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Alice Lakwena & the Holy Spirits
War in Northern Uganda Heike Behrend
* forthcoming
Alice Lakwena & the Holy Spirits
War in Northern Uganda 1985–97
HEIKE BEHREND
Translated by Mitch Cohen
James Currey OXFORD
Fountain Publishers KAMPALA
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Originally published as
Behrend, Heike: Alice und die Geister: Krieg im Norden Uganda Munich: Trickster, 1993 (Uroboros; Vol. 4)
Translated with the financial support of Inter Nationes
ISBN 9970-02-197-4 (Fountain Publishers Paper)