It is part of a culture war in Africa that has ties to the West
It is not just Ugandan homophobes who cloak themselves in anti-colonial garb. In Ghana, the preface to a similar bill warns of “the infiltration of foreign cultures”. Some Kenyan politicians, who hope to pass a law of their own, have describedWestern governments have indeed become more assertive about sexual rights as their voters have become more liberal.
A meeting in Moscow in 1995 between an American historian and two Russian sociologists who blamed homosexuality for population decline laid the ground for the World Congress of Families, an American anti-gay network that opposes same-sex marriage, promotes “the natural family” and has organised conferences in Africa. For many years its representative in Russia was Alexey Komov, a right-wing activist close to figures allied to the Orthodox church.
Tradition can be widely interpreted. Sylvia Tamale, a Ugandan academic, has argued that African societies once had a nuanced understanding of sexuality, before colonial missionaries imposed rigid moral codes. Some countries are recovering a lost culture of tolerance. In 2019 a court in Botswana struck down the country’s sodomy laws, saying they were “imported” by the British.
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