LGBT RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AFRICA AND THE MYTH OF THE WHITEMAN'S SUPERIORITY

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LGBT RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AFRICA AND THE MYTH OF THE WHITEMAN'S SUPERIORITY

Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 1

Abstract

The West's commitment to fervidly push the LGBT rights philosophy in the world in general and Africa in particular has caused it to embark on a num-ber of questionable advocacy tactics. In Africa, precisely, the West has prof-fered coercive ploys in the form of threats and bullying approaches to reform the African minds in favor of the LGBT right concept. However, this muscled activism by the West could, in many respects, be viewed more as an imperial-ist and neo-colonialist strategy than a humanistic project. In effect, the West seems more determined to let its voice and idea(l)s prevail at all cost in the world (particularly in Africa) than it is bent on championing the course for human rights. This paper argues that this particular attitude by the West brings to the fore the myths of race supremacy and Western cultural hegemo-ny. The West's strategic use of threat (of discontinuing its financial aid des-tined to poor African countries) as a weapon to bully and force African states to decriminalize homosexuality is clearly illustrative of its enthusiasm at stultifying African's voice and philosophy on the LGBT rights issue. The fact that the West visibly tolerates gross violation of fundamental human rights (such as the death penalty in force in the USA) in its socio-cultural system is the proof of the fact that its mission is less to promote the respect of human rights. If not, its advocacy approach would have included sanitizing its own social system (its human right framework) and excluding hypocrisy and the use of bullying tactics and subtle force against poor African nations – notably Malawi – which cannot fight back.

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Floribert Patrick Endong

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