Description: Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel leader: he is said to take his orders directly from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalized child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Joseph Kony is now an internationally wanted criminal, and yet nobody really knows who he is or what he is fighting for. Intrigued by the myths, Matthew Green heads off into a war zone, meeting the victims, the peacemakers and the regional powerbrokers as he tracks down the man himself. The Wizard of the Nile is the first book to peel back the layers of mysticism and murky politics surrounding Kony, to shine a searching light onto this forgotten conflict, and to tell the gripping human story behind an inhumane war and a humanitarian crisis.
Brief description: Born in 1976, MATTHEW GREEN studied African politics at university, and has spent four years on the ground in East Africa as a reporter for Reuters.He is now the West Africa correspondent for the Financial Times. This is his first book.
Review Quotes: "Splendidly spun... A fine, brave book... illuminates a rarely understood part of the world."