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Chantal Zabus does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. On 13 January the Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, signed a bill against gay relationships, outlawing gay marriage, public displays of same-sex relationships and membership in gay groups. Museveni is not alone in pondering how to kill sexual dissenters. At least 76 United Nations member countries have laws that criminalise same-sex relations; some 37 African countries, along with Middle Eastern countries, constitute a majority of those.

Zambia sentenced two men to 15 years in prison last week for having consensual sex in the privacy of their hotel room. In late November, Ugandan police rounded up people in a gay-friendly bar in the capital, Kampala, dozens of whom now face charges. In Nigeria last week, 47 men pleaded innocent to charges of public displays of affection with the same-sex. They had been detained during a police raid on a Lagos hotel in

It was viewed as a massive success and a historic moment across the continent. Despite this the more than half of the countries in Africa outlaw homosexuality, with four enforcing the death penalty. Of course not. But this phenomenon is specific to those under British rule.