"If you have it in your heart to help, then please give. Who can give 50,000 shillings?" called out Bishop Gilson Costa of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.

"Jangu!" called out the man translating the Bishop's sermon.

"Who can give 40,000?"

"Jangu!"

Who can give 30,000?"

"Jangu!"

The day before April 17, they were called. The orders were vague, but orders are to be followed. They were to report to Kampala's Central Police Station the next morning for a job that would take some hours.

They arrived at Kampala's Central...

Ali Bashinski Ssemakula sported a nubby orange wool sweater in the warm Kampala sunshine. He didn't look Russian, but the sweater did.

"Nyabo," he asked the waitress. "That yellow cloth on your waist, does it stay clean all day while the table stays dirty?" Her towel hung dry...

"Birds of Eastern Africa," by Ber van Perlo, is an staple you'll find alongside any Lonely Planet book. The shelves are sparsely lined with guidebooks for individual East African countries, but Amazon lists Uganda's Popular Birds Handbook, Where to Watch Birds in Uganda, Check-List of Birds in Uganda, and others....