This book is about the most devastating disaster since the bleak period of the Black Death catastrophe of 1347 to 1350 in Europe.

The mystifying illness broke out simultaneously amidst the most dissimilar communities imaginable. Those initially affected comprised of mainly heterosexual poverty-stricken Africans in Central Africa and the affluent gay communities in the flamboyant cities of California in America.

The new disease was named AIDS came close to wiping out an entire generation in Sub Saharan Africa. His power of narrative is immense and his descriptions so elaborate, nothing is left to the imagination. He makes the reader ‘see’ and ‘sense’ what actually transpired in the early days of the Aids pandemic and after that, the reader is firmly in his grip and casually or even happily feeding from his hand.

Never before has the story of Aids in Uganda and the world at large been captured with such a masterly display of wordcraft. This is a book that can be read for pleasure as a novel, for study as a documentary and for intellectual enrichment as a powerful and informed critique of the political economy of Aids.

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Peter Mugyenyi
FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS
Kampala

INTRODUCTION
It was just unthinkable!

Even in their wildest dreams, no resident of the sleepy rural south western Ugandan district of Rakai could have possibly imagined that this mystifying new affliction, which cropped up insidiously in their midst way back in 1980, would metamorphose into arguably the most catastrophic tragedy in the entire human history.

“Was it a curse, witchcraft, or a disease?” the bamboozled villagers wondered.

Nobody could figure out exactly where it came from and why it crept in to spoil the usually quiet village life of Kasensero, and neighbouring areas. The usual daily highlights were the early morning wake-up cockerel call, and the ravving engine noises of heavily-loaded long distance trucks that frequently made overnight stops in the area’s small trading centres on their way from the coastal ports to the neighbouring countries. However, in time, putting one and one together, the mystified inhabitants increasingly discerned an emerging pattern among the victims.

They first noticed that the mysterious affliction seemed to be confined to only a few scattered locations in the district. Then they increasingly noticed that it appeared to choose some particular persons, who adopted certain peculiar lifestyles. The early sufferers were by and large relatively well-off by the village standards. ...

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