By Mongezi Mhlongo (BTM Reporter)

NIGERIA  - NORTH AFRICA - November 20, 2008: With the media perplexing lives of gay people in Nigeria, the government their plans to clamp down on them.

This comes after Nigeria’s State and Federal governments announced to arrest all homosexuals and to ‘bring them to book,’said Rev Jide Macaulay of the House of Rainbow Metropolitan Community. Macaulay’s church was closed two months ago after the media in the country claimed it was an exclusively homosexuals church.

SOUTH AFRICA – 9 December 2008: South Africans are still prejudiced about homosexuals despite having some of the most progressive legislation in the world, with 80% of the population believing that sex between lesbians or gay men is wrong, according to a study commissioned by the Human Sciences Research Council.

This is in line with another comparative study, which examined the attitudes of 40 countries to homosexuality, according to researchers Benjamin Roberts and Prof Vasu Reddy.