Kenya and pornography
Source: The Star
Africa’s attitude towards adult pornography is quite lax for a continent famous for its largely religious citizens. Very few countries have any laws prohibiting activities relating to adult pornography.
However, there is a prevalence of laws on child pornography as contained in most enactments on cybercrime in line with the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime. Section 24 of Kenya’s Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act provides for this.
On the other hand, Kenyan law has no clear provisions for the sale, possession, and production of pornography; until now, it has done nothing to curb distribution online.
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