African leaders have gathered this week to discuss the continent's human rights situation, but Ghanaian deputy attorney general, Kwame Osei-Prempeh made sure his people know that gays don't count as human.

Employing an especially quaint term - "homosexualism" - Prempeh insisted that while other countries may coddle the queers, Ghana's not reversing its anti-gay ways:

He explained that charters and international conventions that recognize homosexualism do not override national laws. For that reason the Criminal Code of 1960, which outlaws homosexualism is incontrovertible.
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Prempeh said unnatural carnal knowledge is an illegal act under the Criminal Code as per section 104, and homosexualism, without any equivocation, is a form of unnatural carnal knowledge.

Section 104(2) explains, "Unnatural carnal knowledge is sexual intercourse with a person in an unnatural manner or with an animal."

Prempeh's statements echo the Ghana government's declaration last year, in which they claimed: "[The] government does and shall not condone any such activity which violently offends the culture, morality and heritage of the people of Ghana." Yet, they continue to speak the colonial tongue: English. How queer...

Ghana: No Room for Gays And Lesbians [All Africa]