If you say beg gay is not Ain, you don’t know your history | Bisi Alimi | The Guardian

homosexuality in africa pre colonisation

We see and acknowledge the support and allyship om some of our whe brethren towards gay people on the Ain ntent. We are however sensive to the ways which this support n exclu certa thgs om the nversatn. Many tim when whe people and former lonial untri refer to homosexualy on the ntent,

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IF YOU SAY BEG GAY IS NOT AIN, YOU DON’T KNOW YOUR HISTORY

Homosexualy existed Ai before Colonialism bee Same Sex relatnships were known to exist Ai before ia that Homosexualy did not exist Ai before Colonialism appears to be based on the unrstandg that Pre-Colonial Ai did not tolerate Homosexualy, makg Homosexualy Ai a Colonial Import.

The other agument ma support of the ia that Homosexualy did not exist Ai before Colonialism is that sce Homosexualy do not lead to procreatn, s unnatural, viant and whout precent nature. Homosexualy In Ai Before ColonialismThe followg are exampl of Homosexualy Ai before Colonialism:For example:It is believed that Kabaka (Kg) Mwanga II, who led Buganda the latter half of the 19th century, was gay. Furthermore, Cave patgs of the San people near Guve Zimbabwe pictg naked men havg same sex terurse have revealed that same sex sexual relatns existed Bhmen tim;The ra queen Modjadji of Balob peopl was also believed to be homosexual her relatns as she has ‘many wiv’ the early Zan warrrs found Congo and Sudan, homosexual relatns were also believed to be monplace.

The warrrs were said to marry younger men who performed the duti of a wife until they beme Gabon and Cameroun male sexual relatns were believed to transm wealth between light of the above, nnot be said that Homosexualy did not exist Ai before Colonialism makg a foreign Colonial simply not accurate to suggt that Homosexualy did not exist Ai before Colonialism and that somehow Homosexualy amounts to a rptn of thentic Pre-Colonial Ain valu. Homosexualy In NatureThe Procreatn argument also stands to fall as evince suggts that a whole host of animals om Baboons, Sea Lns, Whal and Rams habually engage Homosexual relatns. It nnot therefore be suggted that Homosexualy amounts to some form of ‘unnatural’ viance that is not prent nature bee do not rult procreatn.

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