It is dangerous for any country to legalize a witch-hunt of an already oppressed minority; it will lead to an unprecedented hysterical homophobia that will set the clock back in the fearful past. It is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. It will lead to people fleeing for safety, to informers, to pitting one African citizen against another.
The notion that it is “un-African” to be gay puts gay Africans in an impossible position. First you have to argue that you are as African as the next African, then you're flogged, sentenced to life imprisonment, ostracized and while all that's happening to you, you're stripped of your racial identity too. You're told you are not African for choosing to love who you love.
~ Jackie Kay, poet and writer, February 2014
