Gay, NewsletterKenneth WebbNovember 01, 2021Ghana - A Precipitous Path, President Nelson Mandela, 'skunk of the world', Inaugural Address May 10 1994, GLBTQ, LGBT, Liverpool Dispatch 134, the skunk of the world, LGBT ~ LGBTQ ~ GLBTQ

Ghana ~ A Precipitous Path

LGBTQ

Liverpool

Electric Shock Therapy

SOME GHANIANS, in order to uphold family values, insist that gay people should receive electric shock therapy.

I wonder if Ghanaians are aware of the torture methods - hidden behind the word ‘rendition’ - applied to the inmates of Guantanamo Bay. Likewise, by other autocratic and totalitarian regimes?

Ghanaians seek to enact a law in order to legalise torture, perhaps unwittingly.

During Apartheid, South Africa passed through a very evil times, as we all know; so dark, that when he took office, President Nelson Mandela spoke to all South Africans in his inaugural address as President of South Africa on May 10, 1994, when he concluded his speech with this chilling warning:

“...never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.”

— President Nelson Mandela, May 10, 1994 in his Inaugural Speech

Ghana, if it enacts torture against the LGBT+ ~ LGBTQ ~ GLBTQ community will show that it, too, has become “the skunk of the world”.

First written 1 November 2021

Kenneth Webb

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.