LGBTQ+ Has No Place in African Culture – Speaker Bagbin Reasserts Opposition
During a visit to Uganda, Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament denounces LGBTQ+ rights as foreign interference, reaffirming cultural and religious opposition to their recognition in Ghana.
- Speaker Bagbin rejects LGBTQ+ rights
- Warns against external influence
- Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill remains stalled,
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has once again voiced his unwavering stance against LGBTQ+ practices, insisting they will never be accepted or legalized in Ghana.
While on an official visit to Uganda, Bagbin underscored that LGBTQ+ identities and behaviors are incompatible with Ghana’s cultural and moral values. He described efforts to normalize such practices as attempts to impose foreign ideologies on African societies.
“We must resist this imposition,” Bagbin declared. “The world they are trying to force upon us will not take root here. LGBTQ+ is neither African nor natural—it is not of God.”
His remarks come amid ongoing legal and political debates over LGBTQ+ rights across the continent, including in Ghana, where Parliament passed an anti-LGBTQ+ bill during its 8th session.
However, the bill did not receive presidential assent before the term ended. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo neither signed it into law nor forwarded it to the Supreme Court, though private citizens have since challenged its constitutionality. With no ruling yet from the Court, the bill expired with the end of the parliamentary session.
