Bundibugyo is just a few kilometers from the DR Congo border
where war is driving Congolese families to seek refuge in Uganda. These Bundibugyo
communities tend to be a happy mixture of nationalities, languages, and
customs. I attribute this acceptance to recent memories of their own war-torn
past resulting from the likes of rulers like Idi Amin and Joseph Koney.
Though one young pastor-refugee reported that after crossing
the border, a Ugandan man took his wife. Very likely she felt that as a refugee
her husband could no longer provide for her. Given the very practical nature of
marriage in these East African village communities, her survival was surer in
the hands of the Ugandan. The sad realities of life in such places.