Certainly the African countries have been more "conservative" overall, but the fact that we're surprised if there's some reaction in the Novus Ordo regarding basic issues of not even moral theology but of natural law says more about how far things have gone than it is a positive development. Many African countries have tough laws on the books against sodomy, so this is not one the Bergoglio's going to get a whole lot of traction on in Africa. It's only in the West (US, Europe, and to a lesser extent Latin America) that the pro-sodomite agenda has been active and flourishing for the past couple of decades.
Unfortunately, however, this Hegelian dialectic is part of how they're working the destruction of the Church. People now look back on Wojtyla, who did uphold Catholic teaching about moral theology (by way of lip service, while doing absolutely nothing about it), as this great conservative and Traditionalist. But in terms of dogmatic theology, Wojtyla was probably the greatest purveyor of religious indifferentism ever to claim the papal office. And that is where the Conciliar conservatives falter every time ... even if they're orthodox in every other respect ... in imbibing "Saint" John Paul II the Great Wojtyla's religious indifferentism.