By Benoni Mugarura-Mutana

It usually takes Joy and me between 30 and 45 minutes to travel from Lweza, where our son Peter and his wife Fiona live, to the Joy Center in Wakiso.  But the evening of 10^th September 2009 was different.  What started off as a quiet day of reflection on the goodness of God ended in madness!

Riots in Kampala (Photo credit: The EastAfrican)

Joy and I spent more than four hours driving through back roads in the middle of swamps and valleys and over strange hills to find our way out of the riots that engulfed Kampala city.  We and hundreds of other Ugandan were trapped in the confusion that broke out when the Uganda Police Force and the Central Government prevented the Kabaka of Buganda from visiting a district to the east of Kampala. (more…)