europeans in Uganda, and of the entire colonial enterprise are spot on. Despite some occasionally clunky or repetitive p|.com |In his hugely impressive Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa renders the chaotic swirl of life in Uganda, from a lazy, remote village to the urban rush of Kampala. Containing within its 460 pages weddings, funerals, infidelities, public struggles w
Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda.
The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insan...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Abyssinian Chronicles | Moses Isegawa. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
