After World War II, when African countries began to win their independence, many European and Western societies decriminalized gay sex. But the new African nations stepped up their campaigns against it, reinforcing one of the worst colonial legacies. And that's the sad historical irony here. To many Africans, homosexuality and gay rights come from the West. But the West's truly awful gift to the continent was homophobia, which the Africans then adopted as their own.
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