How the U.S. Christian Right is Colonizing Africa Values
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Thu Jul 26, 2012 at 02:38:45 PM EST
It is no surprise to the Talk2Action community that the U.S. Christian Right did not fold up its tents and head home when the Uganda legislature failed to pass the 2009 "Kill the Gays" bill giving the death penalty for something called aggravated homosexuality. Instead, U.S. groups are expanding their presence in sub-Saharan Africa, as a new report, "Colonizing African Values," by Political Research Associates' Kapya Kaoma documents.
In Uganda, a Human Life International staffer tried to get police to arrest someone who conducted an abortion. In Zimbabwe and Kenya, the  African staff of the new offices founded by American Center for Law and Justice joined ACLJ's Jordan Sekulow in trying to enshrine U.S. culture war language in those countries' new constitutions. And Family Watch International's Sharon Slater keeps peddling her claims that the United Nations and western human rights advocates want to destroy the African family with population control measures. Meanwhile, the U.S. Right continues to nurture relationships with African dictators like Zimbabwe's Mugabe in a throw-back to Pat Robertson's sorry history supporting apartheid regimes and the Liberian dictator Charles Taylor.

In perhaps his most fascinating finding, Kapya suggests that the U.S. Christian Right has an outsized influence with African Christians, even though many Africans are quite liberal about government action against poverty, because they share an ultra religious outlook. In particular, the theology of U.S. charismatics and Pentecostals who see God's - and the devil's -- spirit acting in the world through faith healing, speaking in tongues, and prophecy resonates with traditional African beliefs that remain in Christian worship. But the report also shows traditional interpretations of homosexuality are far from the crusading American Pentecostals' belief that LGBT people are possessed by demons that must be cast out. Kapya tells the story of a lesbian who was finally accepted into her family after her grandmother suggested she was possessed by an uncle who never got married. Now the family lets her drink like a man and date women.

Kapya worked with on the ground researchers in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe and gathered data from another three countries to build a fresh picture of how the U.S. culture wars are being waged in Africa. He weaves in reporting by Talk2Action's Bruce Wilson, Rachel Tabachnik, and Fred Clarkson, and Religion Dispatches Sarah Posner. Released Tuesday, July 24, the report has found an audience on three continents, thanks in part to coverage by South Africa's correspondents for the Guardian and Associated Press.

From the response of the groups named in the report, it seems like he's struck a nerve. Kapya's rallying call is for Americans to keep challenging the U.S. Christian Right and stop them from exporting the culture wars, while supporting beleaguered human rights activists in Africa. At the same time, he says we need to do a better job revealing the reactionary politics of the U.S. Christian Right to Africans and support a progressive Christian educational and media infrastructure.




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