Gay community in konongo, ghana

The judgment comes at a time when the country is engulfed in a debate over a dangerous anti-LGBT law which would take persecution of sexual and gender minorities and their allies even further. Yet, violence against LGBT people is prevalent , and persecution has escalated in recent years with debates about the bill. Prince Obiri-Korang, a law lecturer at the University of Ghana, initiated the suit to overturn the law. With this ruling, the court has expanded the interpretation of Section 1 b , apparently adopting language from the anti-LGBT Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, , which specifically prohibits a person, in clause four, from engaging in any acts that undermine the proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values.

Some residents of Konongo Zongo were joyous on Saturday when Black Sherif was adjudged the Artiste of the Year at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards VGMA. Those who had stayed up to watch the event took to the streets a little after 2 am jumping and celebrating their young talented act. The residents were captioned in a video shared on social media praising Black Sherif for his achievements on the night. Scenes from Konongo Zongo after Black Sherif was announced Artist of the Year.

Richard Ammon. Intro: Three stories from Ghana reveal the repression and fear that gay people live with in their personal lives, on the streets, and accessing health care. There seems no room for discussion or tolerance in this homophobic Christian and Islamic culture. Cam is a South african who travels to Ghana on business and had this to say about gay life there.

Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo is yet to sign the bill into law, as he awaits the outcome of two ongoing legal challenges to the proposed law at the country's Supreme Court. Human rights activist Alex Kofi Donkor told DW that the timing of the bill couldn't have been worse for members of his community. For this bill to have taken shape and taken hold of the Ghanaian society, whereby it has gone through parliament and gone through the executive arm of government and now to the judiciary level, really goes to challenge our existence as Ghanaians, and it is challenging our democracy in various ways," Donkor told DW. Some people even suffered violence as a result of this.