The African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty, a forum that many argue has influenced anti-LGBTQ+ laws on the continent, will be held in Burkina Faso and then Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) next year, it was announced this year.
The first three conferences were held annually in Uganda, in east Africa, beginning in 2023. Uganda imposed the death penalty for some same-sex sexual acts that year.
According to US-based international reproductive rights organisation Ipas, the annual gatherings are supported by Family Watch International (FWI), an Arizona-based Christian campaign group that opposes abortion and comprehensive sex education (CSE). Also in attendance has been Dutch-founded lobby group Christian Council International, which promotes similar views.
This is what I came here for. I was suspecting Russian of Chinese influence, but it’s the good ol’ West’s doing again.
Why were you suspecting Russian or Chinese influence? In Africa they barely seem to care about political beliefs of local governments and stick to economic exploitation that is still not as bad as the west but that doesn’t make it okay.
well Chinese because they have been making mineral deals aplenty, loans of which are putting pressure on African governments. Russians because of their fighting in Mali and such, I figured perhaps this was a side effect.
true those are real bad things its just I’ve yet to see evidence of either doing any of the ideological work of the west they seem to mostly stay in their lane of economic exploitation.
This is what I came here for. I was suspecting Russian of Chinese influence, but it’s the good ol’ West’s doing again.
Why were you suspecting Russian or Chinese influence? In Africa they barely seem to care about political beliefs of local governments and stick to economic exploitation that is still not as bad as the west but that doesn’t make it okay.
well Chinese because they have been making mineral deals aplenty, loans of which are putting pressure on African governments. Russians because of their fighting in Mali and such, I figured perhaps this was a side effect.
true those are real bad things its just I’ve yet to see evidence of either doing any of the ideological work of the west they seem to mostly stay in their lane of economic exploitation.
absolutely true, I have no evidence that they do or would. That was just the first direction my mind went to, which is telling… 🙃
It’s always been US Influence and Christian missionaries.
“They eat the poopoo” said through the mouth of an African via the mind of a missionary