A New Scramble for Africa: Foreign Actors and Fake De-Colonization
(…)In all the events undermining the human rights, dignity, and access to healthcare of Africans described above, there is a foreign footprint, or rather, multiple foreign footprints. The most widely reported has been the footprint of the US Christian Right, specifically Sharon Slater of Family Watch International (FWI), who was famously in a bilateral meeting with Madame Kagame in March 2023, appearing to take over where Scott Lively had left off in providing external validation for a cruel piece of legislation targeting an already marginalized group (…)
Written by Neil Datta, executive director at the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. The Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation would like to thank Neil Datta for the kind permission to publish this text.
