Homophobia is rising in parts of Africa, with lawmakers pushing for tougher anti-LGBTQ legislation.
In the latest sign of rising homophobia in different African countries, a Kenyan opposition MP is leading a campaign for parliament to further criminalise the country's small LGBTQ community.
On the other side of the continent, MPs in Ghana earlier this month unanimously voted in favour of amendments to the country's anti-gay legislation, pushing it closer to being enacted into law. Though less harsh than Uganda's new law, theproposes a three-year prison sentence for anyone who identifies as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promotes homosexuality.
"The bill will propose a total ban on what the West calls sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures, and prohibit all activities that promote homosexuality, in terms of... gay parades, drag shows, wearing the colours, the flags, the emblems of the LGBTQ group," Mr Kaluma says. Dr Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian priest in the Anglican Church and an academic at Boston University in the US, says African countries are being targeted by FWI and similar US-based organisations, and that the impact of its lobbying has been "horrible and inhumane" in parts of Africa, fuelling what he calls "militant homophobia".
She cites a United Nations Population Fund manual for out-of-school youths in east and southern Africa, saying it promotes homosexuality and is too explicit.Mrs Slater also quotes from the manual, including lines which say that facilitators of lessons should have "a neutral, accepting attitude towards homosexuality".
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