Issue 95

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Owia Bulletin for Social Work and Development (Issue 95)
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From our blog

Thousands of books on homosexuality banned in the USA to avoid indoctrination, Africa should do more

In the USA, thousands of books were banned in 20231 (and before) for misinforming their society, especially children. Parents, community leaders,academics and politicians have initiated and supported these bans. Most of the books have characters who are homosexual (gay or lesbian) or in Global North terminology, they are LGBT (meaning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual). These books promote sex or gender ‘change’, sex or marriage of men and men and sex or marriage of women and women. The books are usually written by LGBT writers, advocates or organisations and often have images or text that is sexually explicit. They are banned from school and public libraries, and removed from syllabi. The trend of banning books is increasing.

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