Family Watch International have been organising for about two decades to oppose comprehensive sexuality education all over Africa. They even hold annual training sessions for African ambassadors. Some of the MPs who were behind some of these laws that are being pushed in Africa, they're incredibly influenced by the rhetoric of the American culture wars. I was talking to a Zambian priest who has researched this and he told me while looking in America the conservative right rage against the so-called woke left, in Africa they rage against the West. All that's changed is the bogeyman.
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