The Pattern of this World
A Ugandan Catholic priest, the child of Rwandan parents -- one Hutu and the other Tutsi -- explains how missionary Christianity helped create the divisions that led to genocide.
Looking back at the history of Rwanda, it is striking to see how the church could name the injustice of the colonial system without fundamentally questioning its power to determine who people are. In all of this, no one was ever able to say that the racial categories of Hutu and Tutsi were part of the colonialists’ propaganda. Rwandans didn’t even get rid of their identity cards. Hutu and Tutsi had become so fixed—so natural—that people could not ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
