The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda by Andrew Rice. “One of those great non-fiction books that reads like fiction. The unraveling of the mysterious disappearance of a man in the midst of the Amin purges in the early 70's. The jacket says it best: "A detective story, a tale of fathers and sons, and a political history, this is above all an illumination of the wounded societies of modern Africa and an exploration of how - and whether - the past can ever be laid to rest." Full disclosure: I was born in Kampala in 1970, so I found this book incredibly fascinating/ chilling imagining all these horrific events unfolding in the city where my parents were living during that awful time of Idi Amin.”
