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The m’zungu Christian Church & Africa

Homophobia & Hypocrisy

Its impossible to overestimate the power of the Christian church across much of Sub-Saharan

Africa. African leaders certainly don't estimate it.

"If I kissed my wife in public, I'd lose the next election."
Yoweri Museveni 67
President of Uganda
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Of course, it’s not strictly true. There have always been other ways to ensure that particular

election result. But the point was well made and accurately sums up the level of African

Christian 'propriety'.
The quote comes from a man who has ruled his country for several decades. And whose

government is considered to be of a mind to do whatever it wants. Is able to impose what it

wants, when it wants.
But this man is not just mindful of public reaction to any overt, formal acceptance of

concepts such as ‘gay rights’ and ‘same sex’ marriages, that he sees it as a genuine threat.

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Sub-Saharan Africa did not just embrace the Christian religion. Africans absorbed it to the

point where in country after country more than 90 percent of the population are active
Christians.

There are ways in which this has added confusion. Many Africans still feel connected to

aspects of traditional African religions. In countries like Ghana, there are said to be more than
10,000 different ‘churches’. Each ‘church’ formed from a slightly different blend of Christian

worship and traditional African belief’
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The UK and other m’zungu countries have taken generations to come to terms with ‘gay

rights’, ‘same sex’ marriages and other ‘heresies’. Even today, significant parts of the UK

population cannot accept such concepts. The m’zungu Christian church struggles with them.
And even in the UK, these struggles are conducted with strong emotion.

Your own people, after a transition in public ‘morals’ that has taken several generations,

still find it difficult to accept the concepts of ‘gay rights’ and ‘same sex’ marriages’.