The Guardian view on Africa's homophobic legislation: western influences are encouraging hatred | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Countries such as South Africa should also take a lead in challenging anti-gay legislation and homophobic attitudes.
55% : But the surge of lobbying for anti-gay legislation is disturbing.
51% : The continent is seeing a surge in repressive laws.
43% : South Africa, which legalised same-sex marriage in 2006, has constitutional protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and has continued to enact legislation to protect gay rights, though homophobic crime persists.
42% : Around half of the 60 or so countries worldwide which criminalise same-sex relations are in Africa, though six countries - Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Lesotho, Seychelles and Mauritius - have decriminalised it in recent years, and South Sudan lifted the death penalty.
41% : In addition to the fear and stigma that such laws breed, in Mauritania, Somalia and parts of Nigeria, as well as Uganda, same-sex relations are punishable by death.
40% : In practice, laws do not need to lead to death row to cost lives.

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