Alumni Travel Reading 2018-2019: Uganda: Gorillas in the Rift

"Mountain Gorillas takes you deep into the montane rain forests of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to reveal the complex story of the mountain gorillas of the Virunga Volcanos and Bwindi." From the publisher

This volume compiles research on how high altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation status of primates, especially in comparison to lowland populations.

Reading this book will help you to learn more about conserving wild populations of gorillas throughout Africa as it looks at a variety of approaches, including the increased role for zoos.

The most comprehensive and current text on primates by the leading researchers in the field. Written for the aspiring primatologist.

Primate Ethnographies, is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions.

An overview of the current state of Ugandan society.

Cultural landscapes range from european farms and forest lands to deserts and savannas of the Middle East and Africa. Unique characteristics have survived human intervention, but others are being lost to development and climate change. This book documents the changes through detailed case studies of threatened landscapes and considers the possibilities for preservation and sustainability.

"With numbers down to just 20,000, many experts believe, that without effective conservationplans in place, Africa's remaining lions will be wiped out by the mid half of this century. Sara Evans considers the cultural significance of the Lion over thousands of years as well as its historic rise and fall as a global species." The Publisher.

Although this text is abuot Zambia's central Luangwa Valley, it is a microcosm of the political, economic and cultural battlefields surrounding most African protected areas today.

Human activity has encroached on natural habitats throughout equatorial Africa, endangering chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos. In an effort to understand what an approach to saving the great apes, Merrick talks with primatologists and conservationists who are working to protect the forests and ecosystems that support the great apes.

The World Heritage Convention provides an international platform for safeguarding cultural and natural heritage, and a showcase for the diversity of African heritage. This work investigates the rich geographic, ecological, and wildlife diversity of the African continent.

Winner of the Text Book Center Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2017 Adult category, this novel explores the impact of poaching on wildlife and human communities.

"Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope. At the center of this unforgettable tale is Mugezi, a young man who manages to make it through the hellish reign of Idi Amin and experiences firsthand the most crushing aspects of Ugandan society: he withstands his distant father's oppression and his mother's cruelty in the name of Catholic zeal, endures the ravages of war, rape, poverty, and AIDS, and yet he is able to keep a hopeful and even occasionally amusing outlook on life. Mugezi's hard-won observations form a cri de coeur for a people shaped by untold losses." From the Publisher