Nsuma and the war

I wrote a children's book about a girl child soldier in Uganda. It is quite sad, but the ending has some hope. Since 1987, an etsimated 20,000 children have been ubducted by the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) in Uganda. 10,000 in the past two years alone. They are used as spies, mine detectors, porters of heavy loads of arms and ammunition. The fact that weapons are now produced to be ever more easy to handle and light-weight, enables children to use them, too. Often against their own families.
Some people might ask, whether a book like that is appropriate for children and whether a book about arguing and finding peaceful solutions would be better. And, of course, children do not HAVE to deal with this topic and should not be forced to. However, children do not live in isolation and in one way or the other, they find out about what is going on in the world: be it through the news, by overheraing their parents talk about it, or by getting to know children at school, who have come from parts of the world where they were involved in armed conflict. Engaging children in a book like this will give them the opportunity to voice questions and talk about their thoughts and fears with their parents.