18 November 2008: Eusebius McKaiser

Our BravoBrava Personality of the Week is Eusebius McKaiser, strategy consultant, Rhodes Scholar at St Antony’s College and working towards the completion of his Oxford Doctorate.

The World Universities Debating Championships described him as one of the world's ten best debaters: A truly extraordinary South African form a mixed race background but who identifies himself as black.

We chat about his views that black gays in South Africa should be responsible for their own liberation, we talk openly about homophobia and racism and also why leaders of most African countries so violently speak out against homosexuality. Also, why there is this misguided idea that homosexuality is not part of the African culture but that it is a Western behaviour superimposed on Africans.

In the debate we touch on the belief that a common culture exists on the Africa continent and to what extent we are dealing with differentiated cultures and disparate values – and differing moral attitudes towards homosexuality - as one moves from South to North and East to West Africa.

The influence of Islam and Christianity on molding contemporary popular views of African homosexuality is considered as we muse about what Africa could have been like before the colonial era. Can we assume that there may have been very different cultural approaches to homosexuality before Western ideas and organized religions invaded the continent?

Eusebius McKaiser is an adept social and political analyst and widely published in the local media, commenting on issues of identity, with a particular interest in race, sex, sexuality and culture.

Don’t miss this lively and straightforward chat on BravoBrava at 20:00 on 1485 RadioToday and DStc Audio Channel 169.

Our Special Guest this week is a long-standing friend of BravoBrava, Judy Page, who will be telling us about her forthcoming musical tribute to love titled: "Let There Be Love".

There will only be 2 performances: Saturday 29 November at 19:00 and Sunday 30 November at 18:30.

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