Following failed attempts in 2006 and 2008, Nigerian lawmakers have resurrected a widely condemned anti-homosexuality bill, due to be heard in the Nigerian Parliament on 31 October. They are desperate to find a scapegoat to rally public support behind them, and the LGBT community provides an easy target. When will they stop discussing who is sleeping with whom and start making laws that would actually move this underdeveloped but oil-rich nation forward?
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Yemisi Ilesanmi is Coordinator for Nigerian LGBT in Diaspora Against Same Sex Laws. She is a former Chair of the ITUC Youth Committee and has worked in the trade union movement in both Nigeria and the UK.
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Nigerian anti-homosexuality bill: an imperial relic
30th October 2011 — Filed under: International
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