The cleric who exposed sex abuse in Uganda’s Catholic Church talks to Patience Akumu.
Father Anthony Musala waltzed into Uganda from England, where he was ordained, with change up his sleeves. When the Irish national of Ugandan origin released a music video in which he danced with abandon in his priestly robes, he dazzled and shocked conservative African Catholics.
‘It was something they had never seen,’ Musala, now 57, recalls. ‘A priest was supposed to be quiet.’
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