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View ArticleLord’s Children: Introduction
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View ArticleLord’s Children: Audio: Filmmaker Notes
An interview with filmmaker Oliver Stoltz about the making of Lord’s Children. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/oliver-stoltz.mp3 OLIVER STOLTZ: My name is Oliver Stoltz....
View ArticleLord’s Children: Aaron Brown Interview: Betty Bigombe
WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown interviews Betty Bigombe, a former Ugandan government minister who is involved in negotiations with the Lord’s Resistance Army....
View ArticleLord’s Children: Video: Full Episode
The region of Northern Uganda was ravaged by one of Africa’s longest civil wars until 2006. For over 20 years, more than 65,000 children, some as young as five years old, have been kidnapped by...
View ArticleLord’s Children: Resources
UGANDA BBC Timeline Ugandan history CIA World Factbook: Uganda Information about Uganda’s government, demographics, and economy Katine Ongoing series about Uganda in the British newspaper The Guardian...
View ArticleLord’s Children: What You Can Do
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On the eve of the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe, WIDE ANGLE interviews Mahmood Mamdani, a Ugandan-born professor of government at Columbia University and an expert on African Studies....
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