I should declare from the outset my admiration and great reverence for US President Barack Obama, particularly with his fairy tale story on how he overcame insurmountable odds to ascend to the White House – one of the most coveted jobs among cut-throat, issue-based American politicians.
But I was dumbstruck and left aghast by the fact that President Obama, instead of addressing real issues, was preoccupied with trying to impose American values of homosexuality on Africans.
Obama should be reminded that homosexuality is a non-issue and many Africans generally abhor it. One would have expected Obama to have addressed corruption, endemic poverty on the African continent and pressing issues, such as the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, the lack of jobs and lack of decent houses among Africans, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, among other problems too numerous to mention here.
Africa can only realise its full potential once it rids itself of the scourge of HIV/AIDS, once it rids itself of Boko Haram and other terrorist outfits, and when it creates jobs for its citizenry, provides proper health care, roads, schools, clinics, houses, healthcare, and produces enough for food its people.
But for now homosexuality is at the bottom of the list of Africa’s priorities. It is a non-issue that is meaningless and has no bearing whatsoever on Africans, who want real solutions to problems affecting Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. American cultural values should not be imposed on Africans.
Talk about eccentricity! Imposing these meaningless and foreign values on us, as Africans would be a great travesty, as the one-shoe-fits-all solution will simply not be suitable for us. Homosexuality is un-African and goes against our values.
Homosexuality is contrary to nature and those in the minority trying to impose their unnatural sexual desires on the majority of Africans will fail. Stop blaming genetics on this character-flaw and address real bread-and-butter issues affecting Africans.
Chrispin,
Windhoek