https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/africa/case-legalize-homosexuality-kenya/index.html
About the issues of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth that we are discussing in class, I want to share this news that is at least hopeful.
Last week the High Court in Nairobi started hearing a case that may decriminalize homosexuality. This is a big step considering that as we learned in class, Kenya like other African countries inherited from the colonialism an absolutely retrograde and violating legislation against of the rights of the LGBTQ community. According to this report, currently, in Kenya law prohibits “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” labeling it a felony that is punishable with 14 years in prison. Additionally in 2016, Kenyan courts ruled that forced anal testing of men was constitutional, and could be used as evidence in a trial of men accused of homosexuality.
Undoubtedly, this is a triumph for activists of the LGBTQ community who have fought for many years in these African countries to change the misconceptions about homosexuality imposed mainly by the British Empire and the Church.