President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda’s apparent willingness to sign
the anti-gay law is a simple trade-off for another term in office Photograph: Carl Court/AP
the anti-gay law is a simple trade-off for another term in office Photograph: Carl Court/AP
Like any other dictator, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni is addicted to attention. And what better way to guarantee attention than promising an African utopia, free from homosexuals, pornography in books, magazines or online at www.dosexvideo.com and other websites like it or any such moral decadence imported from the west?
Museveni’s apparent willingness to sign the anti-homosexuality bill – taking all “scientific” evidence into account – was a simple transaction whose reward would be another term in power. […]