In Niger it’s straight up medieval. Hard line conservatives moved in once Sharia hit northern Nigeria, and from the early 2000s to 2010 it changed dramatically. Source: lived there for years. Even affluent gay artists in Niamey with French/EU/US cover denied their sexuality to all but their closest friends. Anything less was a liability. Most did everything they could to leave the region and get to Europe. Once the junta kicked the French out, the easiest safe path went with them.
Even Ghana is bad lately. They buried the country’s only skate park in sand because it was “introducing gay stuff to the youth.” Laughably stupid, and that was the punt from years of trying to implement a fully draconian anti-LGBT law. There it’s easier to blend into Western-friendly parts of Accra, but it was going to end up fucking being hunting parties if that law passed. Source: same as above.
Plenty of other countries literally hunt people down on a rumor. Once saw a police freak out in a SADC county and literal (wo)manhunt based on a couple posting a FB pic of two women at a restaurant.
South Africa might be the only LGBT tolerant county really on the whole continent.
Most of Africa.
In Niger it’s straight up medieval. Hard line conservatives moved in once Sharia hit northern Nigeria, and from the early 2000s to 2010 it changed dramatically. Source: lived there for years. Even affluent gay artists in Niamey with French/EU/US cover denied their sexuality to all but their closest friends. Anything less was a liability. Most did everything they could to leave the region and get to Europe. Once the junta kicked the French out, the easiest safe path went with them.
Even Ghana is bad lately. They buried the country’s only skate park in sand because it was “introducing gay stuff to the youth.” Laughably stupid, and that was the punt from years of trying to implement a fully draconian anti-LGBT law. There it’s easier to blend into Western-friendly parts of Accra, but it was going to end up fucking being hunting parties if that law passed. Source: same as above.
Plenty of other countries literally hunt people down on a rumor. Once saw a police freak out in a SADC county and literal (wo)manhunt based on a couple posting a FB pic of two women at a restaurant.
South Africa might be the only LGBT tolerant county really on the whole continent.
Wow. Thanks for the TIL.