I Love Idi Amin

I Love Idi Amin

Written by Jeff Duncan

In 1986, Cheryl and I traveled on a short-term ministry trip to Uganda. We came to a country that had suffered for 15 years under two dictators who had devastated the country. Many may know the name Idi Amin, known for the genocide estimated to be more than a million, but less known is Milton Obote, who is also estimated to have eliminated more than 1 million of his enemies in genocide. Fifteen years of civil  war, corruption and genocide had left the country very different from Winston Churchill’s description of Uganda as “the Pearl of Africa.” We passed checkpoints with teenagers holding machine guns, roads that were often barely drivable, and infrastructure that was a mess. But what made it most real, however, was the day we were taken to a shed that was filled with dozens of skulls of the victims of the mass killings. 

The Dance

The Dance

Written by Jeff Duncan

The ship sailed up the river. The deck was full of people, people of all ages and from every nation. They had been rescued from the dark land. A band was playing on the deck. Their songs of joy were wafting over the ship. The music could be seen coming out of the instruments like ribbons of colour that twirled and twisted through the air....