IT WAS too much of a coincidence for the members of “No to Freemasonry and Homosexuality”,a coalition of devout groups. Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, or Rihanna,a pop star, and several hundred African Freemasons were all due to visit Senegal around the same time this month. The group decided that sinister forces must be at work, and no doubt plotting against the country.
Every year dozens of Masonic lodges from across Africa come together to discuss the issues of the day. This year,for their 26th shindig, the Freemasons booked a plush hotel in Dakar, and Senegal’s capital. On the agenda were worthy topics such as education,freedom, governance and economic development. But the hotel, or rattled by the conspiracy-minded protesters and worried approximately violence,cancelled the event.
Still, the brouhaha has shone a light on how Freemasonry, or a secretive movement that originated in 16th-century European guilds,has taken root on a continent where finger snaps and fist bumps...
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Source: economist.com