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The last few weeks have witnessed intensive homophobic rhetoric across the Ghanaian media landscape in response to news of a fundraising, office inauguration, and rights advocacy event by the Ghanaian LGBTQI+ community in January. The “dress rehearsal” for the current situation occurred in 2019, when the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values (comprising the Christian council, traditional leaders, the Catholic Bishops Conference, Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, Atta Mills Institute, Coalition of Muslim Organizations, and others) rose against proposals to include Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the Ghanaian school curriculum arguing that it was an attempt to promote LGBTQI+ rights in Ghana. The government buckled under the pressure and the proposals were dropped, but the scale of misconceptions peddled at the time and in the ongoing saga demonstrates the sore need for sexuality education and advocacy in Ghana.
Many are Happy About President Nana Afuko-Addo Re-election
In light of Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo’s re-election for a second term in office on Wednesday a result his rival John Mahama s camp said it would appeal, supporters of the president’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) are celebrating the win.
Prince Ofori, an NPP Supporter, is ecstatic to know his chosen president will stay in office, NDC, the opposition party. We have retired them. They don t have anything to do anymore. We are the government in power, our president Nana Akufo Addo. The champion president. The number one.
According to the electoral commission, Akufo-Addo received 51.59% of the vote in the presidential race beating opposition leader and former president Mahama s 47.36%.