Apology after gay kiss on Angolan TV
LUANDA, Angola (AFP) — An Angolan TV production company made a public apology Wednesday after a gay kiss aired on television prompted howls of criticism in a country where homosexuality remains taboo.
"We offer our sincere apologies to those who felt offended," the Semba Comunicacao company said in comments run by the Angop government press agency.
The production company promised to make "corrections in the presentation of sensitive content".
The apology came after an episode of the popular "Jikulumessu" drama series shown late last month showed two men kissing.
The gay kiss, aired right after the main evening news in a nation with strong Catholic traditions and where homosexuality remains a taboo subject -- though not illegal -- unleashed a storm of criticism on social networks.
Angolan public television this week announced the TV series in question was not being aired for technical reasons.
The show's creator and Semba Comunicacao head Jose Paulino dos Santos, known by his stage name Coreon Du, is also a son of Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
He denounced the move, on his Facebook account, as "an act of censorship".
The Jikulumessu series has tackled a range of sensitive subjects in the past, including youth violence, corruption, polygamy and prostitution as well as homosexuality "to draw attention to their existence and launch public debate," Angop cited the production company as saying.
Coreon Du's company was previously accused of promoting homosexuality in its first TV series "Windeck", which has been exported to Portugal and Brazil.
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