Maybe or not, either imposed or not. The view of pansexuality is beyond sex or gender and the feeling can just be said to be a general romantic feelings. In Africa, the belief is that all mammals should follow the trend of reproduction and that the most essential of creating affection is to reproduce sexually offspring of the same kind.

Religion supports this as well and that's why it is easy for African parents not to support anything that said a man should fall in love with either a man or woman.