Isegawa clearly means for Mugezi's story to parallel Uganda's, so he devotes much of the book to an almost journalistic account of national politics-General Idi Amin's rise to power, and his subsequent ouster at the hands of deposed president Milton Obote.
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Abyssinia may have become present-day Ethiopia, but the title of Isegawa's debut actually refers to Uganda-a ""land of false bottoms where under every abyss there was another one waiting to ensnare people."" Set in the postcolonial 1970s and '80s, when power struggles are the order of the day, the book is a bildungsroman following the life of narrator Mugezi Muwaabi, as he plots his own independence from tyrannical rulers (his parents) and capitalizes on his considerable natural resources of charm and intelligence.
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