BOOK LAUNCH WITH THE AUTHOR
I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army
Edited with an Introduction and History Chapter by UBC Professor Erin Baines
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Japan Society, Murase Room
333 E 47th Street,
New York, NY 10017
RSVP by June 10 by emailing emily.kenney@unwomen.org
Follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #IAmEvelyn
Please join author Evelyn Amony for the launch of her recently released memoir, I am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming my Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army. Reflecting on her life as the forced wife to Joseph Kony, leader of the armed group the Lord’s Resistance Army, Amony provides a rare glimpse inside the rebel group that continues to operate in Central and East Africa to date, nearly 30 years after it was founded.
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Abducted as a child, Amony first trained as Kony’s personal escort before becoming his wife at 14, bearing three of his children. Evelyn’s memoir recalls daily life at the centre of the LRA high command, including the challenges of daily life and navigating complex gender relations. Following her capture in 2004 and a brief reunion with her family, Evelyn participated in the Juba Peace Talks to act as a liaison between Kony and peace delegates. When the talks collapsed, Amony returned to care for her children and siblings in the grinding poverty that is life after the war in northern Uganda.
Now chair of the Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) composed of 900 survivors, Amony strives for justice and reparation on behalf of war-affected persons to date.
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“Evelyn Amony provides penetrating insights into one of the most notorious yet least understood armed groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army. This is an invaluable account of what a woman experienced during years in captivity and, after escaping, her struggle to regain her humanity and agency. Essential reading for anyone studying armed opposition groups, women and war, transitional justice, and recovery.”
—Dyan Mazurana, Tufts University
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