I like the article, but there’s one nagging question.
How does it sound when (mostly White) activists in the West say “You Africans don’t believe what you think you do. What you really believe is more in line with what we think you should. If you disagree with us it’s because you’ve been fooled by Westerners”? That sounds more than a tad patronizing and colonial to me. Don’t get me wrong. I think Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law rises to the level of State Terrorism and a crime against humanity. Maybe there’s a better way of saying it. But you don’t win too many friends telling people in another country that you understand their values and culture better than they do.
