Vast flows of money from Western anti-rights groups have been spent to eviscerate the rights of LGBTIQ people in Africa, setting the stage for much of the repressive and dehumanising anti-gay legislation on the continent today.
But while progressive allies in the West, and even Joe Biden’s US administration, may be acknowledging the havoc wreaked by these groups in Africa, they have remained both unwilling and unable to act decisively to stop them.
The World Congress of Families, Family Watch International, and the Fellowship Foundation are some of the US groups linked to the organising that set the stage for the 2014 and 2023 anti-LGBTIQ laws in Uganda; a similar bill underway in Ghana; and another feared to be on the verge of introduction in Kenya.
