The social history of a ‘moral panic’ in #Nigeria:
►http://africasacountry.com/social-history-of-a-moral-panic-in-nigeria
If you read the Nigerian press for the last year, outside of those moments in which an anti-gay bill is being discussed, there is little to no discussion of ‘gay men’ and even less about lesbians. There is no evidence that the ‘nation’ is under attack, at least not from that quarter. There is no evidence that ‘culture’ is being eroded from within by waves of sexual marauders. There is everything else, from super development and super highways to spectacular and ordinary violence. For Stuart Hall and his crew, the point of the 1972 British ‘moral panic’ was intensification of control, through the production of a manufactured crisis. It’s déjà vu all over again, but this is 2014, and it’s Nigeria’s time