Ghana and Uganda Echo Each Other’s Clamp Down On Gay People

Ghana’s anti-gay bill passed this year has been widely condemned as ‘brutal, harsh and unjust.’

Ghana, despite its more solid reputation for democracy and respect for human rights than authoritarian Uganda, is joining it in more stringently criminalising homosexuality – and vacillating about the legislation to do that.

Gay sex was already illegal in strongly religious, conservative Ghana before 2021 when legislators tabled the ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values…