When a leader, for purely selfish interests to stay in power, amends a constitution, whose making and promulgation he presided over, it may be valid to use the figure of incest to tell such a story. Incest of the worst kind – between father and daughter! William Shakespeare used this figure in his play; Pericles Prince of Tyre: “This king unto him took a fere, Who died and left a female heir, So buxom, blithe, and full of face, As heaven had lent her all his grace; With whom the father liking took, And her to incest did provoke: Bad child; worse father! to entice his own” In Uganda, it’s now custom and not sin. Luckily, Shakespeare addressed this by portraying King Antiochus as having turned evil into a custom which was both futile and deadly for he never meant for anyone to take away his daughter/wife read power. “To evil should be done by none: But custom what they did begin Was with long use account no sin. The beauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame, To seek her as a bed-fellow, In marriage-pleasures play-fellow: Which to prevent he made a law, To keep her still, and men in awe, That whoso askd her for his wife, His riddle told not, lost his life: So for her many a wight did die, As yon grim looks do testify. What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye I give, my cause who best can justify”. In Rwanda, Paul Kagame sought to justify this political incest by suggesting a public debate and if incest wins, so be it. He too does not call it sin. Shall this sin be accepted as custom in Rwanda?
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:52:51 +0000
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