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"Even if Peter Allen had been a police officer before he went to Uganda, nothing could have prepared him for his extraordinary life there. He had to discover for himself the traffic light system: Africans observed that Europeans went on green, Asians went on amber - so they drove off on red. And how do you catch a thief hiding in a lake? By shouting 'Crocodile!' to flush him out." "Allen's career progressed and he became a magistrate. After Uganda's independence, he travelled the country as a Chief Magistrate, hearing improbable claims of witchcraft and wife-stealing. Distressingly, his beloved adopted country was ravaged by civil war and terrorised by Idi Amin, who even banned the wearing of flip-flops (punishment: eating them)." "But Allen steadfastly remained, becoming a High Court judge and finally Chief Justice, until he himself became the victim of the Africanisation he had so long championed. Fortunately, he and his diaries survived to tell the many remarkable tales of his 32 years of service in Uganda."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9781857764680 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1857764684 |
| List Price | $34.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 670 pages |
| Publisher | Book Guild Ltd |
| Published On | 2000-08-01 |
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