The New Yorker is quick to malign African Anglicans and wrong on the facts. Note below:
“The so-called ‘Western’ provinces-the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-began ordaining women as early as 1974, twenty years before England had a female priest. In Africa, where half the world’s Anglicans now live, the strongest ongoing tradition of female priests is in South Africa-in large part owing to the powerful liberalizing influence of Desmond Tutu, the country’s former Archbishop. Nigeria and Uganda, which together account for twenty-five million of Africa’s Anglicans, have been hostage to two radically patriarchal archbishops and have been openly schismatic since the ordination of women began.”
Not true. The Anglican Church of Uganda as well as the Anglican churches of Burundi, Kenya, West Africa, and Rwanda all ordain women as priests. See here.
The New Yorker could use a better fact checker, but attending to facts would make it harder to smear conservative Anglicans as “radically patriarchal.”
The real reason for the “mistake” and SMEAR is that the archbishops of Nigeria and Uganda BOTH oppose the GAY agenda.