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American-led ‘pro-family’ summit in Ghana condemned for ‘shocking’ white supremacist, Islamophobic links

The World Congress of Families, hosting an Accra ‘family and development’ event, has European allies who have called African migrants “slaves” and “poison”

By openDemocracy investigations

American-led ‘pro-family’ summit in Ghana condemned for ‘shocking’ white supremacist, Islamophobic links — World Congress of Families president Brian Brown at its 2017 summit in Hungary, where prime minister Viktor Orbán gave an anti-immigrant opening speech | Elekes Andor/Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0

Published: October 31, 2019, 12:21 pm

The US-led network behind an “African family and sustainable development” summit opening today in Accra has numerous links to Islamophobic, far-Right and white supremacist movements, openDemocracy can reveal.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is hosting a two-day “Africa regional gathering” in the Ghanaian capital from Thursday, seeking to meet with parliamentarians and religious leaders from the country.

While the WCF is best known for publicly opposing LGBT rights and abortion, and its president has emphasised that it “condemns racism”, openDemocracy’s research has uncovered numerous connections between key WCF figures and other controversial movements internationally, including:

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