Ghana’s administration sends mixed signals on gays

Pretty much sums up what I have been saying about the current President John Atta-Mills for past few weeks. It seems he enjoys double-speaking

In short, the government is leaving it up to Parliament to either decriminalize homosexuality, to make the penalties stronger or leave things as they are.

My prediction is that status-quo ante will probably be maintained at least while John Atta-Mills is in power. As friends in Kumasi told me several weeks ago, the President has no appetite to quarrel with Western donors neither does he have the appetite to offend the deeply conservative Ghanaian people (In my experience, North Africans are the most conservative followed by West Africans then East Africans and finally Southern Africans).
However, things could change; “status-quo ante” could be disrupted and the Ghanaian Parliament fired-up for punitive action if Western-controlled gay sex militants in Ghana become as noisy and disruptive as those here in Kampala.

In short, the government is leaving it up to Parliament to either decriminalize homosexuality, to make the penalties stronger or leave things as they are.

My prediction is that status-quo ante will probably be maintained at least while John Atta-Mills is in power. As friends in Kumasi told me several weeks ago, the President has no appetite to quarrel with Western donors neither does he have the appetite to offend the deeply conservative Ghanaian people (In my experience, North Africans are the most conservative followed by West Africans then East Africans and finally Southern Africans).
However, things could change; “status-quo ante” could be disrupted and the Ghanaian Parliament fired-up for punitive action if Western-controlled gay sex militants in Ghana become as noisy and disruptive as those here in Kampala.