August 05, 2009 - —
Reflecting on another summer in East Africa, I am reminded that there are ghettos, and there are ghettos.
Most of the African news that reaches our Western evangelical ghettos is bad - very bad. In 1994, a million murdered in Rwanda in 100 days - more people slaughtered more rapidly in the Rwandan genocide than at any other time in history. Forty thousand bodies flowed down the Kagera River into Uganda's Lake Victoria. In 1983, the Second Sudanese Revolution yielded 2 million Sudanese dead, and another 4 million driven into refuge ...
