Western donors; know your boundaries.

It’s a common saying that he who pays the piper dictates the tune. The government of many African countries have lost their bearing owing to the beggar approach they adopt in relating with donors from the western hemisphere. We have been inundated with how the tool of ‘conditionality’ has been used to scatter the very social structure that characterizes the African life and distort the principles of simplicity, decency and community that Africans enjoy.

One of such appalling and misplaced donor gesture is now been demonstrated in Malawi. Western donors are now putting the government of this southern African nation under pressure for its prohibition of homosexual behaviours in the country.

This is coming at the wake of the conviction of two male Malawians, who got ‘married’ recently, by a court of the land. The court declared the behaviour of Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, as grossly indecent and their acts as unnatural.

Malawi, a deeply religious country in the coming days will have to either swim against the current of western encroachment or sink in the sea of the withdrawal of donor dollars or Euros.

Human right is good but human decency should sound more presentable.

In systems where homosexuality is legalized, how has this unnatural practice contributed to the development of these systems? Should we compound the problems of nations grappling with poverty with a breakdown in their social values?

Homosexuality, to me, is a ‘subtle’ attack on the family, the very fabric of all progressive societies.

Sexual perversion is not African. Africans are decent. From my last check, South Africa is the only Sub-Saharan African country where the law of the land backs homosexual acts. Indeed, there could be some traces of this perversion in some cultures and countries of Africa, the truth is, we must not encourage anything that supports a man ‘marrying’ a man and a woman ‘marrying’ a woman even if it means losing all the donor supports in this world.

As Africans, we should show love to people with this perversion and counsel them to see life as it should be, but we should condemn this act in all its manifestations and furthermore tell western donors to know their boundaries.