Target Africa: Ideological Neocolonialism in the Twenty-First Century by Obianuju Ekeocha

Author:Obianuju Ekeocha [Ekeocha, Obianuju]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
ISBN: 9781642295306
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00

Serving the Truth with Love

The one thing that Western pro-homosexuality advocates do not ever consider is that the African men and women who struggle with same-sex attraction are first and foremost the beloved children of Africa. They have mothers, fathers, and siblings who love them. African societies’ refusal to redefine the foundation of their civilization does not mean they hate their children who have same-sex attraction. Rather, it means that Africans want a more profound way of showing their love for their children without indulging their every wish and desire. Families want truth balanced by love, and societies want justice evened out by mercy.

African nations have been labeled as inherently homophobic by Western media. These accusations have been made on the heels of incidents of mob violence against homosexuals. Time and time again these cases have been spun or framed by Western commentators to blame African leaders, both political and religious, for these acts of violence. In so doing, they have pinned Africans into a corner: if we don’t accept the homosexual lifestyle, we are homophobic. Thus, many ordinary Africans have been frightened into silence, because anything less than total acceptance of homosexual behavior is considered hatred. We are told that our understanding of human sexuality and marriage is responsible for the cases of mob violence against homosexuals. Thus, we try to avoid airing our opinion about marriage, because no matter how carefully we word this opinion, it has been declared unfit for public consumption.

But am I a hater for believing that a child should not be subjected to fatherlessness by the choice of two women? Am I a bigot for thinking that it is wrong for homosexuals to exploit poor women through surrogacy? Am I a homo-phobe for seeing the biological fact that a procreative marital act can be accomplished only by a man and a woman? No, I am none of these things. Neither I nor anyone in my sphere of family or friends would ever condone or perpetrate an attack on a homosexual.

Attacks against gays are usually carried out by a mob, and every one of these vicious attacks should be denounced. What is often not mentioned in the news, however, is that in many parts of Africa, vigilantism, or mob justice, is a real problem and a cause for worry for everyone, not only homosexuals. This failure of justice in African societies is being used by Western commentators to declare that the African people themselves are the greatest homophobes on the planet, without ever mentioning that mobs are often whipped into violent frenzy for any number of reasons.

In 2011, the Kenyan police for the first time included “lynching” in its crime statistics. The officials recorded 543 victims. In Uganda, 582 people died as a result of lynching in 2014. According to the United Nations, mobs brutally killed 16 people within a month in Malawi. In South Africa, several times a year a person is “necklaced”; that is, he is tied up, and a tire soaked in gasoline is hung around his neck and set on fire.

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