Ifeanyi Kelly Orazulike, executive director of the International Center for Advocacy on Rights to Health
It gets a little difficult to focus on the message when the messenger (Orazulike, above) is so good-looking, but focus on the message we must.
Nigerian rights activists are fighting the same battles seen everywhere else in Africa; for acceptance, dignity …
Anyone who has been following the skirmishes around the dark continent (still) can now write the script blindfolded. So, there is no point in trawling through the arguments again. This money quote from Thaddeus Ugoh should, in my view, suffice:
“The key factor is religious sentiment, that’s one. Second is ignorance – which goes to education, actually. Thirdly, I could say on the basis of the leaders, political pressure [on] traditions,”
Amen, Amen, Amen.
Now, if only we could eradicate just one of these nemeses; religion, and especially every imported religion, from every African country …
Is that a giant suction sound I hear taking the air out of the sails of the African anti-gay campaigners?
Precisely.
