The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),led by the infamous Joseph Kony, wasactive in northern Uganda from thesecond half of the 1980s. The rebel groupbecame notorious for the use of extremeviolence, in particular its large-scaleabductions of children. Rebel Lives is avisual story about life inside the rebelmovement: based on photographs takenby LRA commanders between 1994 and2004, this book documents life withinviolent circumstances, and depicts therebels as they wanted to be seen amongthemselves and by the outside world.Kristof Titeca, Associate Professor inDevelopment Studies at the Universityof Antwerp and expert on the LRA,collected this material, and used it totrace the photographed (former) rebels.Together with Congolese photographerGeorges Senga, he travelled back tophotograph the former rebels in theircurrent context.With text contributions from JonathanLittell, Harriet Anena, Rein Deslé, andChristine Oryema Lalobo.LHEASN ÉNDIIBTAIOL NPUS BHLAISNHNIINBGAL WWW.HANNIBALPUBLISHING.COMRebel LivesPhotographsfrom inside theLord'sResistanceArmyKristof Titeca'Disturbingly hauntingand banally quotidianat the same time.Based on meticulousresearch and astutewriting, with beautifulpoems and remarkablefollow-up photos, RebelLives unveils a layer ofhumanity that makes therebels' own photos worthunderstanding in thefirst place. It is a mostimportant historical
