Tag: Tanzania

Does that make them homooophobic? Here’s a new one: the President of Tanzania has claimed that cows – yes, cows – are against LGBT+ people. John Magufuli made the ridiculous claim last week during one of his many homophobic rants. “Those who teach such things do not like us, brothers,” Magufuli said of LGBT+ people and activists. “They brought us drugs and homosexual practices that even cows disapprove of.” Oh. There’s us thinking it was just a case of resting bitch face all...

"The law in Tanzania has boundaries when it comes to sexuality" says Hamisi Kigwangalla. Hamisi Kigwangalla, the deputy health minister for Tanzania, wants to publish the names of men and women suspected of being homosexuals. In a series of angry tweets written in Swahili and English, he argued that homosexuality did not scientifically exist, and was merely a side effect of city life. In the rural village he came from, Kigwangalla insisted, there were no homosexuals. https://twitter.com/HKigwangalla/status/833381122201497600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw ”Have you ever come across a...