God Loves Rwanda Essay

Growing up in east Africa and more specific in Rwanda where we are bordering Uganda in the north, has influenced me to pick the movie “God Loves Uganda” Rwanda are very close country and they have some similarities such as speaking same language in some region of the countries or how both leaders of both countries helped one another to liberate their country under dictatorship in Uganda and stopping genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda back in 1994. When I first saw this movie I was really thrilled and wanted to know what Ugandans are thankful for, that Rwandan don’t know.

God loves Uganda is an evangelical movie of American missionaries, as the result of breakthrough in 2009 when Uganda signed and anti-homosexual bill that criminalize LGBA and

kapya kaouma was the one conducting the research of rise of churches in Uganda specifically realized that international house for prayer had something beyond preaching gospel, which was to replicate their values to the Ugandans and spread the hatred of anti-homosexuality which they failed to apply in their country the united states. The churches in Uganda have a direct connection with churches in America where funds are raised and youth are trained and sent in Africa and preach about the ideology of homophobia, where Scotty Lively one of American anti-gay activist strongly say in this film that gays were largely responsible for Nazism which is really insane and mind puzzling whereas gay were also the victims. Another Ugandan pastor compare homosexuality as an act of killing in way the gay couple preventing to produce arguing that God created a man and a woman to produce, these pastors they go even further showing inappropriate images of man licking in the anal passage of another man representing what gay people do. All this homophobia message, to this poor population of Uganda have taken it to another level and started violence and protesting against anybody supporting LGBT eventually, one of the gay activist was killed and others get death threats. As they mentioned in this film that around 50% of population in Uganda is under 15 years old and most of them had no chance to access school and don’t know how read which in return prevent them to access to the information.