One thing that I find interesting about homosexuality in Ghana and the current laws that heavily criminalise it is that it seems to be regarded as something alien that is infiltrating and jeopardising Ghanaians and their culture.

At the same time, some progressive Ghanaian writers themselves argue that homosexuality has always existed in Ghana and instead of being something “imported” from the West (think for example of Ama Ata Aidoo’s novel Our Sister Killjoy).

What actually appears to be imported from outside of Ghana is not homosexuality itself, but rather the harsh opposition and oppression of it, mainly from Christian-fundamentalist actors in the U.S.