It’s ironic that those who claim to defend/protect our indigenous heritage, more often than not end up defending foreign imports that the foreigners who brought them in the first place have largely discarded. The missionaries from the west and east were quick to demonise and suppress our indigenous culture and practices and surgically transplant their own beliefs onto the converted by persuasion, both gentle and coercion. It’s a tribute to their efforts that, in these times, Africans are taking up arms to defend practices and philosophies that are prostheses from the old west, relics of a different epoch. And they now have erstwhile partners too, we have now substituted the European colonialists for the conservative American evangelicals, and are now fighting their fight. They have managed to drag us into their mess as the fresh foot-soldiers while the armchair generals direct the war effort from across the pond, we are pawns in a high stakes game, we are the expendables. And the sad thing about it, we may wake up too late to smell the coffee that’s a brewing!

If I were you I would not pop the champagne bottles yet. To borrow from your beloved Bible : the Ugandan State “works in mysterious ways”. You will be shocked when the revised form of the Bill suddenly becomes law. There is simply no way the Ugandan people will allow their desire to protect their culture from Western debauchery to be vetoed by Euro-American Gay Lobby Groups (using European and US governments as proxies).

Now, can we or the people of Uganda hope to stop Museveni from spending $300 million of his country’s anticipated petro-shilings needlessly on six Russian Su30MK2 multirole jet fighter planes instead of need improvements in his country?