The Man With The Key Has Gone

The place was the Luweero Triangle or the so called killing fields of Africa, where thousands of ordinary people had died in the preceding four years. I had driven into the area and witnessed hundreds of skulls and bones piled by the sides of the road.Tears dripped silently on to his lap and I realised that he was crying. Ando said something that I couldn't pick up. I bent closer. "I will be missing you," he repeated. It was my first experience of telling a close friend that he had AIDS.The gun was pointed at my head and someone was shouting, "Shoot that one! Shoot that one!" The thought flashed through my head, "Is this how it is all going to end?"The aftermath of civil war, AIDS and close encounters with death were all part of Ian and Robbie Clarke's experiences in Uganda. A window on the soul is opened up to us of life in the third world with all its problems, joys, tragedy and humour.