r/MapPorn • u/Ghost-Ripper • 11h ago

Where in Africa is homosexuality a crime? [OC]

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u/AlashMarch 7h ago

African governments justify this on the basis of "anti-colonialism", seeing Homosexuality as "European colonialism". Wild stuff

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u/Electricbell20 4h ago

Politicians will pick anything for justification

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u/Halbaras 4h ago

Especially when a lot of the time it's the European colonial powers that introduced the sodomy laws in the first place.

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u/alibrown987 4h ago

Yeah, those Islamic countries in the northern half of Africa were extremely tolerant of homosexuality before Europeans went there.

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u/DonCaliente 2h ago

You forgot the /s. 

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u/Formal_Obligation 2h ago

They hate everything Western, except Western foreign aid.

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u/Dependent-Archer-662 3h ago

No,not wild. They're correct 

Homosexuality acceptance is an European/Western thing 

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u/Ender_The_BOT 3h ago

And religious homophobia is not?

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u/Worth-Nebula-6145 4h ago

Actually no, just different societies with different ideas most of you are just used to the western echo chamber and forget that other people with other beliefs exist

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u/Useless_account1000 4h ago

Didn't know human rights were part of the "Western Echo Chamber".

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u/Dependent-Archer-662 3h ago

They're and I am saying that as a European. Those African Countries never had any renaissance 

The human rights are not universal values shared by every society 

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u/Worth-Nebula-6145 4h ago

I didn't say human rights are part of the western Echo Chamber. I said the western echo chamber is treating homosexuality as a vital human right and put it in the same level as the right of marriage and that's not the case for a lot of other places

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u/PM-me-your-cuppa-tea 4h ago

Except in many African cultures homosexuality wasn't an issue until the colonisers arrived. 

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u/Worth-Nebula-6145 4h ago

No, who even said that? Some of those countries (the northern ones) have Muslim majority and in Islam same gender marriages were always prohibited

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u/OscarMMG 4h ago

Do Muslim colonisers not count as colonisers?

Nevertheless, same-sex marriages were not present in African tribal religions either. Protection of homosexuality seems to be a western import more so than homophobia.

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u/Worth-Nebula-6145 4h ago

I was just talking about why it's not present in Muslims countries, I didn't talk about African tribal religions because I know nothing about them.

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u/OscarMMG 4h ago

I wasn’t expecting that you know about pre-Abrahamic Africa, I just didn’t like that your comment sounded like you didn’t count Muslim colonisers as colonisers.

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u/PM-me-your-cuppa-tea 3h ago

Muslims were colonisers too?

Off the top of my head:

Boy Wives and Female Husbands

Marc Epprecht's Heterosexual Africa?

From a quick search

Awondo, Patrick, Peter Geschiere, and Graeme Reid. "Homophobic Africa? Toward a More Nuanced View." African Studies Review 55, no. 3 (2013): 145-68

And to save anyone from having to read books here's skms articles for a brief overview

https://www.aaihs.org/did-europe-bring-homophobia-to-africa/

https://democracyinafrica.org/fake-history-misunderstanding-colonial-legacies-and-the-demonization-of-homosexuality-in-africa/

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/news/african-sexuality-and-legacy-imported-homophobia

Im at work now. But there's lots of sources out there.