When Eve* sat down to hear Sharon Slater, head of the Mormon group Family Watch International (FWI) speak, she didn’t expect to hear the star speaker at the Pan-African Conference on Family Values in Nairobi reference Hitler within minutes of taking the stage – along with the suggestion that international charities were looking to “come after” Africa’s children.
The event, hosted at the Boma Hotel in the summer, sparked protest and petitions calling for it to be cancelled. It is one of a flurry of conferences that took place in recent months across Africa – in greater numbers than activists have seen before.
