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Title Being Gay and African: A Contradiction in Being?
Full text https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2022.2035248; http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/38105
Date 2022
Author(s) Ajei, M.O.
Abstract Research Article - Discussion of sexuality in African cultures has a long history, but since the 1990s ethical reflections on homosexuality on the continent have often degenerated into furors and provoked a spate of anti-gay legislation in several countries. Refutations of homophobic dispositions encounter as barrier a pervasive belief in African cultures, that childbearing for community replenishment is a cherished moral duty. Several philosophers consider these to be exaggerated inhibitions that unjustifiably impede social acceptance of homosexuality, and have proposed as a solution what they consider to be self-justifying political-moral principles, that terminate in value-pluralistic ideas such as the acceptance of the equality of sexual orientations and vindication of the right to the freedom to choose and satisfy sexual desire. I question the adequacy of such self-justificatory normative principles and consider the solutions they proffer as depreciating the moral point of the African pro-natalist position. Consequently, I develop a moral argument grounded in the ontology of Kwame Gyekye's moderate communitarian theory of personhood as the most persuasive justification for homosexuality.
Language en
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group
Type of publication Article
Format application/pdf
Repository Accra - University of Ghana
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