On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law, which includes life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality and in some cases, mandates the death penalty.
Since 2015, right-wing US evangelical Christian organizations that "share an anti-LGBTIQ, anti-abortion agenda" have spent over $20 million in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an investigation by the Byline Times.
In 2020, openDemocracy found that some groups, such as the US Christian organization Family Watch International — defined as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — had even been "coaching" African politicians on sex education. Since 2008, US Christian right groups, many of them linked to the Trump administration, have spent more than $280 million in dark money outside the US.
Guest:
Caleb Okereke, founder and managing editor at Minority Africa
Web Resources:
Foreign Policy: How U.S. Evangelicals Helped Homophobia Flourish in Africa
Open Democracy: Exclusive: US Christian Right pours more than $50m into Africa
PBS: Where African countries stand in their struggle toward more inclusive LGBTQ+ laws
