Published in: January-February 2015 issue.
Namibia’s Rainbow Project:
Gay Rights in an African Nation
by Robert Lorway
Indiana University Press. 182 pages, $24.
THE BASIC STORY of Namibia’s Rainbow Project is the impact of efforts by Western activists in Namibia after President Nujoma’s attacks on “gays, lesbian and common criminals,” which unleashed a wave of political homophobia from the mid-1990s on.
