Felix Kilonzo

Following the rejection of the infamous bill by President Yoweri Museveni came at a time when Africans are fighting to unite under the same banner of lasting peace and unity. I don’t know where to start from but the words of the Kenyan president of the Supreme Court and the chief justice, Dr. Willy Mutunga of the need for East African legislative bodies to create laws which do not contradict with the provision of the bill of rights and liberties.  Dr. Mutunga while in Uganda shortly after he was appointed as Chief Justice in Kenya, he stressed that East Africa should give a clear blueprint in the implementation of the human rights. He argued that the controversy that does exist in the individual constitutions should not be used at the expense of human rights adding that gay rights are human rights too. While working for Ugandan Media, the subject of whether Gay Rights are human rights or not was deemed as ‘not to talk about issue’.   I remember protesting to Gil...

When Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni opposes an anti-gay bill passed by lawmakers that calls for life imprisonment for gays, even as he characterizes homosexuals as "abnormal" people who should be rehabilitated, then I smell the Africa that is changed from the one which pretends to abide with the cultures which may be in one way or another outdated. When I read the letter by the president its clear that the Ugandan President has made it known that the U turn he made on the same in 2011 still stands and that he represents all Ugandans whether Gay or Straight. Museveni is a president who doesn’t give in to pressure from the so called evangelicals as well from lawmakers from his own party NRM. Although the Sexual minorities fault the president on the characterization of the homosexuals, I feel it’s the time they live with that because its better than rotting in prison. Like Museveni I wonder, what do you do with an abnormal person? “Do we kill him/her? Do we impris...