Clampdown on erotic literature

Officials raided a prestigious private school on Thursday to seize copies of British children's author Jacqueline Wilson's Love Lessons, notes a report on the News24 site. Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lokodo said the book exposed children attending the exclusive Greenhill Academy to sex too early. The school in the capital Kampala is popular with Uganda's elite and Western expatriates. ‘The books contained literature on sex and these books are not suitable for primary pupils,’ Lokodo said. His government last week said it ‘will continue to suppress’ the public activities of homosexuals and that a rehabilitation programme had been developed to allow them to ‘lead normal lives again’. As previously reported in Legalbrief, police earlier this month arrested about 20 people attending a gay pride event at a nightclub in Kampala. They were questioned and released hours later, although some said they had been assaulted by police officers. Lokodo said gay pride activities are being organised ‘with the influence of some foreign forces’.