Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
In 2015, the NRM government designated February 16 as a national holiday in commemoration of Archbishop Janani Luwum, whose outspokenness against the excesses of the Idi Amin regime, cost him his life. Today, Luwum is recognised as martyr in the Anglican Church and one of the greats in the modern African church. Luwum’s legacy stands tall in Uganda, a guiding light for our time.
Olara Otunnu writes in his book, Archbishop Janani Luwum- the Life and Witness of a 20th Century Martyr, that Luwum relentlessly called out Amin, decrying the killings and disappearances of Ugandans at the hands of Amin’s security machinery.