Kayumba David

In Unequal Tears, Ugandan-born theologian and activist Kayumba David delivers a searing indictment of the hypocrisy that defines our age. Drawing on history, theology, and lived experience, he exposes how human rights have been weaponized by empires, how churches have betrayed their prophetic calling, and how media narratives teach us to value some corpses more than others. From the misuse of "chosenness" in Christian Zionism, to the profiteering of the global arms trade, to the racialized coverage of victims in the press, this book lays bare the collapse of universal human dignity.
Yet it does not end in despair. With fierce honesty and prophetic imagination, David calls for a new moral framework-one where every child, in Kyiv or Gaza, in Khartoum or Kabul, is grieved as sacred.