Kenya Cracks Down On LGBTQ Infiltration In Schools With Aims To Ban Gay Netflix Shows In The Country

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East Africa’s Kenya has initiated a campaign to address the perceived infiltration of LGBTQ advocacy in schools. The Ministry of Education’s new strategy will see the government establish chaplaincies in schools, minister Ezekiel Machogu told senators on Thursday.

Gay sex remains illegal but anti-gay attitudes have been hardening after last month’s ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the gay community’s right to register an association.

A committee headed by an archbishop from the Anglican Church in Kenya has already been formed to deal with LGBTQ issues in schools, the minister said and suggested its role could include reviewing school literature.

“These are issues that we cannot be able to allow to infiltrate into our schools.” Mr. Machogu said in a report by the BBC.

In February this year, the Kenyan government cracked down on foreign books with gay content that it feels target, teenagers.

The government was reacting to a public outcry from parents with school-age children and religious officials who had demanded the government do a thorough audit of books in the market and ban the ones with gay content.

It appears Kenya is doing its possible best to get rid of LGBTQ+ practices in the country.

Apart from Kenya cracking down on teen books with same-sex content, the government last September revealed it was in talks with Netflix to ban the streaming of LGBTQ movies.

It has been very well discussed amongst many that Netflix has an agency to promote homosexuality and role reversals on its platform.

More Crackdowns On Gays In Africa

BURUNDI: Last week, a court in Burundi charged 24 people with “homosexual practices,” a judicial source and a human rights activist in the East African country, which is waging a crackdown on homosexuals, told AFP.

After interrogations which lasted about ten days, 17 men and seven women ” were charged with homosexual practices and incitement to homosexual practices by the public prosecutor before being imprisoned in the central prison of Gitega”, the capital, announced Wednesday evening to AFP Mr. Armel Niyongere, the president of ACAT-Burundi, which defends human rights. They will remain in prison until their trial, he added.

GHANA: Despite the free and fair living of many homosexuals in Ghana, last two years the Foreign Minister of Ghana rejected Joe Biden’s push for legalizing homosexuality on the country. She added that “in spite of what somebody will say and in this case President Biden, the laws of Ghana criminalizes unnatural… carnal knowledge and therefore the laws of Ghana definitely are prime or primary and that is what we all adhere to.”

She stated further that, “of course, culturally also, we have our cultural laws that we all adhere to and so as much as he would say that, we also as a sovereign country must speak to the laws of the land.”.

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