Desmond Tutu once said “Kenya is a sexually dysfunctional”
society, I was in form four, naïve. At the time I took the statement as a just
another foreigner trying to act as an expert. Well, even in the early 2000s,
sexuality in Kenya was a liberalized sector to the extent of Tutu calling it
Dysfunctional. Only one other time have I read about such a bold statement; made by Taban Lo Liyong when he said East Africa is a “desolate literary desert”. Such sweeping
generalization, bold statements like Tutu’s invokes a strong response, it looks
insulting. So many years later, today I have the mind and exposure to say a little
something on Tutu’s remark.
Just the other month a lot of hate, bile, rancor, passionate
banter, the identity of Africa was on the same line proclaimed from the
rooftops of conservative corners, the epistolic pages, apostolic proclamations
of the sinful nature of a foreign sin in all African landscape; men of god
across our land awed congregations with profound sermons on ‘pure sin’, “a
naked sin”…now don’t ask me if sin has different degrees of purity or anything
like that. This naked sin as a local pastor put it is dependent on several
African states passing anti-gay laws. Some of us who shouted for the gay
movement listened over and over to macklemore’s SAME LOVE and followed all our
support with paradoxical harsh tags #NoHomo lest we are taken to be gay or some
effeminate wuss!! We said ‘be and let
be’. While the blood breathing conservatives, former altar boys with Eucharistic
and Sadaka loyalty, church choir, bible study mums and Dads, the pan Africans,
Die hard Homo sapiens, overnight Bio-experts explained how the human body is a
perfect machine that never confuses its functions, how each cell, each organ
should work for the rest on and on and on. On the other hand the believers,
said God, the mighty perfect God made man without a “flaw”. They reduced all
the dreams and ambitions and people in the gay circles to just one word
“flawed”, defying God. They lived a regimented biblical life.
Enter Gay debate and the high minded libertarians with their
equally high sounding tendency for fanciful proclivities instantly rearranged
the extent of their beliefs on liberalism, they donned morality gowns and walked
like monks, they ran from their idyllic beliefs and became irrationally
emotive. They changed color and quoted the bible. Intellectualism died,
libertarianism died, they died. If it is all about morality, bible, Jesus and
pastor’s profound sermons then why should we be blind to other equally “immoral
incidents of the devil ruining the African purity”, take any incident from our national
archive of sordid subjects; for instance the narcissistic exhibitionism on TV,
Maina Kageni on morning drive where we wash the dirty linens of our “immorality”…
“My wife is so dirty she wears my under pants” said one
regular caller…Mwalimu King’angi has a database of them…
“I can have sex with 10 other men without my husband
noticing”
Why shouldn’t we, in our practiced responses and reactions to
reoccurring sins, then find ways of incorporating “this other sins” into the
national prayer breakfast as a special prayer item? Basically, let’s not be a
nation of multiple moralities and selective moralities.
The other group of the clenched fist, nostalgically naïve,
little “Shaka’s”, “Kintu”, “the true African”, “Django” the young African who
came running chest thumbing, a little late for the party, when all was almost
done and the die had been cast, woke from little villages inside their heads,
looked the other way from the reality of their own lives and said
“Oh mother Africa, what cant they try to do to you? Why can’t
they live you alone…? Oh mother Africa…Now they want to confuse you and let men
have sex with other men….oh God...America…. Amerikah… A!!-Merry!!-Car!!….they
heap all unaccepted cultures from A-Merry-Car and ship it to Africah!! …now
they want to change our mother land to A-freaker!! Unacceped!! No…! no way….Go
Museveni…the big finger in the American face…..Mugabe the only African with
balls to face America, tell them this is Un-African!! This is purely an
American….western….Euro way of doing things….it is anywhere else but African!!
These newly conscious defendants of Africa, the legion, true
sons, the shirtless, well muscled, village goons, skinny, sure footed,
spectacle donning, suited and speeding in university halls, idle sitting in
government offices, church goers and bible worshiping people stood up, held
hands, watched the setting sun and sang a new creed…..they clenched fists,
raised it high, faced the sun and cried to mama Africa, the big woman in the
world.
They just said this Gay thing is un-African. Not from Africa.
Not for African pleasures. Not by Africans.
Shy minds fail to contend and transcend such nakedness, their
imaginations reach a point where it just stops….naked men, the ass and a hard
phallus and even when it breaks itself from the imaginative stop sign… they
turn their face the other way. This free thinking and wondering imagination
can’t be honest it should be sanctioned and subjected to suspicion. Like amateur
liars many distanced themselves from all this same sex issue…Men having sex
with men!! If it sounds bad, then it must be bad, if pastor says it is
unforgivable then God speaketh; don’t think. Oppose. Don’t reason. Just Oppose.
Let your imagination not transcend the disgusting perversion. Naked men.
Eeeeuww!! End of reason. Beginning of argument. Passionate anger. End of the
debate. It is Un-African.
you must read this UN-AFRICAN WHATEVER YOU MEAN!!
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