Hollywood film on LRA war hits cinemas

It is one man’s extraordinary journey. A drug addict and murderer who has had his run-ins with the police, has a stripper for a fiancé and basically lives his life upside down. But all that changes when his wife turns to God.She leads him back to the Lord and it is a journey that also restores the humane side of him, and thereby leading him to Africa and more precisely Northern Uganda. Gerald Butler leads you on a trip to the heart of the suffering, lost hope, ghastly deaths and more that characterised this war-ravaged part of Uganda at the hands of rebel leader Joseph Kony.It is a film based on real life events and Butler plays Sam Childers, a former drug-dealer and criminal who turned a machine gun preacher that came down to save kidnapped and orphaned children.The movie premiered last Wednesday at Cineplex Cinema- The Hub at Oasis Mall and Sam Childers was there to tell his inspiration for work that saw him journey from the US to war-torn Northern Uganda and later on South Sudan.“When I first stepped in Northern Uganda I just could not believe what I saw. I wanted to do as much as I could. I realised that Joseph Kony was not the biggest problem but Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir who was providing the funding,” Childers who took part in some battles against the rebels says.

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Hollywood film on LRA war hits cinemas