ReasonableMatic
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This is all FACTS.Understood. The reason why I mentioned it is because you have negroes this forum who believe that homosexuality did not exist in Africa until the white man brought it in. Which historically doesn't make any sense because the first European explorers were also religious and wrote extensively about what they saw, which eventually its way to the missionaries.
Let's look at Jamaica for example. Strong dislike or borderline hatred for homosexuality is not indicative of Ghanaian or West Afrikan culture but rather an attitude that was instilled by British missionaries on the island.
Nikkas letting their bigotry blind them to actual historical data and events in Africa.
The reality is that the spectrum of sexuality and gender expression was in Africa before Europeans got there. (Just like it was in Indigenous communities in the Americas before Europeans got there)
Christian missionaries wrote about what they saw extensively.
Like the Portuguese and British when they went to Kongo.
“..They are beastly in their living, for they have men in women's apparel, whom they keep among their wives..”
- 1580
“..There is among the Angolan pagan much sodomy.
sharing one with the other their dirtiness and filth, dressing as women..”
- 1681
European colonizers brought that intense hostility there along with Christianity which they enforced with colonial laws. Just like Jamaica’s “buggery law” and “Obeah law” were imposed to enforce Christianity and its anti-African worldview to disconnect enslaved Africans from their indigenous cultures and traditions to fit them into their new colonial Christian framework.
As those who had their indigenous African cultures and traditions were hostile to enslavement.
Africa is literally a continent, to believe that its gender and sexual expressions would be binary without European intervention is being naive and blinded by bigotry.
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