Ugandan Martyrs: Race and sexuality collisions and revisions.
A despotic king orders his servants to perform sexual favours, they refuse, he slaughters them. A sexual revolutionary enraged by his subjects lack of sexual openness after their conversion to Christianity kills them. The story of the Ugandan martyrs is read in many ways, either through racial or queer retellings. Certain afrocentrists have presented King Mwanga II Basammula Ekkere as a bisexual man who was trying to resist foreign Christianity. Anti LGBT groups have written about this incident pointing out the depravity of gay people. Context in which these acts took place are lost in these politicised retellings. Christianity in the continent of Africa has had a long history appearing in the early days of when the faith was being established and also during colonial times. As with conversion through the centuries neo converts have had to negotiate their place in society, which often turns hostile towards them. Rejecting their non-Christian past converts ha...