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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Apr 17

    British Prime Minister Theresa May says she "deeply regrets" the UK's role in introducing anti-gay laws in its former colonies. "I am all too aware that these laws were often put in place by my own country. They were wrong then and they are wrong now." https://bbc.in/2H5pHcJ pic.twitter.com/TBOAduJWwf

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      2. nicholas yk quarshie‏ @kojoniclas Apr 17
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @akwasisarpong

        I do believe is not the British who brought these laws as our culture (Ghana) frown on gay and lesbian. But i need more education on it. Was is it the British who introduced those laws or they just enforce it then?

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. MumbiMalohkeh‏ @wairimuKMM Apr 17
        Replying to @kojoniclas @BBCAfrica @akwasisarpong

        Here's some evidence that goes against what you believe:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201707/gender-variation-and-same-sex-relations-in-precolonial-times …

        4 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      4. Kojo Owiredu Kissi I‏ @kissikojo Apr 17
        Replying to @wairimuKMM @kojoniclas and

        Now, this picks up isolated cases in Africa and calls them "culturally sanctioned". These acts were frowned on by the people and the norms of the greater society. That some king or warrior was involved in an unsubstantiated isolated case doesn't make a general case for Africa.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      5. MumbiMalohkeh‏ @wairimuKMM Apr 17
        Replying to @kissikojo @kojoniclas and

        The Kong's case is not unsubstantiated, it's well documented. This is in response to homosexuality is unAfrican. It clearly isn't. Whether people approve or not is an entirely different issue

        4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. nicholas yk quarshie‏ @kojoniclas Apr 17
        Replying to @wairimuKMM @kissikojo and

        Homosexuality is simply unAfrican...

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      7. End of conversation
      1. AlphaFemale‏ @alpha_orikaeze1 Apr 17
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        You lumped ppl with different cultures and religions together for economic gains and the terrible effects of this amalgamation is still being felt. Now you are casually saying sorry. 😒

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      2. Kojo Owiredu Kissi I‏ @kissikojo Apr 17
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Of all the colonial havocs, abuses and the neocolonial economic and political subversion that has brought untold hardships to Africa and contributing immensely to the migrant crisis even in Europe, @theresa_may could only regret gay laws? Now that's regrettable!

        1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes
      3. Samuel Chibale‏ @ChibaleSamuel Apr 17
        Replying to @kissikojo @BBCAfrica @theresa_may

        seriously regrettable

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Tumi‏ @AudioMonkeyNg Apr 17
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        What about the cruel exploitation, slave trading , economic instability caused by the UK in its formal colonies?... No comments on that?

        1 reply 3 retweets 12 likes
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      2. siboniso matsebula‏ @ugaG_M Apr 17
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        The question now is, why have the former colonies THEMSELVES not changed these laws? Or do they share the same legal outlook as their former colonial master?

        6 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Mwesigye Job‏ @JobMwesigye Apr 17
        Replying to @ugaG_M @BBCAfrica

        These laws are attached to foreign aid, they change them they don't get the aid.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. MasterMind‏ @brakwaku Apr 17
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        I don't think it's the British that brought such anti gays laws into some of their former colonies, most of every culture frowns on it, madam PM plz don't take this credit too

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      3. Kenne Mwikya‏ @KenneMwikya Apr 17
        Replying to @brakwaku @BBCAfrica

        Tell me more, historian of all African cultures

        1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
      4. MasterMind‏ @brakwaku Apr 17
        Replying to @KenneMwikya @BBCAfrica

        Most of African culture doesn't, haven't said I know all but most doesn't allow it

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. lelo.‏ @lelowhatsgood Apr 17
        Replying to @brakwaku @KenneMwikya @BBCAfrica

        You’re wrong.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Kenne Mwikya‏ @KenneMwikya Apr 17
        Replying to @lelowhatsgood @brakwaku @BBCAfrica

        Congratulations on your NYT byline BTW

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. janelilac‏ @lilacjohn Apr 17
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Oh please May! Let’s talk about slavery and colonialism and not “anti gay” laws in former colonies. The cultures of those colonies never permitted it to begin with (perhaps except Thailand and its ladyboy culture).

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
      3. Kenne Mwikya‏ @KenneMwikya Apr 17
        Replying to @lilacjohn @BBCAfrica

        Please expound, expert of both African and Thai culture

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
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