The Guardian Comment
27 January 2011 11:25PM
I am sorry to hear of the death of David Kato. I was a teacher in the Senior School in Mukono from 1966/67, employed locally, but introduced to the school through the Anglican Church of Uganda. I am also sorry to see that there have apparently been a spate of killings of homosexual people in Mukono. The colonial laws on homosexuality which Uganda inherited at Independence need to be re-thought. By coincidence it was the year that I left Uganda that the laws against homosexuality in England began to be abolished. It really is time Uganda did the same. They are essentially British laws, not African. However, to bring Uganda's laws into the 21st Century lawmakers need to listen to the academics at Makerere, not the 'Rolling Stone'.
