Africa LGBTIQ – aid conditionality & LGBT Rights
From Paper Bird by Scott Long – “Resources for the unbelievers on aid conditionality and Africa LGBT Rights” I’ve been working desultorily (a beautiful word: say it slowly: it seems to capture being lazy but just alive enough to claim…
Anthropologie de la sexualité au Sénégal
From Senegal: An Anthropology of sexuality : philosophy, culture and social construction of gender in Senegal a paper by Cheikh Ibrahima Niang. Anthropologie de la sexualité : philosophie, culture et construction sociale du sexe au Sénégal ». C’est l’intitulé de la…
African LGBTIQ do not need a ‘get out of Africa’ escape route!
“Gays in Africa Need Our Support” by Melanie Judge, calls on the South African government to produce a counter narrative to the “homosexuality is unAfrican” being peddled by religious and cultural fundamentalists across the continent. Certain groups are creating opportunities…
The Day the African Commission Disavowed Humanity
The following article by Fikile Vilakazi and Sibongile Ndashe, was originally published in Pambazuka News, November 2010. The article is a response to the decision by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to deny observer status to the…
Neocolo Chop Chop {A Poem to Goody Jonatenn & 9Ja Kaki Lovers} {Poems of Resistance}
Neocolo Chop Chop As A look u so u be gay Dis na my chance to chop & Chop & chop sotay dem no Go say A no work, A no put Food for table, A no put roof Over…
Statement from the Wits University on Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Africa
MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL DATE: MONDAY, 3 MARCH 2014 STATEMENT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND PERTAINING TO ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY LEGISLATION IN AFRICA The University of the Witwatersrand notes with dismay and concern recent legislation in…
What is this protest about?
Pambazuka – Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now 02 Mar 14 President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious…
Femi Kuti Comes Out Against the Nigerian SSMB
From OKAY Africa, Femi Kuti joins his junior brother in condemning the Nigerian Same Sex Marriage Bill. He responds to those who ask if Fela would have supported this bill – the answer is Fela was at best ambivialant on…
Museveni’s politics & Uganda’s anti-homosexuality trap
From Erasing 76 Crimes ” Dont Cut Ties to Uganda: thats an anti-gay trap” an interesting perspectice on Museveni’s signing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, by Rev. Canon Dr. Kapya John Kaoma On February 24, the world woke up to the…
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The Central points of the Nigerian Same Sex Marriage [Prohibition Act] 2013
Human rights activist Joseph Sewedo highlights the main sections of the Nigerian SSMB and points out that all Nigerians are impacted by this law. 1. Homosexuality between men has been illegal in Nigeria for almost a century. And in northern…
Sexual Liquidation & Responsibility to Protect
The Rise of Sexual Liquidation by Joseph Sewedo Today, laws are being promulgated to heighten sexual liquidation in several parts of the world. The last few months have been very challenging for human rights activists/ advocates globally, especially activists committed…
Nollywood What? {Poems of Resistance}
Nollywood What? These are the stagnant waters of our time Big names propagated away for our minds Women rule the world men disrupted it After, “men in love” the gay theme dried up for good Men rule the world women…
Press release on the Implicatons of the SSMB Act 2013 on Human Rights in Nigeria
PRESS RELEASE ON THE IMPLICATION OF THE SAME SEX MARRIAGE [PROHIBITION] ACT 2013 ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN NIGERIA The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in Africa, Mrs Reine Alapini-Gansou, has taken note of the promulgation on 13 January…
Nigeria SSMB: unconstitutional, ambiguous, and a strange priority in a country with so many real problems
An excellent essay in which Chimananda Ngozi Adichie joins other high profile Nigerians in condemning the Same Sex Marriage Bill and extended criminalization of homosexuality. The law has led to vicious and humiliating attacks on men ‘suspected’ of being gay,…
Anti-Gay Laws and the Unification of Nigeria
From The Feminist Wire, an excellent article by Adejoke Tugbiyele “Sexual Identity and Nigerian Culture” which examines the challenges presented by the recently signed Same Sex Marriage Bill and the resulting explosion of homophobic violence across the country. “I spent…
Seun Kuti: “Why I think the gay community should come out”
Seun Kuti, son of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti and grandson to the women’s rights activist and trailblazer Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti speaks out against the new homophobic legislation passed in Nigeria. View the original text from OkayAfrica here. ‘Why…
Funmi Iyanda on the Nigerian Same Sex Marriage Bill
From Change a Life Nigeria, Funmi Iyanda on the Nigerian Same Sex Marriage Bill Founders Statement on the Same Sex Marriage Bill The Same Sex Marriage Prohibition law is an impractical, non-enforceable, abuse prone diversion from the clear and present…
Odi Massacre & Origins of Militancy in Ijawland
Kaiama – December 1998 Kaiama is a small town in Western Ijaw, about half an hour’s drive from Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State. Historically Kaiama is famous for being the birth place of Major Isaac Adaka Boro, an Ijaw…
US Expansionism by stealth: Militarism from Africa to the Pacific Islands
From Guernica – The Pivot to Africa. The US [AFRICOM] claims it has a limited military presence in Africa with just one military base in Djibouti however when each small ‘footprints’ is counted, we see the whole is alarmingly expansive….
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