Uganda: Museveni Right to Jump White Bull

[icymist]

FORMER presidential candidate Abed Bwanika was quoted in the press recently as asking President Yoweri Museveni to repent for the ritual of jumping over a carcass of a white bull the latter performed in Juba recently.

It is unfortunate that someone who wanted to be president can deny our great African heritage. This shows that the Europeans have fooled our minds, due to the power of the gun, and convinced us that our cultures and traditions are the source of whitchcraft. We have now picked up their cultures. This has taught us to accept humiliation and division, and to embrace eurocentric ideas that do not make us proud of who we are.

How could an African call an African tradition witchcraft? This proves that we have reached the climax of neo-colonialism and promotion of Westernism.

Our people in Acholiland have used beautiful, gracious and elegant ceremonies in our African tradition to welcome back deserters and former murderers into the community in a way that western kind of methods cannot comprehend. My brothers and sisters, forgiveness is not only taught in the modern Bible.

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Interesting take on a aborigine culture dealing with evangelical definitions of 'witch'.